3rd Grade Reading Strategies Resources

Guess Who Sight Word Edition and Guess Who Vowel Pairs Edition

⭐Pre-Primer, Primer, First, Second and Third Grade WORDS!⭐

BUNDLE & SAVE!

✅ ASSESSMENT

✅ PRACTICE

✅ INTERVENTION

⭐ STEP 1: ASSESS!

Use the included presentation in PowerPoint or Google Slides to show the words while checking a box for the words the student knows. Words are automatically counted!

Enter the date and number correct as displayed. Percentage correct is calculated for you!

⭐ STEP 2: ENTER MISSED & KNOWN WORDS!

Enter five words the student read incorrectly and five words the student was able to remember. Independent practice, fluency probes, and word cards will be generated automatically using the words entered!

⭐ STEP 3: PRINT!

Simply print the PDF document for weekly sight word work targeted at each students’ precise needs! Great for in-class or homework!

⭐ STEP 4: PROGRESS MONITOR & REPEAT!

Clear the checkboxes and repeat to progress monitor! Generate a new set of worksheets each time!

EACH GRADE LEVEL INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING:

⭐ A PDF developed with form fields and JavaScript with the following pages:

✓ An assessment/progress monitoring page that will automatically count known words and calculate the percent correct while monitoring student progress!

✓ Five worksheets for independent practice of each missed word (find the word, color the word, trace the word, spell the word with word boxes, write the word).

✓ One worksheet for independent practice of all five missed words (trace the word, spell the word with word boxes, write the word).

✓ Five fluency probes with each missed word repeated ten times among the known words for incremental rehearsal.

✓ One fluency probe with only missed words.

✓ One Roll & Read activity combining missed words and known words (first through third only).

✓ Two pages of word cards-10 known words and 10 unknown words.

⭐ A PowerPoint to display the words and a link to the Google Slides version are also included!

Download this FREE RESOURCE to determine if these autofill PDF's will work with your technology:

• FREEBIE! EDITABLE Color by Code! Auto Fill PDF for Differentiated Instruction!

If you find this resource helpful, please leave a review to earn credits toward future TeachShare purchases!

⭐Pre-Primer, Primer, First, Second and Third Grade WORDS!⭐

BUNDLE & SAVE!

✅ ASSESSMENT

✅ PRACTICE

✅ INTERVENTION

⭐ STEP 1: ASSESS!

Use the included presentation in PowerPoint or Google Slides to show the words while checking a box for the words the student knows. Words are automatically counted!

Enter the date and number correct as displayed. Percentage correct is calculated for you!

⭐ STEP 2: ENTER MISSED & KNOWN WORDS!

Enter five words the student read incorrectly and five words the student was able to remember. Independent practice, fluency probes, and word cards will be generated automatically using the words entered!

⭐ STEP 3: PRINT!

Simply print the PDF document for weekly sight word work targeted at each students’ precise needs! Great for in-class or homework!

⭐ STEP 4: PROGRESS MONITOR & REPEAT!

Clear the checkboxes and repeat to progress monitor! Generate a new set of worksheets each time!

EACH GRADE LEVEL INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING:

⭐ A PDF developed with form fields and JavaScript with the following pages:

✓ An assessment/progress monitoring page that will automatically count known words and calculate the percent correct while monitoring student progress!

✓ Five worksheets for independent practice of each missed word (find the word, color the word, trace the word, spell the word with word boxes, write the word).

✓ One worksheet for independent practice of all five missed words (trace the word, spell the word with word boxes, write the word).

✓ Five fluency probes with each missed word repeated ten times among the known words for incremental rehearsal.

✓ One fluency probe with only missed words.

✓ One Roll & Read activity combining missed words and known words (first through third only).

✓ Two pages of word cards-10 known words and 10 unknown words.

⭐ A PowerPoint to display the words and a link to the Google Slides version are also included!

Download this FREE RESOURCE to determine if these autofill PDF's will work with your technology:

• FREEBIE! EDITABLE Color by Code! Auto Fill PDF for Differentiated Instruction!

If you find this resource helpful, please leave a review to earn credits toward future TeachShare purchases!

Making Inferences with Pictures, Passages, Task Cards, and Anchor Charts BUNDLE:

These inferencing worksheets, passages, and task cards are perfect for your 3rd-5th grade students because they provide visual supports as well as a variety of approaches for showing kids how inferencing actually works.

Please refer to the final 7 pages of each file Google links and instructions.

Help your student understand inferencing using visual cues that make sense!

The links for each product in this bundle can be found below:

• MAKING INFERENCES WORKSHEETS AND RIDDLES
• MAKING INFERENCES TASK CARDS
• MAKING INFERENCES ACTIVITIES USING PICTURES

The descriptions of the individual inferences products are below:

MAKING INFERENCES WORKSHEETS:

These inferencing activities contain passages and inference riddles for 3rd-5th grade and include a digital distance learning option in Google Slides. The no-prep worksheets give students practice searching for clues to make inferences as well as creating riddles to be "on the other end" of inferencing.

This inferencing product contains:

• Two instructional pages with examples and explanations (anchor charts) of making inferences
• Ten inferencing passages and related questions designed to show students how inferencing works (these pages also incorporate the inferencing equation with the puzzle pieces)
• Ten pages of riddles where students use inferencing skills to solve the riddle as well as space on each page to create their own riddle (using the same category as the riddle that they solved)

Allowing students to use a variety of inferencing activities increases their understanding of inferencing. For example, creating riddles helps students use inferencing skills at a deeper level.

MAKING INFERENCES TASK CARDS:

This product includes:

• 34 making inferences task cards
• Two instructional pages with examples and explanations of making inferences (anchor charts)
• Answer sheets
• Answer keys

Half of the inference task cards contain passages and the other half includes keyword lists that require students to make inferences about the event or place (as well as add two keywords to the list of inferences). Adding keywords to the list encourages students to use inferencing skills at a deeper level.

MAKING INFERENCES WITH PICTURES:

This making inferences activity uses clip art pictures to help students with inferencing. These making inferences worksheets contain:

• Two instructional pages with examples and explanations of making inferences
• 16 ready-to-use (no prep) worksheets with black and white clip art pictures
• Suggestions for use with the colored pictures
• Eight pages of color-version pictures (that match the printable pictures with two on each page)

You may also be interested in these Language Arts products:

• TASK CARD PRODUCTS
• GRAMMAR PRODUCTS
• LITERATURE UNITS

Context Clues Reading Passages, Worksheets, Task Cards, and Anchor Charts Activities BUNDLE:

Let's face it... teaching context clues can be difficult. NO WORRIES! We've got you covered with these engaging, ready-to-use, no-prep context clues activities!

This Context Clues Activities BUNDLE contains reading passages, worksheets, task cards, and anchor charts for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade.

PLEASE NOTE: The links and instructions for the digital option can be found on the final seven pages of each file.

The individual listings for these context clues activities can be found here:

• CONTEXT CLUES TASK CARDS
• CONTEXT CLUES WORKSHEETS
• CONTEXT CLUES READING PASSAGES

Context Clues Task Cards Description:

These context clues task cards and activities were created for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade. It requires students to use context to make meaning and identify the words or phrases that helped them understand the meaning of an unknown word.

This context clues task cards product includes:

• anchor charts that will help students identify clues in text
• 34 task cards on half sheets
• answer sheet
• answer key

These task cards can be used in stations, small groups, centers, or for early finishers and includes the answer sheets as well as the answer keys.

The following vocabulary words are used in this product:

exhilarated, flourish, conceal, variety, precisely, eerie, deceitful, antiquated, preserved, decrepit, clenched, improbable, glistened, mimicked, obvious, fragile, commenced, remarkable, withstand, exposed, installed, declared, anxious, gloated, pact, pathetic, suspicious, reluctant, participate, surge, lurk, stunned, glared, trudged

Context Clues Worksheets Description:

These Context Clues worksheets offer print-and-go, standards-aligned, context clues activities for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade.

This product includes:

• Four instructional pages
• Four pages of multiple-choice questions
• Four pages of fill in the blank
• Two pages of stories followed by worksheets that ask students to define underlined words using context clues (and also look them up in the dictionary to check for accuracy).

ALL printables include a corresponding Answer Key as well.

This context clues product includes the following vocabulary words:

discard, encompass, vigilant, hesitant, irrational, portable, rejects, resolve, alternate, contribute, predict, condone, integrate, document, approximately, coordinate, correspond, alternative, rely, interact, considerable, confer, dimensions, discontinue, clarify, fraud, tentative, sincere, persistent, preserve, monotonous, remorseful, fragrant, overwhelmed, discontinue, significant, maximize, exclude, compensate, convene, self-sufficient, obligated, lucrative, collision, appalled, nurture, distraught, authority, conceal, laceration, grotesque, defeated, baffled, consequence, bewildered, gouge, hesitation, anxious, integrating, feat, capable, fumbled, desperate, conquer, morphed, and officially

Context Clues Reading Passages Description:

This no-prep Context Clues Reading Passages product offers print-and-go, common core aligned, easy-to-use context clues activities for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade.

This product includes:

• Four instructional pages to help students identify context clues
• Three different (full-page) reading passages
• Three printable worksheets for each passage
• Corresponding answer keys

Note: These activities are meant to accompany dictionaries at the teacher's discretion, so that students can check the accuracy of their work.

This context clues product includes these vocabulary words:

nuances, subtle, arduous, complicates, acquisition, nonsensical, belongings, laborious, exhilarating, incorporate, ensure, trembled, exhausted, attempted, inhale, prevented, anticipation, precision, lyrics, desperation, valiant, defective, escaped, jolted, beamed, remarkable, issued, accumulations, excessive, behoove, accessible, profound, collapse, structural, traipse, massive, secure, locate, effective, havoc, solely, and discretion.

NOTE: THESE FILES INCLUDE A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

These products include a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.

If you teach in a multi-level classroom, have students with a very wide range of needs, or are meeting the needs of students with varying language abilities or students acquiring English, the MULTI-LEVEL MEGA BUNDLE for Context Clues might be right for you. You can check it out here:

• CONTEXT CLUES MULTI-LEVEL MEGA BUNDLE

Searching for context clues activities geared for 2nd, 3rd, or 4th grade (please note that there is a context clues bundle for 2nd-4th grade):

• CONTEXT CLUES TASK CARDS FOR 2ND-4TH GRADE
• CONTEXT CLUES READING PASSAGES FOR 2ND-4TH GRADE
• CONTEXT CLUES WORKSHEETS FOR 2ND-4TH GRADE
• CONTEXT CLUES BUNDLE FOR 2ND-4TH GRADE

The following context clues products have been created for 3rd-5th grade (please note that there is a context clues bundle for 3rd-5th grade):

• CONTEXT CLUES TASK CARDS FOR 3RD-5TH GRADE
• CONTEXT CLUES READING PASSAGES FOR 3RD-5TH GRADE
• CONTEXT CLUES WORKSHEETS FOR 3RD-5TH GRADE
• CONTEXT CLUES BUNDLE FOR 3RD-5TH GRADE

The following context clues products have been created for 4th-6th grade (please note that there is a context clues bundle for 4th-6th grade):

• CONTEXT CLUES READING PASSAGES FOR 4TH-6TH GRADE
• CONTEXT CLUES TASK CARDS FOR 4TH-6TH GRADE
• CONTEXT CLUES WORKSHEETS FOR 4TH-6TH GRADE
• CONTEXT CLUES BUNDLE FOR 4TH-6TH GRADE

Anchor your students' reading skills with these anchor chart posters! In this bundle, you will find anchor charts for the following:

• cause and effect
• context clues
• main idea and details
• making inferences
• point of view
• teaching theme

This file includes the following:

• SIX quick reference reading skills anchor charts that cover all six reading topics in full-color and black-and-white
• 24 additional anchor charts posters with examples in full-color and black-and-white
• Smaller 1/2-page versions of every poster in full-color and black-and-white (for individual student reference or an interactive notebook)
• Printable and digital options

Love these anchor charts? Check out the MEGA BUNDLE HERE:

• Reading Skills Anchor Charts MEGA BUNDLE

Don't need the whole bundle? Check out the smaller BUNDLES HERE:

• Reading Skills Anchor Charts BUNDLE #1
• Reading Skills Anchor Charts BUNDLE #2
• Reading Skills Anchor Charts BUNDLE #3
• Reading Skills Anchor Charts BUNDLE #4

Take a peek at other reading skills anchor charts (and even more are on the way):

• Cause and Effect Anchor Charts Posters
• Context Clues Anchor Charts Posters
• Main Idea and Details Anchor Charts Posters
• Making Inferences Anchor Charts Posters
• Point of View Anchor Charts Posters
• Theme Anchor Charts Posters
• Author's Purpose Anchor Charts Posters
• Compare and Contrast Anchor Charts Posters
• Fact and Opinion Anchor Charts Posters
• Literary Genres Anchor Charts Posters
• Nonfiction Text Features Anchor Charts Posters
• Story Elements Anchor Charts Posters
• Analogies Anchor Charts Posters
• Greek and Latin Roots Anchor Charts Posters
• Homophones, Homonyms, and Homographs Anchor Charts Posters
• Prefixes and Suffixes Anchor Charts Posters
• Shades of Meaning Anchor Charts Posters
• Synonyms and Antonyms Anchor Charts Posters
• Capitalization Anchor Charts
• Complete Sentences Anchor Charts
• Figurative Language Anchor Charts
• Formal and Informal Language Anchor Charts
• Punctuation Anchor Charts
• Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences Anchor Charts

Please reach out with any questions you may have!

Kirsten Tulsian has 18 years of experience in elementary education. She has been a homeroom teacher for first grade, third grade, and fourth grade, as well as ESL. She has also been a school counselor for grades PK-6, an ESL pullout teacher for K-6, and a Reading Recovery Teacher. She received her Bachelor’s degree in elementary education and psychology from The University of Iowa and a Master’s of Education in school counseling from Sam Houston State University. She believes that students make the most progress when they are engaged in their hearts and minds. Her resources offer relevant, rigorous, engaging content that nurtures the whole child.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Copyright © Kirsten’s Kaboodle. All Rights Reserved.

• Purchasing this product gives the purchaser ONE LICENSE to this product. This allows the purchaser the right to reproduce this product for HIS/HER class ONLY.

• Duplication for an entire team, school, or school district is strictly forbidden.

• If other teachers would like copies of this product, please direct them to my store.

• You may not reproduce, redistribute, or post this item on a blog or website for download (free or paid).

• Copying any part of this product (even for a classroom website) is also in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

• You may not modify, copy, or alter this product in any way.

• Please feel free to spread the word about this product via social media or blog post. A link to the product (or my store) is much appreciated.

Context Clues Activities: Reading Passages, Worksheets, & Task Cards BUNDLE

This context clues bundle for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade includes three product files which can be found here:

CONTEXT CLUES TASK CARDS FOR 2ND-4TH GRADE

CONTEXT CLUES READING PASSAGES FOR 2ND-4TH GRADE

CONTEXT CLUES WORKSHEETS FOR 2ND-4TH GRADE

CONTEXT CLUES TASK CARDS DESCRIPTION:

This no prep Context Clues task cards product offers print and go, common core aligned, context clues activities for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade.

This easy to use product includes:

• 4 instructional pages
• 34 (half-sheet) task cards
• 2 answer sheets
• corresponding answer keys (these include sample answers)

PLEASE NOTE: Many teachers have indicated that my context clues products are very rigorous for their students. If you are a second grade teacher, please take a look the vocabulary words included (as well as the format) to determine the appropriateness for your own group this year. Your students may need extra assistance and scaffolding to complete the activities.

Click HERE to view a short video that showcases some of the contents in my context clues products. PLEASE NOTE that the contents of this video showcase context clues products for upper grades with the same task card format uploaded here.

Vocabulary words include:

majority, exhausted, precise, serve, complicated, bothered, appreciation, generous, involves, brief, cherish, starve, suitable, recall, ordeal, method, locate, outcome, route, remark, scattered, sensitive, available, sympathetic, elated, location, opponents, portion, schedule, irritable, terminated, immense, reveal, and rehearse

CONTEXT CLUES READING PASSAGES DESCRIPTION:

This no prep Context Clues Reading Passages product offers print and go, common core aligned, easy to use context clues activities for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade. You will also find instructions for digital distance learning through Google Slides.

This product includes:

• four instructional pages to help students identify context clues
• 3 different (full page) reading passages
• three printable worksheets for each passage
• ALL worksheets do have a corresponding answer key as well

Note: These activities are meant to accompany dictionaries at the teacher's discretion, so that students can check the accuracy of their work.

This context clues product includes these vocabulary words: awkward, scenario, attempt, insecure, confident, attached, unsure, resist, urge, regret, vanished, complete, tasks, aware, situation, specific, unusual, local, transported, provide, discover, locate, search, attentively, familiar, distraught, informed, scavenging, shuffle, bizarre, acquired, vision, rely, locate, assortment, domesticated, spines, hollow, defensive, threatened, and connect

CONTEXT CLUES WORKSHEETS DESCRIPTION:

This no prep Context Clues Worksheets product offers print and go, common core aligned, context clues activities for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade.

This easy to use product includes:

• 4 instructional pages
• 4 pages of multiple choice questions
• 4 pages of fill in the blank
• 2 pages of reading passages followed by worksheets that ask students to define underlined words using context clues (and also look them up in the dictionary to check for accuracy)
• corresponding answer keys

PLEASE NOTE: Many teachers have indicated that my context clues products are very rigorous for their students. If you are a second grade teacher, please take a look the vocabulary words included (as well as the format) to determine the appropriateness for your own group this year. Your students may need extra assistance and scaffolding to complete the activities.

Vocabulary words include: accurate, accuse, anxious, attempt, avoided, assistance, cautious, contains, cruel, certain, courteous, contribute, conflict, consoled, confident, consistently, combination, desire, distracted, dilemma, displays, demolish, entire, essential, exchange, expect, genuine, guide, horrific, improve, indicate, mend, misplace, opinion, opportunity, option, observe, prepare, petrified, probably, purchase, reaction, reverse, repair, ritual, sluggish, scatter, solution, support, tension, unique, vacant, and volunteered

NOTE: THESE FILES INCLUDE A DIGITAL DISTANCE LEARNING OPTION!

These products include a digital option (as well as the no prep printable option). The instructions for utilizing the digital portion appear at the end of the packet.

If you teach in a multi-level classroom, have students with a very wide range of needs, or are meeting the needs of students with varying language abilities or students acquiring English, the MULTI-LEVEL MEGA BUNDLE for Context Clues might be right for you. You can check it out here:

CONTEXT CLUES MULTI-LEVEL MEGA BUNDLE

Searching for context clues activities geared for 2nd, 3rd, or 4th grade (please note that there is a context clues bundle for 2nd-4th grade):

TASK CARDS FOR 2ND-4TH GRADE

READING PASSAGES FOR 2ND-4TH GRADE

WORKSHEETS FOR 2ND-4TH GRADE

BUNDLE FOR 2ND-4TH GRADE

The following context clues products have been created for 3rd-5th grade (please note that there is a context clues bundle for 3rd-5th grade):

TASK CARDS FOR 3RD-5TH GRADE

READING PASSAGES FOR 3RD-5TH GRADE

WORKSHEETS FOR 3RD-5TH GRADE

BUNDLE FOR 3RD-5TH GRADE

The following context clues products have been created for 4th-6th grade (please note that there is a context clues bundle for 4th-6th grade):

READING PASSAGES FOR 4TH-6TH GRADE

TASK CARDS FOR 4TH-6TH GRADE

WORKSHEETS FOR 4TH-6TH GRADE

BUNDLE FOR 4TH-6TH GRADE

Anchor your students' reading skills with these anchor chart posters! In this bundle, you will find anchor charts for the following:

• author's purpose
• compare and contrast
• fact and opinion
• genres of literature
• nonfiction text features
• story elements

This file includes the following:

• SIX quick reference reading skills anchor chart covering all six reading topics in full-color and black-and-white
• 24 additional anchor charts posters with examples in full-color and black-and-white
• Smaller 1/2-page versions of every poster in full-color and black-and-white (for individual student reference or an interactive notebook)
• Printable and digital options

Love these anchor charts? Check out the MEGA BUNDLE HERE:

• Reading Skills Anchor Charts MEGA BUNDLE

Don't need the whole bundle? Check out the smaller BUNDLES HERE:

• Reading Skills Anchor Charts BUNDLE #1
• Reading Skills Anchor Charts BUNDLE #2
• Reading Skills Anchor Charts BUNDLE #3
• Reading Skills Anchor Charts BUNDLE #4

Take a peek at other reading skills anchor charts (and even more are on the way):

• Cause and Effect Anchor Charts Posters
• Context Clues Anchor Charts Posters
• Main Idea and Details Anchor Charts Posters
• Making Inferences Anchor Charts Posters
• Point of View Anchor Charts Posters
• Theme Anchor Charts Posters
• Author's Purpose Anchor Charts Posters
• Compare and Contrast Anchor Charts Posters
• Fact and Opinion Anchor Charts Posters
• Literary Genres Anchor Charts Posters
• Nonfiction Text Features Anchor Charts Posters
• Story Elements Anchor Charts Posters
• Analogies Anchor Charts Posters
• Greek and Latin Roots Anchor Charts Posters
• Homophones, Homonyms, and Homographs Anchor Charts Posters
• Prefixes and Suffixes Anchor Charts Posters
• Shades of Meaning Anchor Charts Posters
• Synonyms and Antonyms Anchor Charts Posters
• Capitalization Anchor Charts
• Complete Sentences Anchor Charts
• Figurative Language Anchor Charts
• Formal and Informal Language Anchor Charts
• Punctuation Anchor Charts
• Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences Anchor Charts

Please reach out with any questions you may have!

Kirsten Tulsian has 18 years of experience in elementary education. She has been a homeroom teacher for first grade, third grade, and fourth grade, as well as ESL. She has also been a school counselor for grades PK-6, an ESL pullout teacher for K-6, and a Reading Recovery Teacher. She received her Bachelor’s degree in elementary education and psychology from The University of Iowa and a Master’s of Education in school counseling from Sam Houston State University. She believes that students make the most progress when they are engaged in their hearts and minds. Her resources offer relevant, rigorous, engaging content that nurtures the whole child.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Copyright © Kirsten’s Kaboodle. All Rights Reserved.

• Purchasing this product gives the purchaser ONE LICENSE to this product. This allows the purchaser to reproduce this product for HIS/HER class ONLY.

• Duplication for an entire team, school, or district is strictly forbidden.

• If other teachers would like copies of this product, please direct them to my store.

• You may not reproduce, redistribute, or post this item on a blog or website for download (free or paid).

• Copying any part of this product (even for a classroom website) violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

• You may not modify, copy, or alter this product in any way.

• Please feel free to spread the word about this product via social media or blog post. A link to the product (or my store) is much appreciated.

Anchor your students' reading skills with these anchor chart posters! In this bundle, you will find anchor charts for the following:

• analogies
• Greek and Latin roots
• homophones, homonyms, & homophones
• prefixes and suffixes
• shades of meaning
• synonyms & antonyms

This file includes the following:

• SIX quick reading skills reference anchor chart in full-color and black-and-white covering each of the six topics
• 24 additional anchor charts posters with examples in full-color and black-and-white
• Smaller 1/2-page versions of every poster in full-color and black-and-white (for individual student reference or an interactive notebook)
• Printable and digital options

Love these anchor charts? Check out the MEGA BUNDLE HERE:

• Reading Skills Anchor Charts MEGA BUNDLE

Don't need the whole bundle? Check out the smaller BUNDLES HERE:

• Reading Skills Anchor Charts BUNDLE #1
• Reading Skills Anchor Charts BUNDLE #2
• Reading Skills Anchor Charts BUNDLE #3
• Reading Skills Anchor Charts BUNDLE #4

Take a peek at other reading skills anchor charts (and even more are on the way):

• Cause and Effect Anchor Charts Posters
• Context Clues Anchor Charts Posters
• Main Idea and Details Anchor Charts Posters
• Making Inferences Anchor Charts Posters
• Point of View Anchor Charts Posters
• Theme Anchor Charts Posters
• Author's Purpose Anchor Charts Posters
• Compare and Contrast Anchor Charts Posters
• Fact and Opinion Anchor Charts Posters
• Literary Genres Anchor Charts Posters
• Nonfiction Text Features Anchor Charts Posters
• Story Elements Anchor Charts Posters
• Analogies Anchor Charts Posters
• Greek and Latin Roots Anchor Charts Posters
• Homophones, Homonyms, and Homographs Anchor Charts Posters
• Prefixes and Suffixes Anchor Charts Posters
• Shades of Meaning Anchor Charts Posters
• Synonyms and Antonyms Anchor Charts Posters
• Capitalization Anchor Charts
• Complete Sentences Anchor Charts
• Figurative Language Anchor Charts
• Formal and Informal Language Anchor Charts
• Punctuation Anchor Charts
• Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences Anchor Charts

Please reach out with any questions you may have!

Kirsten Tulsian has 18 years of experience in elementary education. She has been a homeroom teacher for first grade, third grade, and fourth grade, as well as ESL. She has also been a school counselor for grades PK-6, an ESL pullout teacher for K-6, and a Reading Recovery Teacher. She received her Bachelor’s degree in elementary education and psychology from The University of Iowa and a Master’s of Education in school counseling from Sam Houston State University. She believes that students make the most progress when they are engaged in their hearts and minds. Her resources offer relevant, rigorous, engaging content that nurtures the whole child.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Copyright © Kirsten’s Kaboodle. All Rights Reserved.

• Purchasing this product gives the purchaser ONE LICENSE to this product. This allows the purchaser to reproduce this product for HIS/HER class ONLY.

• Duplication for an entire team, school, or district is strictly forbidden.

• If other teachers would like copies of this product, please direct them to my store.

• You may not reproduce, redistribute, or post this item on a blog or website for download (free or paid).

• Copying any part of this product (even for a classroom website) violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

• You may not modify, copy, or alter this product in any way.

• Please feel free to spread the word about this product via social media or blog post. A link to the product (or my store) is much appreciated.

Anchor your students' reading skills with these anchor chart posters! In this bundle, you will find anchor charts for the following:

• capitalization
• complete sentences
• figurative language
• formal and informal language
• punctuation
• simple, compound, and complex sentences

This file includes the following:

• SIX quick reading skills reference anchor chart in full-color and black-and-white covering each of the six topics
• 24 additional anchor charts posters with examples in full-color and black-and-white
• Smaller 1/2-page versions of every poster in full-color and black-and-white (for individual student reference or an interactive notebook)
• Printable and digital options

Love these anchor charts? Check out the MEGA BUNDLE HERE:

• Reading Skills Anchor Charts MEGA BUNDLE

Don't need the whole bundle? Check out the smaller BUNDLES HERE:

• Reading Skills Anchor Charts BUNDLE #1
• Reading Skills Anchor Charts BUNDLE #2
• Reading Skills Anchor Charts BUNDLE #3
• Reading Skills Anchor Charts BUNDLE #4

Take a peek at other reading skills anchor charts (and even more are on the way):

• Cause and Effect Anchor Charts Posters
• Context Clues Anchor Charts Posters
• Main Idea and Details Anchor Charts Posters
• Making Inferences Anchor Charts Posters
• Point of View Anchor Charts Posters
• Theme Anchor Charts Posters
• Author's Purpose Anchor Charts Posters
• Compare and Contrast Anchor Charts Posters
• Fact and Opinion Anchor Charts Posters
• Literary Genres Anchor Charts Posters
• Nonfiction Text Features Anchor Charts Posters
• Story Elements Anchor Charts Posters
• Analogies Anchor Charts Posters
• Greek and Latin Roots Anchor Charts Posters
• Homophones, Homonyms, and Homographs Anchor Charts Posters
• Prefixes and Suffixes Anchor Charts Posters
• Shades of Meaning Anchor Charts Posters
• Synonyms and Antonyms Anchor Charts Posters
• Capitalization Anchor Charts
• Complete Sentences Anchor Charts
• Figurative Language Anchor Charts
• Formal and Informal Language Anchor Charts
• Punctuation Anchor Charts
• Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences Anchor Charts

Please reach out with any questions you may have!

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Are you looking for comprehensive, no-prep (sub-plans), H-digraph interactive lessons? This digital phonics bundle has maze reading, tongue twisters, whole class reward systems, consonant digraphs worksheets, PLUS a review lesson of all five digraphs, and so, so much MORE.

This bundle saves you 20% on all six lessons PLUS you get this bonus file:

Consonant Digraph Learning Station Activities | H Brothers CH, SH, TH, WH, PH

Problem Types Include: identifying the CH, WH, TH, PH, SH digraphs through sound, sight, and writing

Solving teacher problems: 

⭐ includes games students BEG to play

⭐ capturing - and sustaining - students’ attention for each lesson

⭐ TRUE zero-prep lessons with activities. Pull these lessons out in a pinch!

⭐ parents/guardians can use this for a fun homeschooling lesson

I use these very same lessons in my own classroom and I’ve become popular for getting quiet, shy, and unwilling students to participate and have fun!

NOTE: This resource includes both a Google Slide™ presentation and printable worksheets for each lesson. Please review the product images and preview for samples of the included slides and pages.

Each Presentation Includes:

   ✏ structured and guided teacher notes for a true no-prep product

   ✏ digital detailed lesson plan for quick reference 

   ✏ an exciting built-in reward system (students love this feature!)

   ✏ a fun and silly warm-up question to get students engaged

   ✏ topic warm-up question and topic introduction

   ✏ examples of H Digraph sounds in the beginning, middle, and end of words with pictures

   ✏ unscrambling the H-digraph word activity

   ✏ visual activities for students to find pictures of a CH, SH, WH, TH, or PH sound, as well as activities to find what sound pictures have in common

   ✏ identifying the H-brother word within a group of words activity

   ✏ digital consonant digraph tongue twister

   ✏ images of the printable worksheets for easy instruction

   ✏ My signature Adventure Time with Mavis the Monster game (students love how much Mavis gets into trouble!)

   ✏ Monster Maze! (students must read the h-brother words to see where the monster is going!)

The Worksheets for Each Product Include**:**

   ✏ 1 comprehensive lesson plan

   ✏ 2 craft activities (cut and paste)

   ✏ 2 group activities (working in small groups)

   ✏ 2 enrichment worksheets

   ✏ 1 homework sheet to strengthen retention

   ✏ 4 different exit tickets/slips

   ✏ 1 digraph tongue twister

   ✏ No prep! Simply print and distribute (with or without the presentation) 

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A NOVEL STUDY Book Companion for THE CHRISTMAS PIG based on the book by J.K Rowling.

This 100 page Novel Study includes highly engaging and comprehensive questions and activities that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.

This is a NO-PREP resource that has been created with questions and activities following the order of the book. Students will be able to respond to each section after they have read it. Teachers can use this resource as either an independent work packet for students or as a guide to questions and discussion whilst working alongside students. Students will cover a wide range of Curriculum Standards in context.

This novel study is ideal as an independent activity or follow-up to the book.

AN ANSWER KEY IS INCLUDED

Activities include:

• Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, cause and effect, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context.
• Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view.
• Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme.
• Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses.
• Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work.
• Applying and Synthesising - engaging activities designed for your student to show a deeper understanding of the story.
• 1 Non-fiction passage with questions - Toys
• Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story including diary writing
• Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative.
• Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues.

All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!

This product is not associated with this book's author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product.

Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases.

You are welcome to request a novel study in the questions and answers section of my shop!

*** INCLUDES CHRISTMAS TASK CARDS FOR EARLY FINISHERS OR CENTERS***

Thank you for your continued support

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for DIARY OF A WIMPY KID No Brainer by Jeff Kinney.

This 60 page BOOK COMPANION is a highly engaging and comprehensive literature unit that allows your students to respond to a story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.

With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter, students will cover a wide range of the English Curriculum Standards in context.

The unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. Follow-up activities include a comprehension follow up and one to three extra literacy task for each chapter. The extra activities allow for students to demonstrate their understanding through tasks that require them to synthesise, analyse and apply, drawing from their understanding of the story.

The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text.

Activities include:

• COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER
• Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context.
• Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view.
• Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme.
• Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses.
• Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work.
• Applying and Synthesising
• Research - relevant to the story and children's interests
• Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story
• Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative.
• Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues
• Answers for comprehension questions included.

All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!

This product is not associated with this book's author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product.

Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases.

Thank you for your continued support.

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for THE BOY AT THE BACK OF THE CLASS by Onjali Q. Rauf.

This 78 page BOOK COMPANION is a highly engaging and comprehensive literature unit that allows your students to respond to a story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.

With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter, students will cover a wide range of the English Curriculum Standards in context.

The unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. Chapters have been grouped for comprehension questions as some chapters in this book are only one page long. Follow-up activities include a comprehension follow up and one to three extra literacy task for each group of chapters. The extra activities allow for students to demonstrate their understanding through tasks that require them to synthesise, analyse and apply, drawing from their understanding of the story.

The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text.

Activities include:

• COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER
• Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context.
• Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view.
• Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme.
• Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses.
• Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work.
• Applying and Synthesising
• Research - relevant to the story and children's interests
• Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story
• Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative.
• Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues
• Answers for comprehension questions included.

All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!

This product is not associated with this book's author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product.

Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases.

Thank you for your continued support.

A NOVEL STUDY for THERE'S A BOY IN THE GIRL'S BATHROOM based on the book by Louis Sachar.

This 64 page Novel Study includes highly engaging and comprehensive questions and activities that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.

This is a NO-PREP resource that has been created with questions and activities following the order of the book. Students will be able to respond to each section after they have read it. Teachers can use this resource as either an independent work packet for students or as a guide to questions and discussion whilst working alongside students. Students will cover a wide range of Curriculum Standards in context.

This novel study is ideal as an independent activity or follow-up to the book.

AN ANSWER KEY IS INCLUDED

Activities include:

• Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, cause and effect, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context.
• Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view.
• Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme.
• Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses.
• Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work and morphology.
• Applying and Synthesising - engaging activities designed for your student to show a deeper understanding of the story.
• 3 Non-fiction passage with questions - Bullies
• Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story including diary writing
• Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative.
• Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues.

All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!

This product is not associated with this book's author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product.

Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases.

You are welcome to request a novel study in the questions and answers section of my shop!

Thank you for your continued support.

A NOVEL STUDY for CODE NAME BANANAS based on the book by David Walliams.

This 74 page Novel Study includes highly engaging and comprehensive questions and activities that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.

This is a NO-PREP resource that has been created with questions and activities following the order of the book. Students will be able to respond to each section after they have read it. Teachers can use this resource as either an independent work packet for students or as a guide to questions and discussion whilst working alongside students. Students will cover a wide range of Curriculum Standards in context.

This novel study is ideal as an independent activity or follow-up to the book.

AN ANSWER KEY IS INCLUDED

Activities include:

• Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, cause and effect, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context.
• Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view.
• Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme.
• Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses.
• Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work and morphology.
• Applying and Synthesising - engaging activities designed for your student to show a deeper understanding of the story.
• 4 Non-fiction passages with questions - World War 2, Barrage Balloons, Gorillas and Submarines
• Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story including diary writing
• Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative.
• Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues.

All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!

This product is not associated with this book's author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product.

Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases.

You are welcome to request a novel study in the questions and answers section of my shop!

Thank you for your continued support.

A NOVEL STUDY for THE LAST MAPMAKER based on the book by Christina Soontornvat.

This 89 page Novel Study includes highly engaging and comprehensive questions and activities that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.

This is a NO-PREP resource that has been created with questions and activities following the order of the book. Students will be able to respond to each section after they have read it. Teachers can use this resource as either an independent work packet for students or as a guide to questions and discussion whilst working alongside students. Students will cover a wide range of Curriculum Standards in context.

This novel study is ideal as an independent activity or follow-up to the book.

AN ANSWER KEY IS INCLUDED

Activities include:

• Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, cause and effect, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context.
• Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view.
• Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme.
• Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses.
• Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work.
• Applying and Synthesising - engaging activities designed for your student to show a deeper understanding of the story.
• 3 Non-fiction passages with questions - Dragons, The 50th Parallel South and Whales and Whaling.
• Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story including diary writing
• Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative.
• Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues.

All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!

This product is not associated with this book's author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product.

Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases.

You are welcome to request a novel study in the questions and answers section of my shop!

Thank you for your continued support.

A NOVEL STUDY and Reading Comprehension Unit for THE WILD ROBOT PROTECTS by Peter Brown.

This 93 page BOOK COMPANION is a highly engaging and comprehensive literature unit that allows your students to respond to a story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.

With comprehension questions and activities for each chapter, students will cover a wide range of the English Curriculum Standards in context.

The unit can be followed chapter by chapter, with no extra preparation or planning required by the teacher. Chapters have been grouped for comprehension questions as some chapters in this book are only one page long. Follow-up activities include a comprehension follow up and one to three extra literacy task for each group of chapters. The extra activities allow for students to demonstrate their understanding through tasks that require them to synthesise, analyse and apply, drawing from their understanding of the story.

The responses in the unit have been planned and arranged so that your students will practise a wide range of comprehension strategies in context. It has been designed to promote thinking and comprehension. Tasks can be completed independently, collaboratively or alongside a teacher. The unit has been planned so that over the course of the book, students will become familiar with and well-practised in using comprehension strategies to make meaning from text.

Activities include:

• COMPREHENSION ACTIVITIES FOR EACH CHAPTER
• Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context.
• Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view.
• Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme.
• Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses.
• Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work.
• Applying and Synthesising
• Research - relevant to the story and children's interests
• Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story
• Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative.
• Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues
• Answers for comprehension questions included.

All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!

This product is not associated with this book's author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product.

Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases.

Thank you for your continued support.

A NOVEL STUDY for THE MISFITS A Royal Conundrum based on the book by Lisa Yee.

This 65 page Novel Study includes highly engaging and comprehensive questions and activities that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.

This is a NO-PREP resource that has been created with questions and activities following the order of the book. Students will be able to respond to each chapter after they have read it. Teachers can use this resource as either an independent work packet for students or as a guide to questions and discussion whilst working alongside students. Students will cover a wide range of Curriculum Standards in context.

This novel study is ideal as an independent activity or follow-up to the book.

AN ANSWER KEY IS INCLUDED

Activities include:

• Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, cause and effect, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context.
• Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view.
• Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme.
• Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses.
• Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work.
• Applying and Synthesising - engaging activities designed for your student to show a deeper understanding of the story.
• 2 Non-fiction passages with questions - Panic Rooms and Pirates.
• Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story including diary writing
• Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative.
• Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues.

All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!

This product is not associated with this book's author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product.

Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases.

You are welcome to request a novel study in the questions and answers section of my shop!

Thank you for your continued support.

A NOVEL STUDY for THE AMAZING STORY OF ADOLPHUS TIPS by Michael Morpurgo

This 64 page Novel Study includes highly engaging and comprehensive questions and activities that allow your students to respond to the story by using a wide range of reading comprehension strategies and skills.

This is a NO-PREP resource that has been created with questions and activities following the order of the book. Students will be able to respond to each section after they have read it. Each section is approximately two diary entries in the story. Teachers can use this resource as either an independent work packet for students or as a guide to questions and discussion whilst working alongside students. Students will cover a wide range of the ELA Common Core State Standards in context.

AN ANSWER KEY IS INCLUDED

Activities include:

• Comprehension strategies - inference, prediction , visualizing, questioning, retrieving information, activating prior knowledge, making connections, cause and effect, summarizing, analyzing, synthesizing, understanding vocabulary in context.
• Literacy Skills - sequencing, cause and effect, main idea and events, compare and contrast, point of view.
• Story elements - character descriptions, character analysis, character emotions, character challenges, setting, plot, theme.
• Book response - creative responses, critical thinking, partner discussion response, written responses.
• Vocabulary - a focus on vocabulary words in context, word work.
• Applying and Synthesising - engaging activities designed for your student to show a deeper understanding of the story.
• Research - relevant to the story including London Evacuees, Nine Lives of Cats, Life in the Trenches and D-Day.
• Written tasks - using a range of genres as relevant to the story including persuasive writing, diary writing and personal narrative.
• Creative Thinking - engaging activities allowing student to apply their own knowledge and themes from the story to be creative.
• Critical Thinking - using themes from the story to consider wider issues

All activities have been designed with student engagement at the forefront. In responding to the book, students will be required to think both within and beyond the text. Children learn best when they are having fun! Even better that they are learning the love of books at the same time!

This product is not associated with this book's author or publishing company. The book must be purchased separately in order to be used alongside this product.

Please follow me for more literacy units - particularly new releases.

You are welcome to request a novel study in the questions and answers section of my shop!

Thank you for your continued support.