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Central Idea Digital Game
A self-checking digital review game for practicing the 4 steps to finding the central idea and supporting details in a text.
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Groundhog Day | Emergent Reader and Activities
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.
Answers included
Writing & reflection
Letter Activity: I Spy Parts
A reading/writing genre-study activity where students identify which structural parts (date, greeting, body, closing/signature, etc.) are missing from sample friendly letters.
Sequencing & retelling
A Thanksgiving Escape Room for Elementary School
A 10-station Thanksgiving-themed escape-room activity (PowerPoint format) in which students solve a sequence of puzzles -- word unscrambles, matching, a number cipher, math word problems, riddles, a letter hunt, a word search, story sequencing, and a final riddle -- to find where the Thanksgiving feast has 'disappeared' to.
Answers included
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Writing & reflection
Character Development Digital Game
A self-checking digital (Google Slides) game where students cite evidence, answer questions, and build a paragraph about literary character development.
Writing & reflection
Interpreting Words + Phrases Digital Game
A self-checking digital game (hosted externally on Google Slides) that has students practice the 4 steps of citing evidence and interpreting words/phrases in a text, culminating in paragraph writing.
Fiction & book studies
Literary Devices: Theme Tree - FLASH-MAC
Literary Devices: Theme Tree - FLASH-MAC Literary Devices: Theme Tree - FLASH-MAC is a premium digital educational tool developed for teachers, offering an interactive method for students to delve into literature.
Inference & text evidenceFiction & book studies
Mardi Gras Fun | A Non-Fiction Literacy Unit
A non-fiction literacy unit that uses a short passage about Mardi Gras to teach before/during/after reading strategies, main idea and details, and vocabulary.
Inference & text evidence
NO PRINT Treasure Map Inferences for Distance Learning
NO PRINT Treasure Map Inferences for Distance Learning This innovative, digital teaching resource has been designed for both virtual and traditional classrooms.
Sequencing & retellingInference & text evidence
Nonfiction Terms Review: I Have, Who Has?
A review game ('I Have, Who Has?') that reinforces nonfiction/informational text vocabulary terms tied to Reading Informational (RI) standards.
Novel Study Guide: Wuthering Heights
Provide a multi-activity package (character relationships, genealogy/narrative structure, multiple-intelligences projects, a Jeopardy-style review game, and a character/plot schematic) for teaching Wuthering Heights.
Editable
Sequencing & retelling
Nursery Rhyme: Jack and Jill
An early-literacy center resource built around the nursery rhyme 'Jack and Jill', used to build phonemic awareness, story structure, retelling skills, vocabulary and cause-and-effect understanding.
Sequencing & retelling
Nursery Rhyme: One Two Buckle My Shoe
An early-literacy center resource built around the nursery rhyme 'One Two Buckle My Shoe', used to build phonemic awareness, story structure, retelling skills, vocabulary and cause-and-effect understanding.
Sequencing & retelling
Old Mother Hubbard Nursery Rhyme
A multi-activity nursery rhyme pack teaching early literacy skills (phonemic awareness, retelling, vocabulary, cause-and-effect) through 'Old Mother Hubbard'.
Inference & text evidence
Pizza Reading Comprehension Game
Reading comprehension practice: students read short descriptive passages about a character's pizza order and build a matching pizza from topping cutouts.
Nonfiction & informational textsWriting & reflection
Playful Penguins Unit
A cross-curricular reading/science unit teaching facts about penguins through a mini-reader, comprehension activities, and games.
Writing & reflection
Pom Pom At Christmas: A Fun Writing And Drawing Activity (6 years +)
A Christmas-themed narrative, vocabulary, and planning activity contrasting one family's excited Christmas preparations with another (the 'naughty dog' owner's) family's negative attitude, which is resolved by explaining the Christian religious meaning of Christmas as the birth of Jesus; also includes a December planning calendar, food…
Inference & text evidence
Reading Between The Lines Inference Activity
This activity is great for building students' inference skills. They will match the Statement Card to the Emotion Card to create a complete picture. This will help them understand the text better and draw their own conclusions.
Reading Comprehension: Memory Match Game - FLASH-MAC
Reading Comprehension: Memory Match Game - FLASH-MAC This is an interactive teaching resource designed for the facilitation of reading comprehension. It is geared towards Grade 5, 6, 7, or 8 students focusing on comprehension skill development in Language Arts. Packed into this software version (suited for Mac operating systems) are six matching pairs of…
Nonfiction & informational texts
Reading Skills Game Show
A Jeopardy-style review game (digital PowerPoint/Google Slides board plus a companion nonfiction reading passage) for reviewing reading skills: theme/central idea, development, point of view, text structure, and vocabulary.
Answers included
Editable
Romeo and Juliet Escape Room - Grade 9
The slides present five Romeo and Juliet puzzles, including a letter code, character matching, scrambled lines, a missing prologue word, and family sorting. Use them in sequence as a review activity and discuss the reasoning before revealing each answer slide. The file supplies the puzzle prompts and solutions; advance the slides yourself and keep each answer hidden until students have responded.
Romeo and Juliet Jeopardy
A Jeopardy-style PowerPoint review game covering Shakespeare's biography and Romeo and Juliet Acts 1-5, used to review key plot points, characters, and literary devices before an assessment.
Answers included
Editable
Smart Cookie Game! (A fast paced fun game!)
Product Description: The Smart Cookie Game ! is an engaging activity that helps students exercise their comprehension and strategizing skills in a fast-paced environment.
Sequencing & retelling
Thanksgiving Escape Room
Multi-station classroom escape room where students read a historical narrative, apply math/decoding skills, and solve puzzles about the first Thanksgiving to unlock a final online 'breakout' form.