Language Arts Lesson - "Summarizing Unit"

by Bethany Baptiste
3rd-5th grade

Watching readers transition from decoding text to comprehending it in a meaningful way is magical! Teaching young readers strategies to bring text to life will make learning to read 

more fun and motivating. 

This Summarizing Unit uses engaging activities that guide readers to master the reading strategy of finding main ideas and then summarizing what they read. Readers will summarize both fiction and nonfiction with two different techniques included in this unit. Throughout the unit, students will independently practice the strategy and then apply it to their own reading.

This unit includes:

• 1 'Summarize Fiction' Poster and 1 'Summarize Nonfiction' Poster
• 1 'Main Idea and Supporting Details' Poster
• Find the Key Concept Activity
• Galapagos Islands Main Idea and Details Worksheet 
• 2 'Short and Sweet Summaries' Posters
• 8 Sort and Summarize Task Cards (4 Fiction, 4 Nonfiction)
• 6 Hunting for Summaries Passages (3 Consecutive Fiction Passages, 3 Consecutive Nonfiction Passages)
• 3 Post-It Practice Pages to Use While Summarizing during Independent Reading
• 2 Student Posters to Display Summarizing Practice
• 2 Double-Sided Summarize Bookmarks (Fiction and Nonfiction) with Reminders and Recording Notes Space

I hope you enjoy this unit and others from this series you can find in my store!

~ Bethany

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Language Arts Lesson - "Reading Comprehension Units Bundle"

by Bethany Baptiste
3rd-5th grade

Save time and money when buying this bundle!

This bundle includes six engaging 4-5 day units to guide your readers to master the comprehension strategies of visualizing, making connections, asking questions, inferring, predicting, and summarizing. 

The units are most appropriate for grades 3-5 and are aligned to Common Core State Standards. Students will enjoy bringing reading to life while practicing these strategies and then applying them to their own reading materials!

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~ Bethany :)

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Language Arts Lesson - "Visualizing Unit"

by Bethany Baptiste
3rd-5th grade

Watching the transition of decoding text to comprehending it in a meaningful way is magical! Teaching young readers strategies to bring text to life will make learning to read more fun and motivating. 

This Visualizing Unit uses engaging activities that guide readers to master the reading strategy of visualization. Throughout the unit, students will independently practice the strategy and then apply it to their own reading.

This unit includes:

• 1 Visualize Poster
• 4 Read Aloud Passages with Student Recording Sheet to Draw Visualizations
• I Have/Who Has Visualizing Game the Whole Class Will Enjoy Together
• 4 Reading Passages with Student Recording Sheet to Draw Visualizations
• Post-It Template to Practice Visualizing in Independent Reading
• Student Poster to Display Visualization Practice
• 2-Sided Visualize Bookmarks with Reminders and Recording Notes Space

I hope you enjoy this unit and any others from this series you can find in my store!

~ Bethany

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Language Arts Lesson - "The Fenway Foul-Up Literature Unit"

by Bethany Baptiste
3th-5th grade

It's baseball season!

The Fenway Foul-Up Literacy Unit is sure to be a hit with your students. 

Practice comprehension skills while reading through this baseball mystery.

I was lucky enough to work with the author, David A. Kelly, 

while creating this 2-3 week unit. Here's what he says about it:

"This is a really impressive set of exercises for the book The Fenway Foul-Up. They're unique, interesting, and inventive and provide great support for material in the book. Bethany has done a great job extending the baseball ideas and concepts from the book into the classroom, and provided plenty of ways to hook students into making real classroom connections. I was especially impressed by the professionalism and thoroughness of the materials." ~ David A. Kelly

This comprehensive unit provides you with: 

• a building background knowledge worksheet 
• vocabulary practice, and comprehension questions, and a comprehension focus skill worksheet for each of the 9 chapters
• reflective journal prompts for each of the 9 chapters
• figurative language practice worksheet
• 2 vocabulary practice worksheets

I hope this unit is a knock out of the park with your students! (Go Red Sox!!)

~ Bethany

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Social Studies Lesson - "American Revolution Unit"

by Bethany Baptiste

4th-5th grade

American Revolution Unit Contents

• 13 Close Reading Passages with Correlating Activities
• 5 Vocabulary Study Guide Pages 
• 4 Cumulative Assessments
• Aligned to Common Core State Standards

Guide students to discover America's road to independence with this engaging unit. Enjoy watching your students learn about the American Revolution in a meaningful way!

~ Bethany

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Language Arts Lesson - "The Fenway Foul-Up Literature Unit"

by Bethany Baptiste
3th-5th grade

It's baseball season!

The Fenway Foul-Up Literacy Unit is sure to be a hit with your students. 

Practice comprehension skills while reading through this baseball mystery.

I was lucky enough to work with the author, David A. Kelly, 

while creating this 2-3 week unit. Here's what he says about it:

"This is a really impressive set of exercises for the book The Fenway Foul-Up. They're unique, interesting, and inventive and provide great support for material in the book. Bethany has done a great job extending the baseball ideas and concepts from the book into the classroom, and provided plenty of ways to hook students into making real classroom connections. I was especially impressed by the professionalism and thoroughness of the materials." ~ David A. Kelly

This comprehensive unit provides you with: 

• a building background knowledge worksheet 
• vocabulary practice, and comprehension questions, and a comprehension focus skill worksheet for each of the 9 chapters
• reflective journal prompts for each of the 9 chapters
• figurative language practice worksheet
• 2 vocabulary practice worksheets

I hope this unit is a knock out of the park with your students!

~ Bethany

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Language Arts Lesson - "Summarizing Unit"

by Bethany Baptiste
3rd-5th grade

Watching readers transition from decoding text to comprehending it in a meaningful way is magical! Teaching young readers strategies to bring text to life will make learning to read 

more fun and motivating. 

This Summarizing Unit uses engaging activities that guide readers to master the reading strategy of finding main ideas and then summarizing what they read. Readers will summarize both fiction and nonfiction with two different techniques included in this unit. Throughout the unit, students will independently practice the strategy and then apply it to their own reading.

This unit includes:

• 1 'Summarize Fiction' Poster and 1 'Summarize Nonfiction' Poster
• 1 'Main Idea and Supporting Details' Poster
• Find the Key Concept Activity
• Galapagos Islands Main Idea and Details Worksheet 
• 2 'Short and Sweet Summaries' Posters
• 8 Sort and Summarize Task Cards (4 Fiction, 4 Nonfiction)
• 6 Hunting for Summaries Passages (3 Consecutive Fiction Passages, 3 Consecutive Nonfiction Passages)
• 3 Post-It Practice Pages to Use While Summarizing during Independent Reading
• 2 Student Posters to Display Summarizing Practice
• 2 Double-Sided Summarize Bookmarks (Fiction and Nonfiction) with Reminders and Recording Notes Space

I hope you enjoy this unit and others from this series you can find in my store!

~ Bethany

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Language Arts Lesson - "Inferring Unit"

by Bethany Baptiste
3rd-5th grade

Watching readers transition from decoding text to comprehending it in a meaningful way is magical! Teaching young readers strategies to bring text to life will make learning to read 

more fun and motivating. 

This Inferring Unit uses engaging activities that guide readers to master the reading strategy of making inferences when they read. Throughout the unit, students will independently practice the strategy and then apply it to their own reading.

This unit includes:

• 1 'Infer' Poster
• 5 Pictures with Teacher Notes to Practice Using Schema to Infer
• 4 Read Aloud Passages with Teacher Notes to Practice Using Text Evidence and Schema to Infer
• Reading Between the Lines Worksheet to Record Inferences
• 2 Reading Passages to Practice Using Schema and Text Evidence to Make Inferences
• Inference Search Game
• 1 Post-It Practice Page to Use While Making Inferences during Independent Reading
• 1 Student Poster to Display Inferring Practice
• 2-Sided Infer Bookmarks with Reminders and Recording Notes Space

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I hope you enjoy this unit and others from this series you can find in my store!

~ Bethany

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Language Arts Lesson - "Asking Questions Unit"

by Bethany Baptiste
3rd-5th grade

Watching readers transition from decoding text to comprehending it in a meaningful way is magical! Teaching young readers strategies to bring text to life will make learning to read 

more fun and motivating. 

This Asking Questions Unit uses engaging activities that guide readers to master the reading strategy of asking meaningful questions about what they read. Throughout the unit, students will independently practice the strategy and then apply it to their own reading.

This unit includes:

• 1 'Ask Questions' Poster
• 1 'Quality Questions' Poster or Handout
• 3 Part Illustrated Read Aloud with Prompts to Practice Asking Questions While Reading
• Practice Pondering Worksheet
• Questioning Game for Whole Class or Small Group Play
• 1 'When to Ask' Poster or Handout
• 1 'Stop-Ask-Think' Poster or Handout
• 4 Stop-Ask-Think Reading Passages to Practice Asking Questions
• Stop-Ask-Think Reminder Bookmarks
• 2 Post-It Practice Pages to Use While Asking Questions in Independent Reading
• 1 Student Poster to Display Asking Questions Practice
• 2-Sided Ask Questions Bookmarks with Reminders and Recording Notes Space

I hope you enjoy this unit and others from this series you can find in my store!

~ Bethany

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Language Arts Lesson - "Making Connections Unit"

by Bethany Baptiste
3rd-5th grade

Watching readers transition from decoding text to comprehending it in a meaningful way is magical! Teaching young readers strategies to bring text to life will make learning to read 

more fun and motivating. 

This Making Connections Unit uses engaging activities that guide readers to master the reading strategy of making connections to what they read. Throughout the unit, students will independently practice the strategy and then apply it to their own reading.

This unit includes:

• 4 'Make Connections' Posters (Overview, Text to Self, Text to Text, and Text to World)
• Connections Sort Practice Worksheet
• Make Meaningful Connections Poster
• 2 Reading Passages with Student Recording Sheet to Make Meaningful Connections
• Connection Memory Match Game
• 2 Pages of Post-It Templates to Practice Making Connections in Independent Reading
• 4 Student Posters to Display Making Connections Practice
• 2-Sided Make Connections Bookmarks with Reminders and Recording Notes Space

I hope you enjoy this unit and others from this series you can find in my store!

~ Bethany

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Language Arts Lesson - "Visualizing Unit"

by Bethany Baptiste
3rd-5th grade

Watching the transition of decoding text to comprehending it in a meaningful way is magical! Teaching young readers strategies to bring text to life will make learning to read more fun and motivating. 

This Visualizing Unit uses engaging activities that guide readers to master the reading strategy of visualization. Throughout the unit, students will independently practice the strategy and then apply it to their own reading.

This unit includes:

• 1 Visualize Poster
• 4 Read Aloud Passages with Student Recording Sheet to Draw Visualizations
• I Have/Who Has Visualizing Game the Whole Class Will Enjoy Together
• 4 Reading Passages with Student Recording Sheet to Draw Visualizations
• Post-It Template to Practice Visualizing in Independent Reading
• Student Poster to Display Visualization Practice
• 2-Sided Visualize Bookmarks with Reminders and Recording Notes Space

I hope you enjoy this unit and any others from this series you can find in my store!

~ Bethany

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FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - "Reading Comprehension Bookmarks"

by Bethany Baptiste
2nd-6th grade

Celebrate the joy of reading today for Dr. Seuss's Birthday with these FREE bookmarks!

Enjoy using 9 different bookmarks to practice comprehension strategies!

Here's a sample of 4 of the 9 bookmarks.

Bookmarks include these comprehension strategies and can be used 

while reading ANY book!

* Self Monitoring and Clarifying *

* Visualizing *

* Making Connections *

* Asking Questions *

* Inferring *

* Predicting *

* Summarizing *

* Evaluating *

* Synthesizing *

Copy each two sided bookmark with space on the back to write notes while reading. 

(optional back side)

These are great to use while conferencing with students or for reminders 

during independent reading time. 

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

~ Bethany

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Reading Comprehension Passages - Making Predictions

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Making predictions while reading is an important skill for comprehending text. Use this packet to practice making predictions and inferences with your students. 

Each page includes a short passage intended to focus on predicting "what will happen next" or "where will they go next." There are two questions on each sheet. The first question will vary to match the passage and the second question is constant: "Why do you think that?" There is also a picture to match each passage. There are 23 passages in all!