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Independent Reading Packet

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this free packet helps teachers and parents encourage independent reading for kids.

Category: Independent Reading, Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension, Fluency, Parents
Price: $Free
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All SPORTS Reading Comprehension Activity

Enjoyable, effective, timely, and easy to use, this activity takes advantage of the hype of the latest Big Game to improve comprehension skills.

Category: Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension
Price: $ FREE
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Charlotte’s Web Unique Bundle

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these Before and After Reading Strategies for Charlotte's Web, rated the BEST children's book of the 20th century, are unique and productive.

Category: Charlotte's Web, Novel Studies, Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension, Listening, Tests, Vocabulary, Writing (Composition)
Price: $4.99
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Charlotte’s Web: Introduction to Outlining

Effective, easy to use, and unique, this outline uses class brainstorming to activate prior knowledge before reading Charlotte's Web while also introducing the skill of outlining.

Category: Charlotte's Web, Novel Studies, Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension, Vocabulary
Price: $ 1.29
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Inferences and Details: Comprehension Cups

Effective, enjoyable, easy to use, and inexpensive to make, this reading game, Comprehension Cups, helps students to see "the big picture," a metacognitive strategy. They read a factual detail and learn to make an inference about what information it communicates to them.

Category: Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension
Price: $ 1.99
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Main Idea Category Cards

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this category game is a helpful way to get kids thinking in broad terms about main idea and supporting details. It helps to ingrain the metacognitive structure of this important reading strategy. It is also useful for verbal communication skills, allowing students to organize thoughts and speak in front of an audience in a short, non-threatening exercise. Crazy fun!

Category: Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension
Price: $1.99
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Making Inferences with Life Mottos

Effective, unique, and easy to use, these four lessons in making inferences contain well-known adages that are derived from centuries of human experiences. When matching these truisms to their underlying meanings, students practice making inferences from what they read. 

Category: Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension
Price: $1.79
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Thinking About Thinking: Metacognition

Effective, motivating, and easy to use, this set makes a strong addition to your comprehension repertoire with its metacognitive strategy (thinking about thinking) of placing details into the correct category: Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

Category: Reading Comprehension
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Reading Profile

This exceptional, ordered list of fundamental reading skills will help you gauge each of your students’ reading strengths and weaknesses. You can add to the profile as you learn more about each student. It can direct more effective grouping strategies with your class as well as more beneficial individualized homework assignments.

Category: Diagnosis, Reading Comprehension, Word Analysis
Types: Comprehension, Fluency, Grammar, Phonics/ Word Analysis, Tests
Price: $ FREE
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Retelling Profiles

Do you have a student who sounds like a good reader but does not seem to understand what s/he reads? Retelling may be useful strategy to gain insight into his or her thinking process. This organizational technique, one for fiction and one for non-fiction, can be taught in small or large groups with this set.

Category: Diagnosis, Reading Comprehension
Types: Tests
Price: $ FREE
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Self-Help Test: Reading Habits (Grades 1-2)

Help your children help themselves. This two page Reading Habits Self-Help Test is designed to demonstrate the skills that are important to being a good reader in Grades 1 & 2. 

Category: Diagnosis, Reading Comprehension
Types: Tests
Price: $ FREE
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Self-Help Test: Reading Comprehension (Grades 3-8)

Do some of your students sound like good readers, but they don't seem to comprehend very well what they read? Teachers often simply hope that students will know how to read with understanding. It is so much better to actually provide them with information about how good readers go about understanding text, and then help them assess themselves in relation to that information. This test does that.

Category: Diagnosis, Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension, Tests
Price: $ FREE
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Self-Help Test: Reading Habits (Grades 3-12)

Help your children help themselves. This two page Reading Habits Self-Help Test is designed evaluate the skills important to being a good reader in Grades 3-12. Students then develop improvement statements based on the honest appraisal of their own habits. 

Category: Diagnosis, Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension, Tests
Price: $ FREE
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Self-Help Test: Study Habits

Help your students help themselves. This two page Study Habits Self-Help Test is designed to demonstrate the skills or actions that are important to having good study habits. Students develop improvement statements based on an honest evaluation of their own habits.

Category: Diagnosis, Listening Skills, Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension, Tests
Price: $ FREE
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Self-Help Test: Understanding What I Read

Effective and easy to use with most reading selections, this test will help your students help themselves to better reading. Stop simply HOPING that your students learn the process of how to read and study--actually provide explicit instruction with this Self-Help Test in a completion format.

Category: Diagnosis, Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension, Tests
Price: $ FREE
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Strega Nona Sequencing Cards

Effective, enjoyable, and easy, to us, this set develops the strategic reading skill of sequencing events for the book, Strega Nona. Students love this activity because there is a physicality to it that helps some children who have difficulty conceptualizing events in time.

Category: Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension
Price: $ 1.29
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Summer Reading Packet

Summer is a great time to hook kids on reading because they can choose their own books according to their own interests. At the same time, they can practice previously taught reading skills and improve in many ways. This packet makes summer reading easy to manage.

Category: Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension, Fluency, Parents
Price: $FREE
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The Trumpet of the Swan: Chapter Review Questions

Perfect for reviewing & refocusing the information from the previous chapter before embarking on the next one. Both literal and higher-level questioning strategies are used.

Category: Novel Studies, Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension
Price: $1.79
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The Trumpet of the Swan: Crossword Puzzle

This crossword puzzle for The Trumpet of the Swan includes characters, places, themes, and ideas from another wise and profound novel from the author of Charlotte's Web.

Category: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary
Types: Comprehension, Spelling, Vocabulary
Price: $1.29
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The Trumpet of the Swan: Final Exam

More than just a Final Exam, this 30 item multiple-choice test is designed to give students experience in test-taking strategies for choosing the best answer in multiple-choice tests, a strategy that is not often explained or practiced in classrooms today.

Category: Novel Studies, Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension, Tests
Price: $1.99
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The Trumpet of the Swan: Sequencing Events Cards

Children really love this activity because they get to move around, and it is actually very good practice in the skill of sequencing events after The Trumpet of the Swan has been completed.

Category: Novel Studies, Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension
Price: $1.29
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Where the Wild Things Are: A Sequencing Activity

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this sequencing activity for events from Where the Wild Things Are provides a fun experience while practicing an important skill. Sequencing of events is an important competency for listening, thinking, and reading. It is valuable to introduce as soon as possible. Practice with the letter "w" is also included.

Category: Reading Comprehension
Types: Comprehension, Listening
Price: $ 1.29
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