Simple yet engaging ways to make your upper elementary lessons meaningful and fun!
📚 Reading practice, minus the extra work
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Not everything needs to be invented from scratch, Reader. So if you need to come up with a way for students to respond to reading that doesn't interfere with your plans to binge The Pitt this week (because how is it the season finale already), may I humbly suggest this done-for-you option:
They work with independent reading, centers, homework, small groups, and pair beautifully with whatever reading curriculum you are already using. So instead of spending your evening coming up with fresh response questions, you can just find the reading skills you want students to practice, hit print, then hit the couch for a night and worry about Dr. Robby instead of your reading block. In this pack you'll find:
Students get the practice they need. You get the responses you've been trying to squeeze out of them since September. See the reading response sheets here 👉👉👉: Reading Response Activity Sheets Talk soon, P.S. When my school had a reading log "requirement" for homework, I used these sheets instead...and never looked back.
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Simple yet engaging ways to make your upper elementary lessons meaningful and fun!
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