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Guided Reading Activities with Pizzazz ActivityGuided Reading Activities with Pizzazz Activity
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Guided Reading Activities with Pizzazz

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Get the most out of your guided reading lessons with this collection of literacy materials. Offering a system for using color-coded tags to mark pages while reading books, as well as an assortment of comprehension and grammar worksheets, this resource would make a great addition to the reading program of any early elementary teacher.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

guided reading, reading comprehension, syllables, making predictions, contractions, character analysis, sequence of events, literary elements, setting, plot, characters, rhyming words, punctuation, descriptive writing, independent reading, Journaling, responding to reading

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Create copies of the story journal for young readers to complete during literature units
  • Implement the smart reader cards during small group guided reading lessons
  • Use the worksheets as learning centers during class readings of different children's literature

Pros

  • Resource includes an explanation for how teachers can use these materials in the classroom
  • Worksheets offer clear directions and sentence frames that support young readers with improving their reading comprehension
  • Includes resources for that support reading of both fiction and non-fiction texts

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.1.1 RL.1.2 RL.1.3 RL.2.1 RL.2.2 RL.2.3 RL.3.1 RL.3.2 RL.3.3 RL.4.1 RL.4.2 RL.4.3 RI.1.1 RI.1.2 RI.2.1 RI.2.2 RI.3.1 RI.3.2 RI.4.1 RI.4.2 RF.1.3.a RF.1.3.d RF.1.4.a RF.2.4.a RF.3.4.a RF.4.4.a L.1.1.a L.1.1.b L.1.1.c L.1.1.j L.1.2.a L.1.2.b L.1.2.c L.2.1.a L.2.1.f L.2.2.c L.3.1.a L.3.1.b L.3.1.i L.3.2.c L.4.1.a L.4.1.f L.4.2.a L.4.2.b L.4.2.c

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