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  • This post gives you ideas and activities for making close reading more engaging for your students! From annotating to answering text dependent questions, students will actually enjoy close reading!
  • Check out this post for strategies to help you hold students more accountable during center time to make them work in your classroom. Recording sheets included to use with task cards or U-Know games! #centertime #upperelementary #upperelementarycenters via @funin5thgrade
  • "I Need My Monster" is a great story to use around Halloween or anytime really. Great for descriptive writing! Ideal for use in grades 3-6.
  • Students love playing U-Know games for fun REVIEW of prefixes and suffixes or test prep. It's a perfect addition to any small group or station, and great for early finishers. Prefix & Suffix U-Know is a fun learning game played similar to UNO except if you get an answer wrong, you have to draw two! Students will beg to practice affixes in this way!
  • 6 Ways to Make Close Reading More Engaging | Fun in 5th Grade
  • OVER 50 GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS in a fun FOOD THEME!!! My students LOVE filling these out and then coloring them when they are done! $
  • Educate and review with students using this mini bundle of three sets of close reading comprehension passages that include mystery pictures! Perfect for whole group, small group, test prep, review, and more! Just print and GO! There are nine DIFFERENT passages each DIFFERENTIATED at three DIFFERENT reading levels. There are six nonfiction texts and three fiction text. Each text comes with 10 text dependent comprehension questions, a writing prompt, graphic organizers, and a mystery grid picture.
  • Use these Thanksgiving themed close reading comprehension passages to practice close reading with your students in a fun and engaging way. Each passage includes 3 levels of text, comprehension questions, a writing prompt, and a mystery grid. Plus get bonus graphic organizers you can use with many passages! Passages include: American vs. Canadian Thanksgiving (Nonfiction), History of Thanksgiving (Nonfiction), & Journal of a Pilgrim (Fiction).
  • Students love playing U-Know games for fun REVIEW of figurative language or for test prep. It's a perfect activity for any small group or station, and great for early finishers. Figurative Language U-Know is a fun learning game played similar to UNO except if you get an answer wrong, you have to draw two! Students will beg to practice figurative language in this way! Covers similes, metaphors, hyperbole, idioms, personification, onomatopoeia, and alliteration!

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