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A guided reading lesson plan for Grade 1, built around the anchor text Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. (example picture book), targeting color/animal vocabulary, predictions from pictures, fluency through repetition and rhythm.
A guided reading lesson plan for Grade 3, built around the anchor text Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (Chapter 1: "Before Breakfast"), targeting characters, setting, and vocabulary.
A guided-reading lesson plan for Kindergarten built around a simple beginner-level book (referenced as "The Cat and the Hat" or similar), focused on phonics, sight-word recognition, and reading comprehension.
A science/literacy mini-unit teaching that pine trees are evergreens with needles instead of leaves and cones instead of flowers, paired with differentiated decodable reading passages for guided reading practice on the same topic.
A guided-reading worksheet built around Helen Keller's essay 'The Greatest Day', introducing her biography, vocabulary, comprehension, critical thinking, and an extension writing activity.
A guided-reading novel study for 'Because of Winn-Dixie' that teaches the Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) comprehension strategy (Right There, Think and Search, Author and Me, On My Own) and applies it chapter-by-chapter through the novel.
Free download A phonics workbook from the 'Reading Made Simple' program focused on the 'igh' sound, combining word-picture matching, guided reading of a passage, drawing, spelling/writing, proofreading practice, and a phonics game.
A set of 3 leveled Reader's Theatre scripts about Martin Luther King Jr. (modified, regular, and enriched reading levels) for differentiated small-group fluency and social-studies practice.
This companion offers thirty activities to select around a read-aloud of Big Red Lollipop. Students explore predictions, story elements, sequencing, character traits and feelings, theme and perspective. Rubina, Sana and Ami receive individual character pages. Opinion writing and a final book review extend responses, while teacher tips support pacing across multiple sessions. The picture book is not included.
An early reader booklet (#9 in a Guided Reading Level A series) that teaches emergent readers to recognize sight words and read simple repetitive sentence patterns.
An early reader booklet (#10 in a Guided Reading Level A series) using real photos to teach noun recognition and sight-word reading for emergent readers.
A differentiated language-arts unit built around the 'Beauty and the Beast' fairy tale, providing the same story at four reading levels plus non-fiction texts on the tale's history and origin author, to match reading materials to individual student readiness.
A Level N (Third Grade) guided-reading biography of Clara Barton that builds reading comprehension and vocabulary while teaching about the founding of the American Red Cross.
An AAC-focused shared-reading book companion for the picture book 'Thanksgiving Rules' by Laurie Friedman, providing core-vocabulary supports and literacy extension activities for students with complex communication needs.
Novel Study Guide: Harrison Bergeron This is a comprehensive teaching resource designed to help students better understand the short story, "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut.
Provide a language, literacy, and AAC/communication-focused companion to the picture book 'The School Bus Driver from the Black Lagoon' by Mike Thaler, for students with emergent literacy or complex communication needs.
Support shared reading of the picture book 'My Friend Rabbit' by Eric Rohmann with language, literacy, and AAC (augmentative and alternative communication) activities focused on a target letter, core vocabulary, comprehension, and story retelling.
Reading Comprehension Strategies 1 The Reading Comprehension Strategies 1 is a teaching aid which aims to enhance the reading skills of students in grades 1-5.
This resource is a Catch a Leprechaun Book and Rhymes Game. First, there is an 8-page reader that can be printed 1 per page or 2 per page.
A comprehension companion unit for the picture book 'Goggles!' by Ezra Jack Keats, teaching students to identify problem and solution in a narrative.
Mo Willems is the author of the Pigeon book series. The books contain large amounts of vocabulary designed for k-2nd graders. However, the pictures are so simple and adorable, they can be enjoyed by people of all ages.
An emergent reader booklet about a groundhog checking for its shadow, with two alternate endings (sees shadow / doesn't see shadow), plus companion pre/during/after-reading activities.
A fold-up (trifold pamphlet) book-report/reading-response activity keyed to the novel "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddux, teaching five reading strategies (making connections, using context clues, making inferences, creating images/visualization, and evaluation) across five reading sections of the book.
A fold-up (trifold pamphlet) book-report/reading-response activity keyed to the novel "Ghosts Do Splash in Puddles" by Marsha Thorton Jones & Debbie Dadey, teaching five reading strategies (making connections, using context clues, making inferences, creating images/visualization, and evaluation) across five reading sections of the book.