Debra J. Housel

Explore the history of clothes including inventors and their inventions of common clothing items such as jeans, raincoats, even zippers! Find how making clothes has changed over time with interesting facts of an often-overlooked industry. The reader provides a language arts connection as students learn vocabulary related to all aspects of the clothing industry.

Invenciones en la industria de la ropa / Inventions in the Clothing Industry

Students need purposeful practice on previewing text to improve reading comprehension. These sixth grade texts capture student interest with focused, standards-based activities that provide targeted practice opportunities.

Read & Succeed Comprehension Level 6: Context Clues Passages and Questions

"Includes 150 leveled passages with a variety of interesting topics ; comprehensive questions that target reading skills & strategies ; and standards & benchmarks."--Cover [p. 1]

Daily Warm-Ups: Nonfiction Reading Grd 4

Melissa Hart

Grade 5

Main Idea

Know kids who just love one specific kind of activity? Give them just what they want, and make them happy! Answer keys are provided.

Start to Finish: Amazing Mazes Grd 1-2

All students can learn about ancient Mesopotamia through text written at four reading levels. Symbols on the pages represent reading-level ranges to help differentiate instruction. Provided comprehension questions complement the text.

Leveled Texts: Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent

The grasshopper makes music all summer long while the ants find and store food. The grasshopper laughs at them and tells them to play instead. The ants warn the grasshopper that winter is coming. They keep on working. When winter does come, the ants are warm and well fed. The grasshopper is cold and hungry. What will become of the grasshopper? 24pp.

The Grasshopper and the Ants

Turn your classroom into a performance of the story of Arthur and the Pendragon Sword by assigning students a role in this script! Written at different reading levels, teachers can implement differentiation and English language learner strategies so that all students can participate. Students will improve their fluency while also practicing skills like reading aloud, interacting cooperatively, and using expressive voices and gestures. This leveled script includes an accompanying poem and song for additional fluency practice.

Arthur and the Pendragon Sword

Students need purposeful practice on noticing typeface and captions to improve reading comprehension. These fourth grade texts capture student interest with focused, standards-based activities that provide targeted practice opportunities.

Read & Succeed Comprehension Level 4: Typeface & Captions Passages and Questions

Students need purposeful practice on previewing text to improve reading comprehension. These second grade texts capture student interest with focused, standards-based activities that provide targeted practice opportunities.

Read & Succeed Comprehension Level 2: Typeface & Captions Passages and Questions

Students respond to Flora and Ulysses through writing. Various writing prompts, which require students to make connections, are provided. Narrative, opinion/argument, and informative/explanatory prompts are included.

Flora & Ulysses--The Illuminated Adventure Reader Response Writing Prompts

These leveled discussion questions about Flora and Ulysses require students to read closely, make connections, and share their analyses. Included are leveled comprehension questions and suggested answers.

Flora & Ulysses--The Illuminated Adventure Leveled Comprehension Questions

Students analyze Flora and Ulysses using key skills from the Common Core. Close reading of the text is required to answer text-dependent questions. Included are student pages with the text-dependent questions as well as suggested answers.

Flora & Ulysses--Close Reading and Text-Dependent Questions

These assessment questions for Flora and Ulysses are modeled after current testing models requiring students to revisit the text for answers. Students have to support their opinions and inferences with examples from the text.

Flora & Ulysses--The Illuminated Adventure Comprehension Assessment

Join Flora and Ulysses in this humorous, Newbery Medal-winning story about a young girl and her pet squirrel. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides fun, challenging activities and lessons to teach students how to analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and more. This is the perfect way to add rigor to your students' explorations of rich, complex literature.

An Instructional Guide for Literature

Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures: An Instructional Guide for Literature

A history of currency explores its invention, how paying for objects has changed over time, and different types of coins and paper money from around the world.

Buy It! History of Money

All students can learn about the ancient Incas through text written at four reading levels. Symbols on the pages represent reading-level ranges to help differentiate instruction. Provided comprehension questions complement the text.

Leveled Texts: Incredible Incas

Students will enjoy studying the story elements of Charlotte's Web through these engaging activities, students create products to share their understanding of the characters, plots, and settings of the book.

Charlotte's Web Studying the Story Elements

Young readers will be intrigued and eager to analyze this timeless classic by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons provided in this instructional guide for literature. This guide is the perfect tool to aid students in analyzing and comprehending this charming story. Appealing and challenging cross-curricular lessons and activities incorporate research-based literacy skills to help students become thorough readers. These lessons and activities work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and much more.

An Instructional Guide for Literature: Charlotte's Web

Students respond to Charlotte's Web through writing. Various writing prompts, which require students to make connections, are provided. Narrative, opinion, and informative/explanatory prompts are included.

Debra J. Housel

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