5th Grade Reading Strategies Centers

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:

1. inference
2. evidence
3. fact vs. opinion
4. text structure
5. author's purpose
6. vocabulary
7. text features.

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.

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✅ 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.

Watch your students build confidence in their reading skills as they analyze, assess, and connect with the text like never before! This ELA Vocabulary Scavenger Hunt Activity is designed specifically for 3rd-6th grade teachers to help students review and understand essential reading terms interactively and memorably.

Students will embark on a quest to find clue cards hidden around the classroom. Each card contains a vocabulary term, its definition, and an example in context. As they discover each card, they'll record the information on their student sheets, reinforcing their understanding of critical ELA terms.

Benefits:

• Encourages active learning and movement
• Reinforces vocabulary comprehension in a fun, interactive way
• Promotes collaboration and discussion among students
• Saves you valuable planning time with ready-to-use materials
• Provides a meaningful way to assess vocabulary understanding

What's Included:

• 12 ELA Vocabulary Terms with Definitions:
• Scavenger Hunt Clue Cards
• Student Recording Sheets
• Teacher's Guide with Step-by-Step Instructions
• Answer Keys

Words Included :

1- Analyze

2- Assess

3- Explain

4- Notice

5- Share

6- Theme

7- Genre

8- Reflect

9- First Read

10- Question

11- Close Read

12-Discuss

Get your ELA Vocabulary Scavenger Hunt Activity today and Reading Terms review the highlight of your classroom!

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Ignite critical thinking with these 52 reader-response question cards that can be used for any fiction book or text!

This time-saving resource will provide you with a wide variety of questions with all the main elements of a fictional story to teach and assess the reader’s comprehension of the text.

You will also find two different response sheets for written responses!

Elements and Skills Covered:

•Plot-Climax

•Sequencing Events

•Characterization

•Problem & Solution

•Theme/Author’s Purpose

• Figurative Language

•Setting

•Mood

•Point of View

•Cause and Effect

•Summary

•Dialogue

This is the PERFECT RESOURCE for:

•Centers, Literature Circles, Partner Work-

Students ask each other the questions and form discussions.

•Guided reading, Small Groups-

Give to any teacher, teacher assistant, etc as they work with students during and/or after any text.

•Readers Workshop, Whole Class Instruction

Pull out a specific question as an introduction to a mini lesson. Keep them on hand as you assess understanding during/after a read aloud or novel.

•Independent Reading Time, At Home

Choose a card for the student to respond to during and/or after your classroom independent reading time. They could use the response sheet to write their answer. Send home with parents so they can have a variety of questions to ask their child as they read at home.

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Do you want some bite-sized reading comprehension activities packed full of fun and interesting nocturnal animal-themed passages and questions? This ten-page product is perfect for:

   ✏ Getting students interested in close reading

   ✏ Learning a ton of fun, interesting facts about the fall season

   ✏ Centers activities, homework sheets, or homeschooling work

This resource includes:

   ✏ 10 nocturnal animal-themed reading comprehension passages with questions

   ✏ Answer keys

   ✏ No prep! Simply print and distribute.

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Posters including 17 literary devices which are easy to print and use in your classroom. Add them to your word wall or brighten up a reading area.

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Bookmarks, Reading Comprehension Strategies and Skills Interactive Bookmarks

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☆ Reading Strategies Bookmarks

☆ File Format: PDF Zip File

☆ Excellent for any grade or subject!

This resource includes:

☆ 12 Reading Strategy Bookmarks

Enhance your students’ reading comprehension with Reading Strategy Bookmarks! This set includes 10 attractive bookmarks, each featuring sentence stems aligned with essential reading strategies, such as predicting, visualizing, and summarizing. These bookmarks serve as handy tools to stimulate thinking, increase comprehension, and actively engage students in reading and discussion. The sentence stems can also be used to support students’ writing, making them versatile for various activities. Perfect for any text, these bookmarks help students develop deeper understanding and become more confident readers. Great for use during independent reading, group work, or homework assignments!

You can print on gloss or photo paper and laminate for optimal quality!

Distribution Idea: Each sheet contains 4 Reading Strategy Bookmarks, so you can print all 10 pages to create a total of 40 bookmarks. Let students pick and choose the ones they want to use—making it a fun and interactive activity!

Reading Strategies featured in this set:

☆ Determining Importance

☆ Making Inferences

☆ Questioning

☆ Evaluating

☆ Predicting

☆ Summarizing

☆ Visualizing

☆ Text-to-Self Connections

☆ Text-to-Text Connections

☆ Text-to-World Connections

These bookmarks are a versatile and thoughtful resource to encourage a love of reading! They’re perfect for classroom use, school libraries, prizes, or even as a small gift to inspire your students to explore new books.

You may:

☆ Print and cut each one out (as there are four bookmarks on each sheet) ☆ Photocopy onto card stock paper, or laminate them, for long lasting use. ☆ Hole-punch the tops and tie a ribbon through!

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⭐ Your purchase includes one copy to be used in a single classroom. If you are looking for multiple copies, please be sure to purchase additional licenses.

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Halloween Themed Reading Comprehension Passage & Questions for Literacy Centres

Looking for the perfect addition to your Halloween themed literacy centres? This engaging reading comprehension passage, featuring the story of Wanda the witch, will captivate your students while reinforcing key reading skills! Wanda’s journey from a mischievous, lonely witch to a kind hearted friend offers a fun and heartwarming Halloween narrative that your students will love, while also aligning with key literacy goals.

This resource includes:

• A beautifully written halloween themed reading comprehension passage that is perfect to include in your
• 2 multiple choice questions to assess comprehension.
• 2 open ended questions to promote critical thinking and deeper discussion.
• Thought provoking opinion question to inspire independent exploration and creativity and further develop comprehension and understanding.

Designed for Year 3-6 students, this Halloween comprehension passage is ideal for small group instruction, independent work, or as part of a spooky literacy centre. With a mix of fun and meaningful learning, your students will not only practice essential reading comprehension skills but also explore themes like kindness, friendship, and personal growth.

Why You’ll Love This Resource:

• Halloween themed: Perfect for incorporating the magic of the season into your literacy centres or activities.
• Flexible use: Great for literacy centres, homework, or whole class discussions.
• Encourages critical thinking: Open ended comprehension questions that push students to think beyond the text.

Get your students excited for Halloween while boosting their reading comprehension skills! This resource is easy to prep and guaranteed to add some spooky fun to your classroom.

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Do you teach 5th grade science? Do you use the Discovery Education curriculum? If so this is a wonderful vocabulary resource for you! Even if you don't use Discovery Education these vocabulary words still follow the NGSS 5th grade standards. This bundle includes 8 units of vocabulary with answer keys

Each Vocabulary Match Includes:

• A printable page for students.
• Easy matching by writing the letter of the correct definition on the line.
• Answer keys

Using these vocabulary matches is a great way to build students' comprehension when they practice learning the vocabulary words they are reading in the text.

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15 Commonly Confused Words J-W with engaging CCSS activities for students to learn. Includes: J-W game with fill-in-the-blank, definitions, make your own sentences/slides (individual/groups & competitive play) 2 Crossword puzzles with Commonly Confused Words 2 Word Searches with Commonly Confused Words All answer sheets included Directions and Suggestions with Extensions Words used are: 1. jewel joule 2. knew new 3. know no4. lay lie 5. loose lose6. moral morale 7. morning mourning 8. nose knows 9. none no one 10. passed past 11. pole poll 12. principal principle 13. rain reign 14. road rode15. sight site cite 16. stationary stationery 17. their there they’re 18. to too two 19. warn worn 20. weather whether Students will have fun learning these Commonly Confused Words.

Have your middle schoolers regressed in their reading strategies, or do you have students that require explicit strategies relating to their fluency and phrasing? This collection of slides is intended for big kids who need extra support. The language is intended for grades 5 through 8. They're not babyish, and the texts used are at the level of your pre-teen and teen crowds!

This 35-page document provides you with posters (which you can display digitally as anchor charts, or have them printed), mentor texts to model the strategy or do a shared reading with your students, and independent task prompts.

In this document, you'll find:

• 9 Anchor Charts reflecting 9 different strategies.

• "I can read less common words with fluency."

• "I can make sense of my reading."

• "I can read with intonation and expression."

• "I can read with phrasing."

• "I can make my voice match the punctuation."

• "I can warm up my fluency by reading an easy book."

• "I can pay attention to punctuation."

• "Hear me out!"

• "I can be a helpful reading partner."

• 10 mentor texts.

• 8 independent tasks (often using writer's notebooks or post-its.)

I translate the majority of my documents to have both English and French versions; however, this is an English-only document.

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• spelling PRE- AND POST-test - 3 pages (test, key, info). It has 10 pairs of words and an EASEL OPTION. Students will choose the correctly spelled word from each pair. (anything EASEL or DIGITAL might function differently via TeachShare.)

• vowels / consonants in boxes for tactile/visual spelling - they cut and order the letters with given words. It's 17 pages (including 1 info page). All words are 6 LETTER WORDS with 3 VOWELS AND 3 CONSONTANTS. I've differentiated for higher and lesser difficulties (5 words for regular, higher, and lesser).

• drawing with rhyming words - 10 options, 12 pages. Using 3+ rhyming words from the list, they'll draw an original picture.

• all 3 activities have a create your own option

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Your 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders will love practicing reading out loud with these engaging and high-interest sentences!  This set includes 48 low-prep sentences perfect for practicing reading fluency with a computer and gaming theme.  Quick and easy setup plus clear student directions make these activities ideal for independent practice, literacy centers, and homeschooling families!

High-interest topics will motivate your reluctant readers. Students will love reading these sentences to practice reading out loud! The sentences are appropriate for grades 3-5. 

Here’s what you’ll get:

• 48 sentences on a specific high-interest topic/theme
• Pictorial instructions page + written instructions
• Black sentence page to customize
• Certificate of completion to print and color
• Progress tracker
• Extension activities 

Ideas for use:

The format is perfect if you have daily fluency practice or offer take-home activities for students. I use these with my own homeschooled children and my online teaching students. I’ve also included several extension activities to use the materials further.

This activity can be used all in one lesson or spread out over many days.

Why your students will love this:

Your students will love practicing their oral reading fluency with these sentences because it is fun to pull them out of a hat and the topics are high interest or funny! 

**Prep is quick and easy…**Print the pages, cut the sentences into strips, find a basket or bin, and let your student(s) pull a sentence to read.

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Keywords:

Reading fluency, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, copy work, reluctant readers, high-interest topics, reading out loud

This packet is a literature response to Those Shoes. It can be used as a literature response for a book club or as a whole class reading comprehension packet. There are prompts on when to answer each response page in the upper right corner in blue.

This book is at a Level L.

Reading Comprehension Strategies Addressed-

- Predicting

- Visualizing

- Short Answer Response

- Questioning

- Character Analysis

- Quotes

- Text Connections

- Opinion

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Transform your novel studies with "Dynamic Reading Comprehension Centers," a comprehensive set of resources designed to foster essential reading skills through engaging, static centers. This kit features four themed centers based on key comprehension areas: Vocabulary, Prediction, Explanation, and Sequencing/Summarizing. Each center is themed around a unique character, offering reusable, laminatable A3 question cards that can be applied to any chapter or text. Perfect for creating a revolving yet consistent learning environment in your classroom!

Center Features:

1. Lexi the Word Wizard (Vocabulary Center):

• What synonyms can you find for key terms in the chapter?
• Identify words that set the tone or mood of this section.
• Choose a word that significantly changes the story’s direction. Why is it pivotal?

1. Presto the Prediction Panda (Prediction Center):

• From the chapter's title, what do you predict will happen next?
• What are the possible outcomes of the main character’s decision?
• How do you think the setting will influence future events?

1. Eloise the Explainer (Explanation Center):

• Explain how the author’s choice of words enhances the story’s impact.
• Discuss the main themes and how they develop throughout the text.
• How does the structure of the chapter contribute to its overall effectiveness?

1. Sage the Storyteller Squirrel (Sequencing/Summarizing Center):

• Can you sequence the major events from this chapter?
• Summarize how the character’s attitude changes throughout the text.
• What was the climax of the chapter, and why was it pivotal?

Product Benefits:

• Adaptability: Each center's questions are designed to be universally applicable, making them perfect for any book or novel.
• Reusable Resources: Print on A3, laminate, and use these centers repeatedly throughout the school year.
• Engagement: Characters and themed questions spark interest and maintain engagement in reading activities.
• Skill Development: Supports critical thinking, vocabulary enhancement, prediction skills, textual understanding, and summarization abilities.

What’s Included:

• 4 Sets of Laminatable A3 Question Cards (10+ cards per set)
• Instructions for setting up and rotating the centers
• Tips for integrating these centers into your curriculum effectively

Ideal For:

• Permanent Classroom Centers
• Rotating Reading Stations
• Independent Learning Activities
• Group Collaborations

Upgrade your classroom's approach to novel studies with "Dynamic Reading Comprehension Centers," and watch as your students develop a deeper, more nuanced understanding of their readings!

What’s Included?

• 20 Bookmarks, each featuring a critical reading skill or strategy for grades 3 - 8:

  • Main Idea & Supporting Details
  • Summarizing
  • Making Inferences
  • Context Clues
  • Identifying Theme
  • and many more!

Why You'll Love This Resource

• Student-Friendly Format: Each bookmark simplifies complex skills into bite-sized, actionable steps.
• Versatile Use: Perfect for guided reading groups, independent practice, or homework aids.
• Aligned with Curriculum Standards: Helps reinforce essential reading skills aligned with Common Core and other standards.
• Durable and Reusable: Print, laminate, and reuse for years!

This product is made for:

• adapting instruction
• differentiating instruction
• on level learners
• struggling writers
• struggling readers
• ESL/ENL
• Deaf Education
• Homework
• Classwork
• Homeschooling
• Bell Work
• Virtual Instruction
• Remote Instruction

This book series is great for young children as they can relate with what Franklin and his friends experience as they are growing up and helping each other. The book, Franklin is Messy, discusses Franklin being responsible, taking care of his things, cleaning his bedroom, returning things when he borrows them, reusing items, being a good friend, etc. The comprehension questions in this product relate with the text as well as students own experiences. Images are located throughout packet to help students answer questions. As the book is being read aloud, as students are reading the book or after the book has been read, students can answer the comprehension questions in this packet.

Reading Comprehension Fiction: Lotto

Our worksheets cover a variety of genres and themes from popular children's literature, making reading fun and enjoyable for kids of all ages

- Improve reading comprehension

- Engage with popular children's literature

- Enhance critical thinking skills

These are fun, interactive reading comprehension worksheets. Students will receive the lucky lottery number if they answer all the questions correctly.

Students must correctly complete the five comprehension questions to get the daily PICK 5 lottery numbers. (They will only have a winning lottery ticket if they complete all the questions correctly.) This activity has an independent and guided component.

Set includes 5 Passages from

The Birthday Party by Oliver Optic

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

A Gallery of Children by A.A. Milne

The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baun

The Story of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

These Roll and Read editable worksheets are available in both PowerPoint and Google Slides. Simply, put your own words or sentences in the edit text boxes and use these games for reading centers, tutorials, small groups, homeschooling, homework, sub plans and more! Students will practice their sight words or fluency sentences by rolling a physical or digital dice using the provided qr code, and then reading the matching sight word or sentence.

✨Save over 30% with the dolch sight words and sight word fluency sentences mega bundle!

What's Included

• A Roll & Read board with editable text boxes for sight words
• A Roll & Read board with editable text boxes for sentences
• 36 words boxes on each board
• Google Slides & PowerPoint

Directions

Rolling the Die:

• Students roll a six-sided die to determine which sight word or sentence they will read.
• Students can also scan the QR code on the worksheet using a device with a QR code scanner to access a virtual dice roller.

Reading the Sight Word:

• Students match the number rolled with the corresponding sight word or sentenceon their worksheet.
• Students read the sight word or sentence out loud.
• Students should focus on pronouncing each word correctly and quickly.

Marking Progress:

• Once students read a sight word or sentence, they should highlight or color the box. They could also cover it with a counter or place marker etc.
• If students roll a number they have already completed, they should roll again until they land on a new sight word or sentence.
• Students continue rolling and reading until they have completed all the sight words on their worksheets.

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Get ready for school with these captivating sight word flashcards that facilitate children's reading of high frequency words. Each card enhances word recognition, fluency & decoding skills, making reading engaging and fun. You may want to display these on your word wall or sound wall. Ideal for guided reading, lessons and homework, this printable pack features the most common English words, displayed in an easy to read font against an exciting backdrop of yummy sweet treat designs. Get ready to print, download and enhance language skills in a fun way.

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Enhance your 4th graders' vocabulary practice with this interactive word search set, perfectly aligned to support HMH Into Reading 4th Grade curriculum. These fun and engaging word searches are designed to reinforce essential vocabulary from key concepts and weekly critical vocabulary terms. Perfect for ELA centers, early finishers, or homework, this resource makes vocabulary practice both effective and enjoyable. Just print and use!

What’s Included:

• 3 Interactive Word Searches: Target important vocabulary words from Module 8, focusing on the big ideas and weekly vocabulary terms.
• 3 Answer Keys: Save time with detailed, easy-to-use answer keys that offer immediate feedback for students.

Why You'll Love It:

• Ideal for 4th-grade ELA centers, early finishers, or homework assignments.
• Engages students in hands-on learning, helping improve word recognition and retention.
• Aligned with popular 4th-grade curriculum for easy integration.

Make vocabulary practice exciting and efficient with this essential classroom tool!

Disclaimer: This product is not endorsed by or affiliated with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) or any specific curriculum brand. It is an independent, teacher-created resource designed to support vocabulary instruction.

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