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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
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A 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
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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)
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Charlotte’s Web: Chapter Questioning Strategies

Chapter-by-chapter questioning & strategies for Charlotte's Web are based on the latest comprehension research and include writing prompts & ideas for end of novel projects.

Category: Charlotte's Web, Novel Studies
Types: Comprehension
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Charlotte’s Web: Fun Way to Begin (Brainstorm an Outline)

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
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Charlotte’s Web: Crossword Puzzle

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this crossword puzzle about Charlotte's Web is great for homework, seat work, extra credit, and learning stations. The 48 word crossword puzzle is a helpful review of vocabulary, characters, details, and events from the novel.

Category: Charlotte's Web, Crossword Puzzles, Novel Studies
Types: Comprehension, Spelling, Vocabulary
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Charlotte’s Web: Final Exam

More than just a Final Exam on Charlotte's Web, this test will also help students learn how to choose the best answer in a multiple choice test.

Category: Charlotte's Web, Novel Studies
Types: Comprehension, Tests
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Charlotte’s Web: Story Sequencing Cards

Students love this activity because they move around the classroom while sequencing events from the novel Charlotte's Web.

Category: Charlotte's Web, Novel Studies
Types: Comprehension
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Comprehension Evaluation Stories

Helpful, accurate, and easy for evaluation of reading level P-4, these stories are perfect for effective tutoring.

Category: Diagnosis
Types: Comprehension, Fluency, Phonics/ Word Analysis
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The Elephant in the Garden Unique Bundle

This fast-paced novel describes a perilous journey of a family in wartime traveling with an elephant during WWII. The bundle includes chapter-by-chapter questions & answers, vocabulary study, and a final exam, also available individually in the Reading Spotlight TPT Store.

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Types: Comprehension, Tests, Vocabulary, Writing (Composition)
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The Giver Novel Study

A simple structure for comprehension of Lowry's novel, The Giver, this set includes chapter-by-chapter questions & answers, plus vocabulary.

Category: Independent Reading, Novel Studies
Types: Comprehension, Vocabulary
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Grammar Review: Stories About Careers

Many students have no idea what career to pursue. With Grammar Stories about Careers, they can practice grammar while learning about numerous careers. Teachers will find an invaluable resource for designing instruction in the Grammar Review Error Analysis Worksheets that are included.

Category: Grammar
Types: Comprehension, Grammar, Spelling
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Grammar Review: History of Sports

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this set of grammar stories about the history of sports is helpful and motivating. Teachers will find the included Error Analysis Worksheets invaluable in designing class instruction for new classes or students. No teacher preparation is necessary because all Answer Keys include explanations for every correction.

Category: Grammar
Types: Comprehension, Grammar, Spelling
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Grammar Review: Stories About Holiday Traditions

Students enjoy learning about the origin of holiday traditions while reviewing grammar skills. Each one-page story includes sentences with only one grammatical error in each sentence. Students enjoy trying to find it.

Category: Grammar, Holiday Menagerie
Types: Comprehension, Grammar, Spelling
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Grammar Review: The Summer Games

Grammar Practice Does Not Have To Be Boring!

Category: Grammar
Types: Comprehension, Grammar, Spelling
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Grammar Review: The Winter Games

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this set of four grammar stories about events in the Winter Games is helpful and motivating. No teacher preparation is necessary because all Answer Keys include explanations for every correction. Each sentence of the story includes only one grammatical error, and students enjoy trying to find all of them.

Category: Grammar
Types: Comprehension, Grammar, Spelling
Price: $3.99
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Halloween Candy Wrapper Stories

Fun, motivating, and easy to use, this project is a great way to stimulate student writing. Using candy wrappers in the text of the story, students can compose impressively creative stories. Clear and simple directions make classroom use a breeze.

Category: Holiday Menagerie, Writing
Types: Comprehension, Fluency, Writing (Composition)
Price: $ FREE
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Hoot: A Unique Novel Study

Hoot is a fun novel for middle school reluctant readers. The main character grows in understanding and self-reliance while experiencing comic antics.

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Types: Comprehension, Tests, Writing (Composition)
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How To Eat Fried Worms: Short Answer Questions

This oldie-but-goodie novel is perfect for a chuckle-filled read-aloud. 41 very short chapters have been divided into eleven segments that have a one-page, short answer set of questions that involve basic understanding of the text, as well as higher level questioning strategies. The short essays easily relate to younger lives and foster composition comfortably.

Category: Listening Skills, Novel Studies, Writing
Types: Comprehension, Listening, Writing (Composition)
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How to Eat Fried Worms: Word Search

This Word Search helps students review important characters and plot points in the novel, How To Eat Fried Worms.

Category: Novel Studies, Word Analysis, Word Search Puzzles
Types: Comprehension, Spelling
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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: $ 1.49
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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
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TALL Tales Bargain Bundle

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this Tall Tale Bundle improves grammar with interesting tales of Americana, rather than with boring, unrelated sentences. They focus on the most common errors in homophones, subject-verb agreement, apostrophe, capitalization, punctuation, irregular verbs, and irregular plurals.

Category: Grammar
Types: Comprehension, Grammar
Price: $ 14.99
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Tall Tales Grammar Review: Set A

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this set of Tall Tales improves grammar with a bit of Americana, rather than with boring, unrelated sentences. These tales focus on the most common errors in homophones, subject-verb agreement, apostrophe, capitalization, punctuation, irregular verbs, and irregular plurals. Grammar practice can be fun!

Category: Grammar
Types: Comprehension, Grammar
Price: $4.99
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Tall Tales Grammar Review: Set B

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this set of Tall Tales improves grammar with a bit of Americana, rather than with boring, unrelated sentences. These tales focus on the most common errors in homophones, subject-verb agreement, apostrophe, capitalization, punctuation, irregular verbs, and irregular plurals.

Category: Grammar
Types: Comprehension, Grammar
Price: $4.99
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Tall Tales Grammar Review : Set C

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this set of Tall Tales improves grammar with a bit of Americana, rather than with boring, unrelated sentences. These tales focus on the most common errors in homophones, subject-verb agreement, apostrophe, capitalization, punctuation, irregular verbs, and irregular plurals.

Category: Grammar
Types: Comprehension, Grammar
Price: $4.99
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Tall Tales Grammar Review: Set D

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this set of Tall Tales improves grammar with a bit of Americana, rather than with boring, unrelated sentences. These tales focus on the most common errors in homophones, subject-verb agreement, apostrophe, capitalization, punctuation, irregular verbs, and irregular plurals.

Category: Grammar
Types: Comprehension, Grammar
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Tall Tales Grammar Story: Johnny Appleseed

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, this Tall Tale improves grammar with a bit of Americana, rather than with boring, unrelated sentences. The tale focuses on the most common errors in homophones, subject-verb agreement, apostrophe, capitalization, punctuation, irregular verbs, and irregular plurals.

Category: Grammar
Types: Comprehension, Grammar
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To Kill a Mockingbird Novel Study

This novel study provides a clear structure for comprehension of vocabulary, basic events, and primary concepts and for writing fundamentals.

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Types: Comprehension, Tests, Vocabulary, Writing (Composition)
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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
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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
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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
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The Trumpet of the Swan: Origami Swan

This simple origami swan is designed as a lesson in following directions after completion of The Trumpet of the Swan. Enjoy!

Category: Novel Studies
Types: Comprehension
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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
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Vocabulary: The Prefix “in” (Parts 1 + 2)

Effective and easy to use, these vocabulary worksheets provide extensive development with 100 words that use the prefix "in." Different formats such as definition matching, completion exercises, rather questions, and crossword puzzles improve retention of new words

Category: Vocabulary
Types: Comprehension, Vocabulary
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Vowel Tutor: Double Vowels In Context: Sentence Completion Level 2

Effective and easy to use, these worksheets provide extra practice for regular vowel teams within the context of a sentence. Unlike many phonics worksheets, these contain simple and clear word choice, thus enabling independent completion by struggling readers.

Category: Word Analysis
Types: Comprehension, Fluency, Phonics/ Word Analysis
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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
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Women’s History Short Biographies

Effective, enjoyable, and easy to use, these eight stories about famous women from history improve comprehension and spelling at the same time. The stories include blanks for missing vowels, so students must supply them.

Category: Holiday Menagerie
Types: Comprehension, Phonics/ Word Analysis, Spelling
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