STAAR Practice Informational Reading Grades 3-5 Test Prep FREEBIE!
By TooBookedUp
Transform your STAAR prep with our Texas-themed informational Text Sets for Grades 3-5!
What's Included:
This comprehensive bundle, perfect for Texas elementary teachers, features seven engaging texts, each accompanied by two STAAR-aligned multiple-choice questions, covering crucial skills.
Skills include:
Ideal for varied classroom settings - from whole class instruction to small group work, or even as enriching homework tasks - these print-and-go PDFs are an educator's dream for seamless integration into daily routines or as part of a focused test prep unit.
Try using these products for:
✅ Whole Class Test Prep
✅ Intervention Groups
✅ Small Group Work
✅ Independent Work
✅ Assessment
✅ Homework
Get ready to enhance your students' reading comprehension and critical thinking skills with this meticulously crafted, teacher-approved resource, which aligns perfectly with Texas educational standards.
Kick Off Learning: Lionel Messi Biography Reading Comprehension Worksheet
By YOUNESS ELIDRYSY
Explore the incredible life story of Lionel Messi, one of the greatest soccer players of all time, through this comprehensive biography worksheet. Designed for students of various ages, this resource delves into Messi's childhood, his move to Barcelona, and his legendary career milestones. Engage your students with thought-provoking questions, fun activities, and a glimpse into the personal side of this soccer superstar. Use "Kick Off Learning: Lionel Messi Biography Reading Comprehension Worksheet" to inspire discussions about resilience, sportsmanship, and the pursuit of excellence in both sports and life. An exciting addition to your classroom resources!
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Fiction or Nonfiction: Sentence Bowl Activity
By Early Childhood Essentials
Grab a bowl, hat, or box, and take these sentences, cut them (and laminate them if you want), toss em around, and let your students read and discuss what could be fictional and nonfictional. As this was meant to be an introductory lesson, maybe they won't know those words yet, so you can accept "realistic" and "not realistic," or whatever language works for your classroom! More details within!
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FREE What is Veterans Day? Digital History lesson, question & answer format,PPT
By Kiwious About Vocab
What is Veterans Day? - A HISTORY MINI-LESSON
This 15 slide digital PowerPoint Lesson answers basic questions about the holiday. Created in a question/answer format, the historical information is clear and concise; perfect for a brief reminder of the original story. The historical information is brought to life with bold photos and an embedded video link for the visual learner.
Enjoy!
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Cut & Paste Activity: Comparing Information & Narrative Text Features - Aus Curr
By Little Learners Lab Aus
Are you looking for a hands on, easy, no prep cut and paste activity? Do you want a simple, yet effective way to explore and compare the text features of information and narrative texts? This three page resource, with teacher answers is aligned to the Australian Curriculum V9 and is ready to print and use in your classroom today!
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Nonfiction Text Features Test - editable in Power Point
By Sassycat Corner
Working on nonfiction text features in your ELA class? This test for nonfiction test features will help you determine how well your students have learned the various features. Best of all, it is easy to edit. Simply delete questions that you don't want, add those that do, or change the wording of others to suit the unit YOU taught. This test currently is 5 pages long. It features 13 MC questions and 5 short answer questions. (1 MC and 1 Short answer overlap each other.) The unit materials that this test was designed to compliment can be found at the following links: Buy the Bundle and SAVE!!!! Nonfiction Text Features Mini Unit Bundle Individual Files: Nonfiction Text Features Powerpoint - Editable Nonfiction Text Features Task Cards Nonfiction Text Features Unit Worksheets Nonfiction Text Features Posters Nonfiction Text Features Test - editable in Power Point
Biography Trading Card- Mini Biography Reoprt #kilefree
By Kile's Classroom
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Have your students create a trading card for historical figures! Research a famous person and create a trading card to share important information about what they learn! A quick and free activity!
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Fiction & Nonfiction Reading Genre Posters Freebie
By SPO Resources
Introduce your students to the basics of genre with these engaging Fiction and Nonfiction Genre Posters! Perfect for elementary classrooms or library displays, these posters feature student-friendly definitions and eye-catching graphics, helping students easily identify the differences between fiction and nonfiction.
This free set includes only the Fiction and Nonfiction posters.
Want more? Discover the full Reading Genre Posters set, featuring 28 unique genres to cover everything you need for teaching book genres.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
This set includes the fiction and nonfiction genre posters in the following formats:
★ Full-Size Poster (8.5” x 11”)➜ Color and black & white options
★ Half-Size Poster (5” x 4”)➜ Color and black & white options; perfect for student notebooks or smaller spaces
WHY USE GENRE POSTERS?
Boost reading comprehension by giving students a quick reference to help them identify fiction and nonfiction elements. These posters provide a strong foundation for understanding the basics of genre and are perfect for displaying year-round.
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WHO IS THIS FOR?
Ideal for elementary teachers looking for a clear, ready-to-use tool to introduce fiction and nonfiction genres. This set is designed specifically for younger students needing a strong foundation in genre types.
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Create an engaging learning space for genre exploration with these fiction and nonfiction genre posters for your ELA classroom!
Women's history month writing and reading activities
By Learn smartly
Women's History Month is an annual observance in March that celebrates the contributions and achievements of women throughout history. It highlights the important role that women have played in shaping society, politics, and culture. This month-long celebration is an opportunity to recognize the barriers that women have overcome, honor the progress that has been made, and continue advocating for gender equality.
The children will get to know some of the women who have achieved great success.
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Free-What is Veterans Day? Digital History Lesson, Question & Answer, Google
By Kiwious About Vocab
What is Veterans Day? - A HISTORY MINI-LESSON
This 15 slide digital Google Slide Lesson answers basic questions about the holiday. Created in a question/answer format, the historical information is clear and concise; perfect for a brief reminder of the original holiday. The historical information is brought to life with bold photos and an embedded video link for the visual learner.
Enjoy!
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Free-The Buffalo Are Back by J. George introduction & digital vocabulary , PPT
By Kiwious About Vocab
"The Buffalo are Back" by Jean Craighead George: This introductory PowerPoint lesson provides digital pre-reading information for the author, genre, and setting. Fun facts, photo visuals, and video clips support the story details. The lesson also includes vocabulary study, practice, and assessment.
This standard-aligned material is for use with whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual/homeschool classrooms
PowerPoint Slides:
1. **Author Biography** We provide author biographies for each short story. This adds depth to the lesson, allowing students to appreciate the story in the context of the author's life experience.
2. **Setting**Highly informative slides include maps, historical images and intriguing video links allowing students to have a deeper understanding of the location and time-period in which the story takes place. This is a crucial element when preparing students to read outside their own worldview.
3.**Bold Photos: ** Visual learners will thrive with our visually appealing slides, featuring bold and relevant images that help reinforce vocabulary concepts and make learning more engaging.
4. **Vocab with Concise Definitions and Part of Speech: ** Our lesson provides clear and concise definitions for challenging vocabulary words, ensuring that students understand the meaning of each word in context. Understanding the parts of speech is crucial for effective language comprehension. Our lesson includes sections dedicated to identifying the part of speech for each vocabulary word.
Vibrant Vocab slides (flourished, extinct, fragile, crumbled, drought, imbalance, rippled, ecosystem)
5.**Quizlet Practice Link ** Reinforce learning and encourage self-assessment with Quizlet practice tailored to the vocabulary words covered in the lesson. This interactive tool allows students to review and quiz themselves.
6. **Fun Fact Images and Videos** These features highlight unique elements of the text to aid comprehension .
7. **Audio Link to Book**Providing an additional resource to support diverse learning styles and ensuring all students can access and engage with the text.
PDF FILE.
Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing printable worksheets to be used with the lesson!
**Grammar Sort**
Strengthen language skills with integrated grammar review sections, ensuring students can apply the vocabulary words correctly in their own writing and communication.
**Connotation Sort**
Dive deeper into vocabulary nuances by exploring the connotations of words, helping students grasp the subtle shades of meaning and usage.
**Context Clues Sentences, Word Bank and Key: **
Our lesson includes carefully curated sentences that employ context clues, enabling students to decipher word meanings from surrounding text. This fosters independent comprehension skills. These worksheets can be used for practice or assessment.
**Vocabulary Organizer**
This worksheet allows the students to infer the meaning from the animated vocabulary slide. After students complete the organizer, it is a great reference sheet.
**Synonym and Antonym Word Study**
The graphic organizer allows the students to explore the variations in meaning of the new vocabulary word.
DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:
· Introduce new story
· Provide backstory to text
· Stimulate group discussion
· Create predictions about text
· Use as distance learning resource
· Post on webpage for review
· Add to electronic notebooks
· Provide test review
· Prompt Writing or Research assignments
· Grammar study / parts of speech
· Discuss Word Connotation
Please be sure to view the preview and watch the video for detailed images and descriptions of the lesson.
This lesson is also available in Google Slides.
Enjoy!
-From Kiwious About Vocab!
The Buffalo are Back by J. George-Digital Background Info & Vocab Introduction
By Kiwious About Vocab
"The Buffalo are Back" by Jean Craighead George: This introductory Google Slide lesson provides digital pre-reading information for the author, genre, and setting. Fun facts, photo visuals, and video clips support the story details. The lesson also includes vocabulary study, practice, and assessment.
This standard-aligned material is for use with whole group, small group, or independent work for regular ed, learning support, ESL or virtual/homeschool classrooms
Google Slides:
1. **Author Biography** We provide author biographies for each short story. This adds depth to the lesson, allowing students to appreciate the story in the context of the author's life experience.
2. **Setting**Highly informative slides include maps, historical images and intriguing video links allowing students to have a deeper understanding of the location and time-period in which the story takes place. This is a crucial element when preparing students to read outside their own worldview.
3.**Bold Photos: ** Visual learners will thrive with our visually appealing slides, featuring bold and relevant images that help reinforce vocabulary concepts and make learning more engaging.
4. **Vocab with Concise Definitions and Part of Speech: ** Our lesson provides clear and concise definitions for challenging vocabulary words, ensuring that students understand the meaning of each word in context. Understanding the parts of speech is crucial for effective language comprehension. Our lesson includes sections dedicated to identifying the part of speech for each vocabulary word.
Vibrant Vocab slides (flourished, extinct, fragile, crumbled, drought, imbalance, rippled, ecosystem)
5.**Quizlet Practice Link ** Reinforce learning and encourage self-assessment with Quizlet practice tailored to the vocabulary words covered in the lesson. This interactive tool allows students to review and quiz themselves.
6. **Fun Fact Images and Videos** These features highlight unique elements of the text to aid comprehension .
7. **Audio Link to Book**Providing an additional resource to support diverse learning styles and ensuring all students can access and engage with the text.
PDF FILE.
Plus, each ZIP file comes with a PDF folder containing printable worksheets to be used with the lesson!
**Grammar Sort**
Strengthen language skills with integrated grammar review sections, ensuring students can apply the vocabulary words correctly in their own writing and communication.
**Connotation Sort**
Dive deeper into vocabulary nuances by exploring the connotations of words, helping students grasp the subtle shades of meaning and usage.
**Context Clues Sentences, Word Bank and Key: **
Our lesson includes carefully curated sentences that employ context clues, enabling students to decipher word meanings from surrounding text. This fosters independent comprehension skills. These worksheets can be used for practice or assessment.
**Vocabulary Organizer**
This worksheet allows the students to infer the meaning from the animated vocabulary slide. After students complete the organizer, it is a great reference sheet.
**Synonym and Antonym Word Study**
The graphic organizer allows the students to explore the variations in meaning of the new vocabulary word.
DIGITAL USES IN THE CLASSROOM:
· Introduce new story
· Provide backstory to text
· Stimulate group discussion
· Create predictions about text
· Use as distance learning resource
· Post on webpage for review
· Add to electronic notebooks
· Provide test review
· Prompt Writing or Research assignments
· Grammar study / parts of speech
· Discuss Word Connotation
Please be sure to view the preview and watch the video for detailed images and descriptions of the lesson.
This lesson is also available in PowerPoint.
Enjoy!
-From Kiwious About Vocab!
Stone Soup - Sample lesson from Thanksgiving Dinner Theme Unit
By Sassycat Corner
Have you made Stone Soup with your upper grade students? They LOVE IT! Try this twist on the traditional reading and comprehension passages for Thanksgiving. These lessons focus on Thanksgiving Dinner! Open up a great discussion on the importance of sharing what we have with those who are less fortunate. This free activity includes a lesson plan for making stone soup, along with a four page pdf of the story "Stone Soup", and 2 comprehension pages - 1 multiple choice and 1 constructed response - to accompany the story. Like this free lesson! It's part of a larger theme unit - Thanksgiving Dinner. The large unit includes the following lessons. Click here to view the full unit! Thanksgiving Dinner Theme Unit - ELA, Math, and Science ★ Thanksgiving Then & Now paired reading passages with constructed response questions page, Venn Diagram, and three paragraph writing assignment. ★ The World’s Largest Pumpkin Pie reading passage with constructed response page and 8 math word problems involving all four operations. ★ Calories Count nonfiction science passage on what a calorie is and how many we often consume with our Thanksgiving meal. Includes a constructed response page and word problem page involving all four operations. ★ Homemade Cranberry Sauce recipe page with sequencing activity and math worksheet. ★ Pumpkin Pie in a Bag recipe page with science report form and question page. ★ Gobble! Gobble! Plan your own Thanksgiving dinner activity – complete with instructions, budget sheet, grocery list, menu page, and student / teacher scoring guides. ★ Stone Soup – When Sharing Benefits Everyone – Story, comprehension pages, directions for making stone soup, find a word puzzle, and a reader’s theater. ★ Bonus just for fun Family Dinner coloring page titled “Give Thanks”
Reading Comprehension Worksheets 2nd grade Video Games WH Questions SpEd
By Modz by Laila
Get your students excited about reading with my reading passages with comprehension and vocabulary questions about topics that actually interest your students!
This Freebie includes passages on:
Animal Crossing (Popular Video Game)
DanTDM (Youtuber)
I use these passages in my 3rd - 5th grade Special Education Classroom. My students are not interested in reading, but love these passages! They need a lot of support with comprehension and vocabulary, so after I read these passages to them, they are excited to answer the questions about topics they love!
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FREE EMERGENCY ELA PLAN; NONFICTION text/read aloud video, tons of activities
By Kiwious About Vocab
This convenient GOOGLE SLIDE lesson contains a complete Digital EMERGENCY ELA lesson for the NONFICTION BOOK, THE BUFFALO ARE BACK, with hours of fun encompassing multiple reading strategies and skills aligned to Common Core.
EMERGENCY PLAN includes:
PDF printables: 8 graphic organizers are included both digitally and in the PDF file, designed to coordinate with the GOOGLE SLIDES.
Introduction: slides include genre with link, author bio with link, and setting with maps
Video Link for Read Aloud: link to Buffalo are Back is included (17 min)
Vocabulary Study: flourished, extinct, fragile, crumbled, drought, rippled, wobble, graze, treaty, settler
10 vocab slides include word, bold photo, definition & part of speech, both a Vocab Organizer chart, and a Word Study chart are included (print and digital) to compliment the vocabulary.
Predictions: slides allow for student discussion prior to listening to the read aloud and again reflection on their predictions after the story has been heard.
*Optional Fun Facts: photos of plains animals, links to animal sounds from the grasslands, famous people bios from this time/place with links are all are pertinent to the text
*Optional Activities: these elements are provided within the digital product as well as PDF form. Connotation info/sort, Grammar info/sort, context clue worksheet with word bank
Practice/Assessment: Quizlet links for both a vocabulary quiz and a comprehension quiz are included
Enjoy this convenient GOOGLE SLIDE 'Lesson to Go'!
THIS LESSON IS ALSO AVAILABLE IN POWERPOINT.
FREE Digital EMERGENCY ELA PLAN: NONFICTION read aloud video, tons of activities
By Kiwious About Vocab
This convenient POWERPOINT lesson contains a complete Digital Emergency ELA lesson for the NONFICTION BOOK, THE BUFFALO ARE BACK, encompassing hours of activities, multiple reading strategies and ELA skills all aligned to Common Core.
'EMERGENCY PLAN' includes:
PDF printables: 8 graphic organizers are included both digitally and in the PDF file, designed to coordinate with the Powerpoint.
Introduction: slides include genre with link, author bio with link, and setting with maps
Video Link for Read Aloud: link to Buffalo are Back is included (17 min)
Vocabulary Study: flourished, extinct, fragile, crumbled, drought, rippled, wobble, graze, treaty, settler
10 vocab slides include word, bold photo, definition & part of speech, both a Vocab Organizer chart, and a Word Study chart are included (print and digital) to compliment the vocabulary.
Predictions: slides allow for student discussion prior to listening to the read aloud and again reflection on their predictions after the story has been heard.
*Optional Fun Facts: photos of plains animals, links to animal sounds from the grasslands, famous people bios from this time/place with links are all are pertinent to the text
*Optional Activities: these elements are provided within the digital product as well as PDF form. Connotation info/sort, Grammar info/sort, context clue worksheet with word bank
Practice/Assessment: Quizlet links for both a vocabulary quiz and a comprehension quiz are included
Enjoy this convenient Powerpoint 'EMERGENCY LESSON PLAN'
*ALSO AVAILABLE IN GOOGLE SLIDES
Homer Close Reading Comprehension Activities | 3rd Grade & 4th Grade
By Creative Primary Literacy
A close reading passage with an informational text, a teacher presentation, comprehension and grammar questions, a multiple choice quiz, a crossword puzzle and a wordsearch about one of the key figures from Ancient Greece and the author of The Iliad and The Odyssey, Homer.
The NO PREP informational text worksheets are perfect for students in third grade or fourth grade. Students will learn key facts about the famous figure whilst working on their comprehension skills.
Included in this PDF printable resource:
For a digital version of this resource that students can complete on tablets, phones and computers download the Homer Close Reading Activity | Digital & Print.
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This resource is great for:
The activity requires NO PREP; it has a body of text that students need to read through thoroughly; then they can use the text to find the comprehension and grammar answers. All texts then have an extension activity for those fast finishers and answers, for teacher use, are on the final page of the document.
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Planning Informational Texts PowerPoint/Lesson | Factual Texts
By Teachin Tips
Planning an information report can be difficult. But not anymore! This Informative Writing Planning PowerPoint helps you teach your students how to plan an information report step-by-step! This PowerPoint is an interactive way to introduce the structure of informative writing with examples and visuals for you to run the explicit portion of your lesson.
FEATURES
✏️ Information Report Planning PowerPoint PDF Format
✏️ Steps and examples for planning an information report
✏️ Visuals to support student understanding
✏️ Suitable for whole class explicit lesson
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Informational Writing List of Topics Poster | Factual Texts ANHCOR CHART!
By Teachin Tips
Are your students stuck for ideas on what to write for their information reports? Then hand them a copy of this List of Topics for informational writing and help your students get past the hardest part of writing...getting started!
FEATURES
✏️ List of Topics Poster - Informational Writing PDF
✏️ List of interesting animals, people, places, ideas and objects
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Kwanzaa Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions | Winter Holidays
By True Line Texts
Enhance your students' understanding of Kwanzaa with this engaging Kwanzaa Nonfiction Reading Comprehension Passage and Questions resource! Perfect for the classroom, this product provides a detailed nonfiction passage that introduces the history, principles, and traditions of Kwanzaa.
Accompanied by six thought-provoking questions, this resource encourages meaningful discussions and helps students develop critical thinking skills.
Whether used for group activities, classroom discussions, or individual assessments, this two-page PDF is designed to captivate young learners while meeting educational standards.
Key Features:
This versatile resource is excellent for celebrating Kwanzaa while also incorporating themes of diversity and cultural awareness. Download now to provide your students with a meaningful and educational learning experience!