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Sarah, Plain and Tall - Intro to Literature Circle jobs

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students read a book with each student having a specific job for the class.  In this literature instructional activity, students read Sarah, Plain and Tall over 10 days, dividing up responsibilities for each student to make sure everyone...
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Literature Circle Packet

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Looking to set up literature circles in your class? Use these materials to support pupils when they meet in groups. Pupils take on various roles over the course of reading and meet with their groups to share the work they have done on...
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Literature Circles: Getting Started

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Make reading more enjoyable and interactive with literature circles! Here you'll find detailed lessons to begin the literature circle process. Ten lessons introduce each role learners take on. Literature circle roles include...
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Introducing Literature Circle Roles to Students

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Learners read a narrative selection and select a literature circle role. In this reading comprehension lesson, students work in groups to identify vocabulary, make text connections, or other reading comprehension strategies. Learners...
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Literature Circles Planner

For Students 3rd - 6th
Here is a literature circle instructional activity for learners to plan an effective group meeting. Instructions are given to answer 10 questions. This form may be used for every book the group reads.
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Literature Circles: Art Director

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this literature circle activity worksheet, students draw a picture that include details of the events from their assigned piece of reading. Students also explain why included certain details in their drawing.
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Illustrator-literature Circles

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this literature circle worksheet, students are instructed to draw or sketch something related to a book they have read. There are directions on how to use this in a book club setting.
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Lesson Planet Article
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Celebrating Halloween through Language and Literature

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Use the theme of Halloween to spice up campfire stories, journal writing, and presentations in your classroom.
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Because of Winn-Dixie Scrapbook

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Here is a fun resource that your kids will love. While reading the book Because of Winn-Dixie, they analyze the story's main characters by creating an online scrapbook. The purpose is to have them identify character traits and use...
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Gettin' Through Thursday

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Have your class explore active reading strategies! In this guided reading lesson, learners make personal connections to characters having a bad day as a prior knowledge activation discussion. After reading Gettin' Through Thursday, class...
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Literature-based Skill Building: Holes by Louis Sachar: Chapter 12

For Students 4th - 6th
In this literature response worksheet, students illustrate a scene and write about two quotations in Chapter 12 of Holes by Louis Sachar.
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Literary Luminary-literature Circles

For Teachers 4th - 5th
In this literature circle worksheet, students choose 5 paragraphs from a book and the reasons for choosing them. This worksheet is intended to be used before a book club type meeting. Students choose their own books to report on, and...
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A Dreamer's Cloak

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners listen to the teacher read "A Dreamer's Cloak." They examine the difference between squares and circles and create their own cloak by using a paper bag and different shapes.
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Internet Fact Hunt at the "Fact Monster" Web Site- Hunt #33

For Students 4th - 6th
In this Internet fact hunt worksheet, students access the "Fact Monster" web site to locate the answers to 5 multiple choice questions. They answer questions about US history, geography, literature, and science.
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Paper Chain Connections

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Make real connections in literature and in life. While reading, class members fill out links for a chain, circling the connection type, noting the page number, and commenting on each one. When they've completed all the links, they cut...
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Teacher's Corner

Dr. Seuss Book Report - Character

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
Bring the imaginative spark in every Dr. Seuss book to your reading lesson with a book report worksheet. After they read the story, learners write a short summary of the tale and include an illustration of their favorite character.
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Wonder in the Classroom

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
Would you rather be right, or would you rather be kind? A novel unit based on R.J. Palacio's Wonder focuses on the need to be kind to others and to accept their differences. As learners read the book, they discuss the themes of family...
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Dr. Seuss Word Search

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this Dr. Seuss worksheet, students find and circle/highlight the underlined words in nine Dr. Seuss book titles in a word search puzzle.
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Maniac Magee: Fishbowl Discussion

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Split the class into two groups for a fishbowl discussion using of Jerry Spinelli's Maniac Magee. The first group initiates the conversation by reviewing the important points of Chapter thirteen while group two members are listening,...
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Selection Director

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this literature circle worksheet, students read a selected text and pick the most interesting to read to their group at the group reading.
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Mini-Unit: Natural Resources

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore how their choices affect others.  In this character development and ecology activity, students debate choice-making issues.  Students listen to The Lorax by Dr. Seuss and identify choices the characters made about tree...
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More Spring Poems: The Bee And The Flower

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this literature worksheet, students read and discuss the poem "The Bee And The Flower," color the picture, underline or circle the rhyming words and then print the rhyming words on pages two through four on the lines provided.
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Earth Day and "The Lorax" Lesson Plans

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Earth Day can be a way for students to explore their relationship to the world around them and read great literature like "The Lorax."
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The Tale of Tom Kitten

For Students 1st - 4th
In these reading comprehension worksheets, students recall story details, vocabulary usage, and work math problems related to the literature. The students will complete five multiple choice recall questions, four multiple choice...

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