Just A Dream | Literacy Unit
A literacy unit companion to the picture book Just a Dream (by Chris Van Allsburg), building comprehension skills including prediction, main idea/details, cause and effect, character feelings, and reflective writing.
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A literacy unit companion to the picture book Just a Dream (by Chris Van Allsburg), building comprehension skills including prediction, main idea/details, cause and effect, character feelings, and reflective writing.
A reading comprehension activity built around the short story 'The Lucky Blue Socks': students read the story, then use organizer/sorting cards to identify title, author, characters, setting, problem, solution, and important vs. not-important details.
A set of 'Key Details' discussion cards, each naming a well-known children's picture book (e.g. Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!, The Kissing Hand, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Fancy Nancy, Wemberly Worried, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Stephanie's Ponytail, Green Eggs and Ham), used to prompt students to ask and answer key-detail comprehension questions…
A set of open-ended question cards used after reading a story or discussing a topic aloud, to confirm student understanding of key details and story elements and to prompt requesting clarification when something is not understood.
Provides a kite-themed craft-and-writing template that pairs a guided writing prompt with a coloring/craft activity.
A-Z Playdough Letters – Kneating Fun - Alphabet A-/ Introduce a fun and interactive way for preschoolers, first graders, and students in special education to engage with letters and sounds through our A-Z Playdough Mats.
Explore Kwanzaa this this Kwanzaa Lapbook with Reading Comprehension Activities, a helpful tool for 4th to 6th grade primary level learners, EFL/ESL students, and home schoolers.
This activity is great for helping your students to understand and use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future tenses, in line with Common Core standards.
This activity will help your students understand figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings. It is a great way to help them prepare for the L.3.5 Common Core test .
This activity is great for helping students determine the meaning of unknown or multiple meaning words, which is in line with the L.4.4 Common Core standard.
This L.5.3 Common Core Activity is perfect for helping students expand, combine, and reduce sentences for meaning, reader/listener interest, and style.
Product: Labor Day Lapbook with Reading Comprehension Activities Converse the spirit of Labor Day and the significance it holds within American history through the compelling teaching resource, Labor Day Lapbook with Reading Comprehension…
A card game for practicing reading sight-word phrases, ladybug-themed.
Bring Roald Dahl's classic, "Lamb to the Slaughter" to life for students with a case study and investigation of this cold case! Students become the detectives while close reading the text and completing literary analysis!
A no-prep, 5-day Kindergarten end-of-school-year ELA packet (teacher guide, student worksheets, and answer key as separate files) combining literacy skill review with reflective/celebratory last-week-of-school activities.
Let your learners explore the inspiring tale of Lazarus with this Lazarus Lapbook Project! Made for Grade 4, 5 and 6 students, homeschoolers, and EFL / ESL learners, this special project is a definite treasure for your reading classes and…
Discover the enchanting beauty of autumn with our interactive Fall Leaf Activities Bundle! Designed specifically for teachers in the Northeast, this engaging educational resource blends science, math, and language arts in a way that keeps young learners excited and motivated.
A phonics game resource (same Guinea Pig Education series) reinforcing the 'ck' ending sound through Bingo and Snap card games.
A Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary teaching resource of reproducible group lessons and individual activities to build early sight-word/vocabulary skills.
A Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary teaching resource (volume 2 in the series) of reproducible group lessons and individual activities for vocabulary development.
A Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary teaching resource (volume 3 in the series) of reproducible group lessons and individual activities targeting grades 1-3.
A bundled teacher's guide of hands-on phonics and literacy activities using physical letter tiles (for alphabet/phonics skills) and word tiles (for sentence building and grammar).
An interactive read-aloud book companion for Merrilee Liddiard's picture book 'Leif and the Fall,' providing a large set of differentiated comprehension, vocabulary, and writing activities tied to the story.
Board-game format practice for determining the meaning of vocabulary words from context clues, themed around a St. Patrick's Day leprechaun searching for his pot of gold.