Daily Reading Practice (Grade 3 Spiral Review)

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Have you ever wanted quick, spiral review for reading comprehension?  There are so many resources like this for math to help students retain what they have learned.  My resource provides quick, daily review for reading comprehension.  It features:

• The passages are quick and can be completed as bell ringers in just a few minutes.
• There is a different passage for each day of the week.
• Each week is thematic so students learn about plants, animals, fables, and more in a thorough way with many example passages before they move on to a new weekly topic.
• Main idea, inference, summarizing, close reading, and more skills repeat across the days and weeks. This helps students remember what they have learned in reading.
• Weekly progress charts are included.
• Answer keys are included.
• Nonfiction, history, fiction, poetry, folktales, fables, realistic fiction, and more topics are covered.

This resource is great as a quick daily review, as a way to help students retain what they have learned, and as test prep.  

Reading Comprehension (Text Structure)

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Four passages are included to review text structure.  Use this during reading instruction or for test prep.  An answer key is also included.

Reading Comprehension (Main Idea)

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Finding the main idea is so much deeper than finding out what a text is mostly about.  It is also about determining how details enable an author to convey a central message.  Finding the main idea is also about determining the central idea of a passage even when it is not directly stated.

I recommend an order for teaching main idea so that students will learn about this topic in depth.

First:  Identify the main idea that is directly stated.
Second:  Identify the main idea that is not directly stated (in simple passages).
Third:  Identify text details that best support the main idea.
Fourth: Identify the main idea in passages that are obscure and focus on many details.
Fifth:  Compare author's craft as related to conveying main ideas. (For example: Explain what techniques one author uses with the techniques of another author).

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Reading Comprehension (Integrate Texts)

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When a student integrates information from two or more texts, he or she looks for central ideas, details, themes, or other aspects of the passages that bear similarities or differences.
It is best to use passages that are similar for this purpose.

This requires closing reading information and reading with a focus in mind.  All of this leads to developing an understanding about author's craft as well as overarching themes.

Such goals might seem lofty, but with enough practice, students can learn how to closely read text.

I often try to incorporate passages that vary in complexity.  This enables students to strengthen their vocabularies. Over time, I notice growth with my students.
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Updated Resources

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These fun stories are a great way to review phonics sounds.  Each page contains a reading passage, word fluency dots, and a question to measure comprehension.

35 Weeks of Daily Reading Comprehension (Grade 4)

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This document contains 35 weeks of quick, daily reading comprehension practice that can be completed in just a few minutes each day. Close reading, multiple choice, and short response formats are included.

Skills Covered:

• Inferences
• Character Analysis
• Point of View
• Cause and Effect
• Compare and Contrast
• Main Idea
• And More!

Nonfiction, poetry, realistic fiction, historical fiction, biographies, plays, and more genres are included to provide balanced review.  

This is great as morning practice, homework and as a quick, test review document.

35 weeks of daily practice are included.  It contains 175 original reading passages. Questions and and answer key are also included.

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Leveled Daily Reading Practice

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(Brand New) Quickly review nonfiction concepts in just a few minutes each day with these quick, leveled passages.  Each original passage lists the Flesch Kincade reading level and lexile level.  Questions cover inferences, cause and effect, details, and more skills.  

Topics include the water cycle, maps, landforms, and more topics.  A weekly progress chart is also included.

The document contains one month of passages (20 quick leveled passages) and answer keys.  This is a great way to monitor progress.
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Inference Playing Cards (Update)

Making inferences can be fun!  Lately, I have been on art overdrive and have been updating many of my old products.  My most recent update was to my Inference Playing Cards.  Yes, these are playing cards that review inferences.  

I was providing intervention to students that needed to improve in reading.  My goal was to create learning resources that reviewed concepts and made learning fun.  The playing card series was born.  

It is fun to watch students really get into the game and build their game strategies as they learn how to infer.  This has been one of my best sellers.  To access this resource, click here.

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More Weird and Gross

Do your students love high-interest passages?  These passages are fun to read and help students apply strategies as they read passages that they will enjoy.Click Here To Access It

Why Did You Make Weird And Gross Passages?

Kids love the "ick factor", and our world has plenty of it.  Strange microbes, weird bugs, and odd historical facts are great for helping students learn how science concepts apply to daily life.

Yes, this monkey is actually on my boat!

Okay, okay.  I have an admission to make.  I LOVE the weird and gross factor of nature too.  This love for nature inspires the passages that I create.  My ultimate goal is to make learning fun, and help students build an internal motivation to read.

What Does The Document Contain?

This document contains four illustrated passages, comprehension questions, written response prompts, and an answer key. Your students will enjoy making connections with what to read and the world around them. Simultaneously, this gives students the opportunity to apply reading strategies and build their comprehension skills.Click Here To Access It

Daily Reading Comprehension Practice

This quick, daily reading comprehension practice is a great way to keep reading skills sharp.  Students read fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and more genres in just a few minutes each day.  Close reading, inferences, main idea, and more are covered.  There are also weekly checklists to monitor student progress.  This is great as a morning bell ringer.Click Here To Access It

Free Inference Task Cards (Organized By Lexiles and Guided Reading Levels)

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Do you sometimes feel as though there is not enough time to get everything done?  Help is here!  Try out this sample version of my differentiated inference task cards for free. The full version has task cards for each guided reading/Lexile level.

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 Fiction and nonfiction passages are included.  Questions are written at different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy to help students at all reading levels practice critical reading skills and infer ideas.

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Features

• Save hours of planning time.  Since the passages and task cards at written at different levels, students at different reading levels can work on the same skill at their own individual reading levels.
• Use for progress monitoring.  The Lexile level/guided reading level is written on each task card.  Each level comes with a student recording form and an answer key.
• Use as a test prep resource.  The questions are written at different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.  Multiple-choice and short response questions are both included.
• Use as an RTI (Response to Intervention) resource.  The leveled nonfiction and fiction passages make it easier to review comprehension skills.

Daily Reading Comprehension Practice (Grade 3)

Just released--Daily Reading Comprehension Practice.  Review comprehension skills in just five minutes a day.  Click Here

This is a great way to keep reading skills sharp.  It is a great bell ringer activity too!

Free Sentence Starters--Helping Students Interpret What They Read

If you are looking for a way to help students interpret and explain what they read, this free resource will help.  I love to use sentence starters with students.  After a short time, students are able to write without any support.

Why is this important?  There is a greater push to encourage students to go beyond summarizing.  Being able to interpret what is read sets a strong foundation for later grade levels and helps students comprehend what they read.Click Here to Access It

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Grade 4 Daily Reading Comprehension (Organized By Lexile Levels)

(Brand New Resource) Having teaching materials that are organized by Lexile levels and/or guided reading levels has so many benefits.  It makes it so much easier to help students at their levels. This document contains 20 quick, and daily passages for easy and convenient comprehension practice. The Lexile level and reading level are listed next to each passage.The daily practice can be completed in just five minutes a day. Use it as morning practice when students first enter the classroom.  Or, use it as nightly homework.  Inferences, main idea, author's purpose and more skills are covered in this document.Click Here to Access It

Grade 4 Daily Reading Comprehension Practice

This resource provides quick and convenient reading comprehension practice in just five minutes a day.  A weekly checklist is included to make progress monitoring so much easier. Many of the comprehension categories repeat across the weeks to keep reading skills sharp. Click Here To Access It

This is great for test prep and review.  Students can complete the daily practice when they first enter the classroom as attendance is taken.  Or, they can use it as daily homework.