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Balanced literacy Common Core L.3.3a resources
Word Choice Task Cards BUNDLE
This fun and engaging WORD CHOICE bundle includes these products (also sold separately) from my TpT store:
-Word Choice task cards (2 sets of 24 differentiated task cards)
-MORE Word Choice task cards (32 task cards)
These mini-lessons and task cards align with the Common Core Language Standards for Grades 2 - 4, but could also be used for review or intervention in Grade 5.
Here are the details on what's included in this file:
5 BONUS Word Choice Mini-Lessons (for any time of year)
-Banishing
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2nd - 4th
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Literacy Centers YEAR LONG Bundle 3rd Grade
This YEAR-LONG Literacy Center pack has everything you need to successfully run engaging and effective literacy centers. There are materials for 5 different centers: independent reading, reading response, shared reading, word study, and writing. What's Included Inside This Bundle● Detailed teacher directions● Examples of completed pages● Developmentally appropriate reading, writing, and word study activities● Engaging centers that can be used again and againThese centers follow the same set-
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3rd
Finding Your Voice in Writing {Task Cards}
Helping students find their voice in writing can be one of the most difficult things to teach! These 28 task cards are designed to give students concrete ways to bring out their unique voice by...--providing a situation to include feelings and clues to those feelings--writing scenes with vivid verbs and sensory language--using dialogue to convey specific feelings--thinking about purpose and audienceThere are many ways you can use these task cards in yourclassroom, including:- teaching or reteach
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2nd - 5th
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Vocabulary Google Docs Worksheets Bundle | Context Clues Homophones Synonyms
Lighten your workload with these easy-to-use vocabulary worksheets. With questions based on CCSS standards for Grades 3-4, feel at ease as you can practice a range of vocabulary questions with the knowledge that nearly all of the work will be done for you.INCLUDES:Context Clues, Defining Words, Fill the Blanks, Homophones, SynonymsVocabulary Review:The product includes 27 tests, and each test contains 23-25 MCQ questions. Questions have three answer choices. There are a handful of pictures on ea
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3rd - 4th
Folktale Passages with Tall Tales, Figurative Language Lessons and Dioramas
Students read five folktales about famous tall tale legends. Each passage features a different figurative language lesson. As a culminating activity, kids create engaging pop-up book dioramas. Read about Paul Bunyan, Johnny Appleseed, John Henry, and Pecos Bill while studying hyperbole, idioms, metaphors, similes, and personification. I have also added a lesson about Davy Crockett, which introduces the genre of folklore to your students. Each of these heroes has their own lesson, complete with a
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2nd - 4th
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Word Choice Writing Task Cards {2 Sets of Differentiated Task Cards}
Are you looking for a way to help your students improve their word choice? This product includes 2 sets of 24 task cards designed to provide differentiated practice, and they're perfect for any type of writing... nonfiction/informational, personal narrative, realistic fiction, fantasy, etc.These task cards can be used for small group practice, independent practice, in literacy centers, when students finish other work, or for homework.Both sets of Word Choice task cards focus on making “boring” w
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2nd - 4th
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Pecos Bill - Tall Tale Activities on Personification
Study Pecos Bill while learning about personification. A tall tale passage about Pecos Bill is included in this lesson. Students will learn what personification is, and practice finding it. This is a great reading comprehension lesson on personification. This lesson is also great for close reading. At the end of the lesson there is an activity that lets children create their own beautiful foldable pop-up books of Pecos Bill.Happy customers have said: * "This was really useful for my tall ta
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2nd - 4th
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Fill the Blanks Google Forms | Nouns Verbs Adjectives | Digital Resources
Benefit your vocabulary test preparation lessons with this Google Forms fill the blanks product. With most of the work already done for you, feel free to use this fill the blanks pack in several different ways knowing you can focus on the results, not the grading! Focus Areas:How Adjectives Work in Sentences, How Nouns Work in Sentences, How Verbs Work in Sentences, Frequently Mistaken Words.Fill the Blank Review:The product includes 6 tests, and each test contains 25 MCQ questions. Questions ha
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3rd - 4th
Bat Loves the Night (Compatible with 3rd Grade Journeys)
Ten activities based on Bat Love the Night (Compatible with 3rd grade Journeys). Activities include:
vocabulary words and definitions, syllable sort, writing, answering questions from the text, adding er/or suffixes, adding ed, identifying verbs, sequencing events, er/or scavenger hunt, writing, and combining sentences.
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3rd
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Vivid Verbs {Alternative Words for “Asked” and “Said”}
Tired of your students using the same "asked" and "said" in their writing? Do you want them to use varied word choice in their speaking and writing, and understand shades of meaning?
This product includes a set of 24 task cards and three word sorts to help your students learn the shades of meaning for more than 15 different options for “asked” and “said”. This will help students learn precise language for speaking and listening, writing, and reading. (Student response page included.)
Synonyms
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2nd - 5th
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Dragons Love Tacos Lessons and Activities Pack
This popular children's book by Adam Rubin is a great springboard to several reading and writing lessons designed with the older elementary student in mind. Lessons that teach critical vocabulary and skills for the common core in a fun and interesting way will keep your students' attention.
Nine different activities to choose from!
-Listening Word Hunt
-Write a Tacos Acrostic Poem
-Let's Taco 'Bout It Summary ( 2 choices)
-Writing Dialogue
-Read and Understand a Salsa Recipe with Questions and
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3rd - 5th
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Tops and Bottoms (Compatible with 3rd Grade Journeys)
Ten activities to complement Tops and Bottoms and practice Common Core Standards! This packet is compatible with the same story in the third grade Journeys basal.
Activities include:
questioning, syllable sort, definitions, sequencing, homophone hunt, opinion writing, informational writing, literal and non-literal language, word choice, punctuating quotations, and comparing and contrasting for informational writing.
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3rd
Vocabulary Google Forms Bundle Context Clues Homophones Synonyms Defining Words
Challenge your students with this sizeable vocabulary Google Forms bundle. Review vocabulary freely with these forms knowing most of the work is already done for you! Pages are packed with color and questions are based on Common Core standards.INCLUDES:Context Clues, Defining Words, Fill the Blanks, Homophones, SynonymsVocabulary Review:The product includes 27 tests, and each test contains 23-25 MCQ questions. Questions have three answer choices. There are a handful of pictures on each test, as
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3rd - 4th
Let the Children March Read Aloud and Supplementary Activities Distance Learning
Common Core Aligned Let the Children March, by Monica Clark-Robinson Read Aloud and Supplementary ELA ActivitiesIn 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, thousands of African American children volunteered to march for their civil rights after hearing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak. They protested the laws that kept black people separate from white people. Facing fear, hate, and danger, these children used their voices to change the world. Frank Morrison's emotive oil-on-canvas paintings bring this historic
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K - 5th
Adjectives and Adverbs Activity Packet
What's In This Packet?1. Review of Nouns and Verbs2. Posters for Adverbs and Adjectives 3. Definitions and Examples of Adverbs and Adjectives4. Adjective Homework or Extra Practice Sheets5. Describing Adjective Sheets for Pumpkins, Snowmen, and Hot Chocolate6. Adjective Scavenger Hunt7. Adverb Homework or Extra Practice Sheets8. Adverb Charades Game9. Write your own story using adjective and adverbs10. Assessment Sheet (Can students identify an adjective and adverb?)11. Core Content Co
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1st - 5th
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Pop's Bridge (Compatible with 3rd Grade Journeys)
Eleven activities correlated with Pop's Bridge (compatible with 3rd Grade Journeys). Lots of fun, including comparing characters, questioning skills, definitions, sentence writing, writing task cards, syllable sorts, long o words, sequencing, prefix dis-, -ed words, common and proper nouns, and punctuating and capitalization of titles of people's names and stories.
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3rd
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Shades of Meaning for Google Slides
Shades of Meaning Digital interactive Google SlidesThis resource is perfect to practice shades of meaning. Students will drag and drop to put the words in order from weakest to strongest. Words are given on each slide in a random order. Students will drag and drop to rearrange them. All vocabulary words are editable. Feel free to change them as needed, or change them and use it multiple times.Highlights➼ Digital and Interactive➼ Easy to use➼ Editable "Shades of meaning" wordsHow to use this prod
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3rd - 5th
Also included in: Language Skills Bundle for Google Slides
Fill the Blank Review Worksheets Slides Forms | Nouns Verbs Adjectives Grade 3-4
Benefit your vocabulary test preparation lessons with this Google fill the blanks bundle. With most of the work already done for you, feel free to use these fill the blank assessments in several different ways knowing you can focus on the results, not the prep! Focus Areas:How Adjectives Work in Sentences, How Nouns Work in Sentences, How Verbs Work in Sentences, Frequently Mistaken Words.Fill the Blank Review:The bundle contains three formats (Docs, Slides, Forms). Each format includes 6 tests
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3rd - 4th
FREEBIE Separate Is Never Equal Read Aloud and Supplementary ELA Activities
Common Core Aligned
Separate Is Never Equal:
Sylvia Mendez and Her Family's Fight for Desegregation, by Duncan Tonatiuh
Read Aloud and Supplementary ELA Activities
Sylvia Mendez and her parents fought to end school segregation in California. An American citizen of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage who spoke and wrote perfect English, Mendez was denied enrollment to an “American” school. Her parents took action by organizing the Hispanic community and filing a lawsuit in federal district cour
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1st - 4th
MORE Word Choice Writing Task Cards, Common Core Aligned
This set includes 36 Word Choice task cards, focusing on vocabulary acquisition and practice with synonyms and antonyms, vivid verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and shades of meaning, all aligned to the Common Core Standards for Grades 2-4. I have also used these task cards with 5th graders as a fun way to review/assess.
Use these task cards with your students to help improve their vocabulary, reading, and writing skills. These task cards can be used for small group practice, independent practice, in
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2nd - 5th
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Also included in: Word Choice Task Cards BUNDLE
The Harvest Birds (Compatible with 3rd Grade Journeys)
Ten activities based on The Harvest Birds (compatible with 3rd Grade Journeys) to reinforce Common Core standards. Activities include opinion writing, using text evidence, characterization, definitions, syllable sorts, use of commas, adding ed to make adjectives or verbs, literal and non-literal language, and words with silent consonants.
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3rd
Poetry Writing: Sing a Song of Poetry(Anchor Charts, Sample Poems, & Templates)
April is National Poetry Month! This packet will enable you to teach your students to write the following types of poems: shape poems, tongue twisters, acrostic, cinquain, diamante, free verse, couplets, Haiku, limericks, as well as biography and autobiography poems! This product provides you with a great "recipe" to write each poem. Great for use on your Elmo or other overhead device.Product includes:- Several samples of each type of poem- Anchor Charts for posting in your classroom- How to
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2nd - 5th
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Comparative and Superlative Adjectives | Adjective Task Cards and Activities
Teaching comparative and superlative adjectives or looking for a comparatives and superlatives test prep activity? This differentiated task card bundle is a perfect grammar resource to incorporate into your ELA lesson plans and guaranteed to meet the diverse needs of each student! I guarantee your students will be more likely to master this ELA/Grammar standard and be more motivated when working with these comparative and superlative adjective task cards than they would if you gave them a trad
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1st - 4th, Staff
Idioms Lesson Plan, Worksheets, Activities and Digital Boom Deck Bundle
Everything you need to help your students identify, explain, and even illustrate idioms with multiple activities, tips, and resources. Students are provided with the opportunity to view the idioms in context to help them identify the meaning of each one. A variety of creative activities, tips, and extension ideas are included.✶ Comprehensive Idiom Lesson Plan✶ Multiple-choice Idioms (with answer key)✶ Interactive Boom Deck - 30 task cards - great for independent practice✶ "Idiom, No Idiom" (with
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3rd - 5th
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