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"Sylvester and the Magic Pebble" | Picture Book Study teaching resource preview
Phonics & word readingFluency & read-aloud

"Sylvester and the Magic Pebble" | Picture Book Study

A picture-book study companion for William Steig's Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, offering a large set of literacy, comprehension, and craft activities to use alongside a read-aloud of the book.

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Pre-K, 1
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Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 1 teaching resource preview
Early & developing readers

Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 1

Take part in a teacher-led guided reading lesson built around Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. (example picture book): warm-up/prediction discussion, shared or independent reading, and post-reading comprehension/discussion or writing activities focused on color/animal vocabulary, predictions…

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Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 3 teaching resource preview
Chapter-book lessons

Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 3

Take part in a teacher-led guided reading lesson built around Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (Chapter 1: "Before Breakfast"): warm-up/prediction discussion, shared or independent reading, and post-reading comprehension/discussion or writing activities focused on characters, setting, and vocabulary.

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3
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Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Kindergarten teaching resource preview
Early & developing readers

Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Kindergarten

Students review sight words and letter sounds, listen to a read-aloud while answering prediction/comprehension questions, play a sight-word flashcard/bingo game, read in small guided-reading groups by level, draw a picture and write a simple sentence using sight words, and participate in a wrap-up discussion.

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5 pages
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Pre-K–K
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All About Kangaroos: Guided Reading Level G with Lesson Plan teaching resource preview
Early & developing readers

All About Kangaroos: Guided Reading Level G with Lesson Plan

Whisper-read the leveled book while tracking print, learn and use target vocabulary (Australia, balance, pouch, joey, mob), answer comprehension questions with textual evidence, complete a word-work task (hop/hops), write and draw responses to sentence stems, and do an echo-reading fluency activity.

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Pre-K–2
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"Make Way For Ducklings" | Picture Book Study teaching resource preview
Phonics & word readingComprehension & inference

"Make Way For Ducklings" | Picture Book Study

A no-prep picture book study companion for Robert McCloskey's 'Make Way for Ducklings,' providing discussion questions, extension activities, crafts, and literacy worksheets tied to the book.

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Pre-K–1
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Guided Reading Activities and Lesson Plans Nonfiction Set 2 teaching resource preview Free download
Animals & nature nonfiction

Guided Reading Activities and Lesson Plans Nonfiction Set 2

For each of the 6 lessons (Red Pandas; Hoatzin; Moose; Vancouver; Recycling; The Atlantic Ocean), students answer pre-reading discussion questions, respond to during-reading prompts, learn and apply story vocabulary via vocabulary and vocabulary-question exercises, answer writing questions, complete a creative writing…

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6–7
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Letter P Activities Alphabet Worksheets & Kindergarten Phonics Pack teaching resource preview
Phonics & word readingResponse & discussion

Letter P Activities Alphabet Worksheets & Kindergarten Phonics Pack

A comprehensive letter-of-the-week activity pack for uppercase/lowercase P, covering recognition, tracing, phonics sorting, and craft-style review activities, provided in a US edition (British English edition also present per scan_meta).

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Pre-K–1
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igh Decodable Reading Book Level 1: 37 teaching resource preview Free download
Sentences & passages

igh Decodable Reading Book Level 1: 37

Practice sounding out target words (ball, kit, team, goal, slip, slips, lad) before reading, then read the decodable story containing those words in context.

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8 pages
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Pre-K–1
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"Brown Bear, Brown Bear" | Picture Book Study teaching resource preview
Phonics & word readingComprehension & inference

"Brown Bear, Brown Bear" | Picture Book Study

A print-and-go picture book study companion for Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle, combining discussion questions, hands-on crafts, and early literacy practice.

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Pre-K–1
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Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 2 teaching resource preview
Early & developing readers

Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 2

Take part in a teacher-led guided reading lesson built around Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel (example Level J-K book): warm-up/prediction discussion, shared or independent reading, and post-reading comprehension/discussion or writing activities focused on making predictions using text clues and…

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2
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Let's Read Emergent Readers Activity teaching resource preview
Sentences & passages

Let's Read Emergent Readers Activity

Students cut out and assemble the activity cards into a small stapled book, then read the emergent-reader text aloud with purpose, understanding, and fluency.

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Pre-K–1
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Letter S of the Week Alphabet Activities Hands-on Phonics Printables teaching resource preview
Phonics & word readingResponse & discussion

Letter S of the Week Alphabet Activities Hands-on Phonics Printables

Provide a large multi-activity letter-S practice pack covering recognition, tracing, sorting, phonics and fine-motor skills, in both a US-spelling and a British-English-spelling printable set, plus supplementary crafts and a digital activity.

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Multiple File Types
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Pre-K–1
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Sight Words Digger and Sand Matching Game teaching resource preview
Phonics & word readingVocabulary & language

Sight Words Digger and Sand Matching Game

Practice recognizing and matching 100 high-frequency ('pre-primer' through common Dolch/Fry-style) sight words using a construction-themed digger/sand matching activity for a literacy center.

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Pre-K–2
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Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 6 teaching resource preview
Chapter-book lessons

Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 6

Students discuss a warm-up question, learn pre-taught vocabulary, listen to a teacher read-aloud then finish the chapter independently, answer guiding and theme-discussion questions in small groups, draw a character sketch with descriptive words, create and swap word searches using vocabulary words, answer an…

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5 pages
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6
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CCVC Words Activity Packet teaching resource preview
Phonics & word readingGames & puzzles

CCVC Words Activity Packet

A phonics activity packet teaching CCVC (consonant-consonant-vowel-consonant) words through posters, worksheets, and games.

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Level
1–3
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Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 5 teaching resource preview
Chapter-book lessons

Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 5

Take part in a teacher-led guided reading lesson built around Matilda by Roald Dahl (Chapter 7: "Miss Honey"): warm-up/prediction discussion, shared or independent reading, and post-reading comprehension/discussion or writing activities focused on character motivation/inference, vocabulary building, and discussion of…

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5
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