Circle of Gold Guided Reading

Dive your class into a reading of Island of the Blue Dolphins with this in-depth study guide. Breaking the novel into three parts, the resource begins each section with a focus activity that identifies a specific theme or question to be...

With What Do You See at the Pond?, young readers explore pond life and practice reading strategies. Learners first make predictions and then read the simple story independently. After a second read-through with a partner, kids come...

In this movie review worksheet, learners read through a movie guide and review. They then answer 6 questions about the information they reviewed.

Students discuss eating and picking peaches and participate in other pre-reading activities before reading the book, Juicy Peach. They read the book independently, but are guided by directive questions from their teacher. A discussion...

Readers are introduced to some of the conflicts that arose over land and resources in the Americas in a two-part cross-curricular comprehension worksheet that asks kids to study the article and then to use information provided to respond...

For this editing activity, students read and edit a short passage entitled, "Alaska, the 49th State." Students look for 10 errors in capitalization, punctuation, spelling and/or grammar.

Students participate in 8 guided reading sessions in which they read the novel, Circle of Gold, by Candy Dawson Boyd. They focus on and discuss characterization, synthesis, analysis, and predicting. They complete journal entries and...

In this reading comprehension activity, 3rd graders read a short entry that describes camels. They answer 4 questions based on the selection including a word unscramble, a multiple choice question, and circling the words camel or camels...

How do you figure out what a writing prompt is asking? That's the focus of the first in a series of seven lessons on narrative writing. Learners walk through dissecting a prompt's key words, determining whether to write a narrative or an...

Fourth graders explore U.S. history by writing diary entries. In this California gold rush lesson, 4th graders discuss the importance of the gold rush as part of the "manifest destiny" movement. Students participate in a role play...