nonfiction activities

These passages are great for kinders and first graders depending on how you use them! This freebie includes sample pages from 2 of my Reading Comprehension packets. Reading Comprehension - Word Families Each page is designed to focus on one particular word family that is displayed on the page. Eac...

It seems that I've gotten into the habit of posting about once a month. It's definitely not my intention, but as soon as I blink the month has gone and I have not posted more than once! *Ugh* This needs to change. I have so much going on in my classroom that I want to share. I just need to find the time! For today, I'm linking up with some amazing blogs to share some freebies. The first blog I'm linking up with is Freebielicious. Have you checked out this blog? If you are a K-2 teacher and…

No prep close reading and comprehension for grades 1-3! Each passage presented at 3 reading levels. Science and Social Studies topics. Written by a published children's author. #closereading #noprep #primarygrades

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Have some fun with informational texts! Your students will love this crafty nonfiction choice board. Free!

This free emergent reader is a great addition to a unit on Arctic animals. Ideal for beginning readers, the text uses repeating sentences with picture clues. This makes it a great activity for increasing children's confidence with reading.•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••...

We are in the middle of a Non-Fiction unit in both Reader's and Writer's Workshop right now. It is definitely one of my favorite units. The kids get SO excited when they learn a new fact and they just have to tell me right away. I love to see them get so excited about learning (especially this late in the year)! To kick off our unit, we created Non-Fiction Text Features Book. Each student created one for reference: Then, they used magazines and old Scholastic News to cut out examples of each…

Trying to fit it all in...seems impossible most days. That's one reason why integrating across subjects is vital to fitting it all in! We took the theme of pumpkins this week and learned about them all across the board! Here's a little bit about our pumpkin-y kind of week! --------------------------------------------------- GRAMMAR ACTIVITY We looked through magazines and sorted nouns into the 3 categories of person, place, and thing. We then glued them on to our pumpkins. Our nouns pumpkins…

9 Free online non fiction reading books and resources for kids from preschool to high school. In today's world, it is important for kids to be a self-learner, reading non-fiction is a crucial building block of skills for self-learners. It is important for kids to read enough non fiction.

Wow, these last few weeks have been kicking my butt! No matter what I do, there's always ten more things on the list to do next.... Between Halloween, being sick (boo!), and report cards due next week... I am thanking my lucky stars it is a long weekend for us! No school today because of Remembrance Day and Monday is an Admin Day in our division, so we can work on report cards. Yay! So, what have we been up to these past few busy weeks? Let's see... The week before Halloween we started with…

In January, we love, Love, LOVE to teach about penguins. They aren't icky or gross like the spiders we study, creepy or spooky like the bats...so it is much more enjoyable to teach! Who doesn't love to learn about cute, cuddly penguins and watch them waddle! I've been working on {my} perfect penguin packet that I know my firsties will just swoon over! This full unit is jam packed with first grade skill work for phonics, reading, poetry, writing, grammar, social studies, and some fun…

23 original first grade leveled reading passages and close reading activities perfectly aligned to Common Core Literature AND Informational reading standards! This pack could be used in a variety of ways - class-wide reading, homework, assessment, guided reading groups, or intervention.

We estimated and counted our pumpkins! The actual amount of pumpkins was 84! I had 4 winners from my blog comments and 1 winner from my facebook page comments! Boy was that FUN! Each winner received my Stellaluna Book Study, October Math Centers, and Fall Literacy Unit. Thanks for playing along with our class! […]

This fall, we've had some fun with the higher reading group doing some non-fiction animal activities. These have been in a pile to share, so we apologize. :) We don't have any pictures, but we will do our best to share. We started with learning about sharks while we were learning the 'ar' sound. Sharks seem to be one of those things that really just grab the kiddos attention. They couldn't get enough of reading about sharks, looking at pictures of real sharks, and even watching a fun video…

As part of our study on the presidents, we had some fun learning about all of the different pets the presidents have had over the years. ...

Have you ever tried to do a guided reading lesson with kindergartners using little non-fiction “science” easy readers? Teaching kids to read informational texts is “hot” right now in the educational world, and teachers are often pressured to use it in … Continue reading →