Jodene Smith

Babies need someone to love them, even baby birds. Early readers will analyze and become familiar with a baby bird's struggle to find his mother in this all-time favorite book by completing fun, challenging activities and lessons. This instructional guide for literature will further familiarize young readers with this well-known story and also add rigor to their explorations of rich, complex literature. Engaging cross-curricular activities are guaranteed to encourage early learners to analyze story elements in multiple ways, practice close reading and text-based vocabulary, determine meaning through text-dependent questions, and more.

An Instructional Guide for Literature: Are You My Mother?

Mary Rosenberg

Support students' phonetic development as they practice key first grade phonics skills. Focus on phonics with fun and engaging activity pages that are research-based and support the Common Core State Standards.

First Grade Foundational Phonics Skills: Digraph Th

This week of practice pages build fifth graders' mathematical fluency. Each problem is tied to a specific mathematical concept. Daily practice through these quick activities will help your young mathematicians. Great formative assessment tool!

Daily Math Practice for Fifth Grade (Week 2)

Support fifth grade students with 180 daily practice activities to build their mathematical fluency and demonstrate their understanding. Each problem is tied to a specific mathematical concept to help students gain regular practice of key grade-level skills. This book features quick, diagnostic-based activities that correlate to College and Career Readiness and other state standards, and includes data-driven assessment tips. Digital resources include assessment analysis tools and PDFs of the activity sheets. With this 5th grade math workbook, students will improve their math skills in no time!

Practice, Assess, Diagnose

180 Days of Math for Fifth Grade

Support students' phonetic development as they practice key pre-kindergarten phonics skills. Focus on phonics with fun and engaging activity pages that are research-based and support the Common Core State Standards.

Pre-Kindergarten Foundational Phonics Skills: Primary Sound f

Support students' phonetic development as they practice key kindergarten phonics skills. Focus on phonics with fun and engaging activity pages that are research-based and support the Common Core State Standards.

Kindergarten Foundational Phonics Skills: Primary Sound f

These activities for The Mitten practice key language convention skills. The activities integrate literature with learning about grammar, word choice, and sentence structure. Learning can be fun when it's connected to literature.

The Mitten Language Learning Activities

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

The Mitten Studying the Story Elements

Students analyze The Mitten 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.

The Mitten Close Reading and Text-Dependent Questions

These cross-curricular activities for The Mitten incorporate key skills from the Common Core. The activities integrate literature with social studies, science, mathematics, and more. Included activity pages engage and challenge students.

The Mitten Making Cross-Curricular Connections

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

The Mitten Leveled Comprehension Questions

Cozy up to this award-winning classic and introduce young readers to this enjoyable, charismatic story. This instructional guide for literature was created to support this story and is filled with appealing and challenging cross-curricular lessons and activities that work in conjunction with the text to teach students how to analyze and comprehend rich, complex literature. Everything you need is packed into this guide and is the perfect tool 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. Teachers are also encouraged to work with multiple versions of this story and compare and contrast them with students. A special section was added specifically for this task! This guide is the perfect way to help early readers analyze this beautifully illustrated story while adding rigor to their explorations of rich, complex literature.

An Instructional Guide for Literature: The Mitten

These vocabulary activities for The Mitten incorporate key skills from the Common Core. The activities integrate vocabulary with a study of the text. Includes text-dependent questions, definitions, and text-based sentences.

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