These resources help students understand what they read: main idea, text evidence, text features, inferences, retelling and fluency.
You'll find fall nonfiction passages, reading mats, inference task cards, a read-aloud story with a retell craft, and a reading escape room for review days. Answer keys are included so checking stays quick.
17 resources in this category
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Created byActivity Express12 high-interest weird job reading passages for grades 6–12, with two comprehension levels, a career interest quiz, job ad and application activities.
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Created byActivity ExpressPlant and animal cell reading passages for grades 4–8 in two levels, with labeling diagrams, a Venn diagram, Cell City organizer and a 5-lesson plan.
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Created byActivity ExpressAn original rhyming scarecrow read aloud for PreK–1st with retell crafts, headbands, comprehension, phonics, math, writing and a 5-day plan.
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Created byActivity ExpressSix original fiction stories for teaching SWBST summarizing in grades 2–4, each in two reading levels, with organizers, bookmarks and a 2-week plan.
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Created byActivity Express15 fall fiction and nonfiction close reading passages for 3rd and 4th grade with two question levels, text evidence, inference and fluency checks.
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Created byActivity ExpressA K–3 Halloween read aloud with the story included: 8 leveled reading responses, 2 flip book crafts, 4 writing prompts, word work and shadow science.
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Created byActivity ExpressA 6-week RACES constructed response unit for grades 3–5: 30 original passages, mini-lessons, organizers, rubrics and model answers for every lesson.
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Created byActivity ExpressA no-tech escape room for grades 6–8: an original dystopian story and four locks on comprehension, plot, characterization and theme.
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Created byActivity ExpressA theme park reading escape room for grades 3–6: six ride challenges on informational text, fact and opinion, data tables, timelines and context clues.
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Created byActivity Express20 decodable passages from short a to silent e in 10 phonics units, with heart words, Blend & Build pages, fluency tracking and comprehension questions.
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Created byActivity ExpressOriginal fall read-aloud, Nutmeg's Leaf Bed, with a lift-the-leaf hedgehog retell craft in 12 versions, vocabulary, writing and a 5-day plan for PreK–2.
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Created byActivity Express20 fall and Halloween reading mats for 1st grade with read-it-three-times fluency, comprehension questions, word hunts and a 4-week reading plan.
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Created byActivity Express16 fall nonfiction passages for 1st and 2nd grade that teach students to find, mark and explain text evidence, with a hands-on Do It! activity for each.
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Created byActivity Express12 fall nonfiction passages laid out like magazine articles for grades 2–4, with 18 text features, feature hunts, questions and a final project.
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Created byActivity Express32 making inferences task cards for grades 4–6 with an anchor chart, It Says / I Say / And So organizer, Prove It sheets, riddles and a 5-day plan.
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Created byActivity ExpressFall nonfiction main idea passages for grades 2–4: 10 START passages, 8 reading units, anchor charts, graphic organizers and a 10-week plan.
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Created byActivity ExpressFive original Halloween read-aloud stories for 1st and 2nd grade with comprehension, vocabulary and writing activities and a 5-week plan. No books needed.
A guide to teaching career exploration in grades 6–12 through high-interest nonfiction: interest inventories, skills, job ads, applications and projects.
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A practical guide to teaching cell structure, organelles and plant vs. animal cells in grades 4–8, with leveled reading, labeling and a 5-lesson plan.
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How to build a full fall week around one scarecrow read aloud in PreK–1st: problem and solution, retelling, rhyming, counting, writing and kindness.
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A step-by-step guide to teaching the SWBST summarizing strategy in grades 2–4, with mistakes to watch for, differentiation and a 2-week plan.
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How to build a weekly close reading routine in 3rd and 4th grade with three reads, text evidence, It Says / I Say inference and fluency checks.
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Plan a week of K–3 comprehension around one Halloween story: predictions, story elements, sequencing, character change, writing and shadow science.
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