This 2 page activity allows students to explore main idea, theme and beginning, middle and end of a fiction story.
This is a three page comprehension template addressing the common core reading standards for kindergarten informational text; Key ideas and Details. The emphasis is on understanding topic, main ideas and key details. Common Core: ELA: RI.K.1-3
Type your own text into each section of this template. Perfect for identifying main ideas, characterization, compare and contrasting and much more.
This activity allows students to explore and descibe the beginning, middle and end of a fiction story.
These templates allow students to identify the four basic sequencing steps in a story of their choice. Includes portrait and landscape pages.
This is a three page comprehension template addressing the common core reading standards for second grade informational text; Key ideas and Details. The emphasis is on key details and questioning. Students are to ask who, what, where, when why and how questions. Students are also asked to link important steps, events or ideas from the text and to compare/contrast them. Common Core: ELA: RI.2.1-3
This three page comprehension template addressing the common core reading standards for third grade information text; key ideas and details. The emphasis is on key details, connections and questioning. Common Core: ELA: RI.3.1-3
This is a four page comprehension template addressing the common core reading standards for fifth grade informational text; key ideas and details. The emphasis is on summarizing, supporting main ideas and key details with explicit quotes, relationships between people, events and ideas, and inferences. Common Core: ELA: RI.5.1-3
Students will use comprehension strategies to recall details from a fictional text. Common Core: ELA: RL.1.1-3, 2.1-3, 3.1-3
This 12 page packet includes text templates for students to complete during the first reading of informational text. This packet is aligned with the Close Reading Strategy and the CCSS for Reading of Informational Text for K-2. This packet also includes a page of teacher guidelines for reading strategy.
This choice board activity aligns with Informational Key Ideas and Details of the Common Core for 4th grade. Students choose 3 activities on a tic-tac-toe board to complete this report. Templates included for various activities.