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Generic Novel Study Activities for Any Book: Reading Response Graphic Organizers

Created by
iTeach & iWrite

Transform any novel study, book reading club, or literature circle into an engaging, high-level learning experience with zero prep! Take your reading comprehension instruction to the next level with these 42 Printable Generic Novel Study Reading Response Graphic Organizers.

3rd - 6th English Language Arts, Close Reading, Literature

Also included in: Book Activities Bundle: 42 Reading Response Graphic Organizers & 24 Bookmarks

Google Drive

$5.75

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Book Activities Bundle: 42 Reading Response Graphic Organizers & 24 Bookmarks

Created by
iTeach & iWrite

Transform reading time with this Book Activities Bundle, featuring 42 reading response graphic organizers for ANY novel study and 24 interactive reading comprehension bookmarks to practice standards-based reading skills and strategies.

3rd - 6th English Language Arts, Close Reading, Reading Strategies

Bundle (2 products)

$12.75

$9.60

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Close Reading Comprehension Reading Skill Bookmarks, Posters and Google Slides

Created by
iTeach & iWrite

Use these 24 standards-based Interactive Reading Comprehension Skills & Strategies Bookmarks, correlating posters, and Google Slides to differentiate for student reading needs and practice close reading for reading comprehension.

3rd - 6th Close Reading, ELA Test Prep, Reading Strategies

Also included in: Book Activities Bundle: 42 Reading Response Graphic Organizers & 24 Bookmarks

Google Drive

$7.00

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Book Stack Tracker Coloring Bookmarks Reading Plan Log Book Club List Gift

Created by
Eden Digital Arts

Book stack reading log coloring bookmarks in 3 different sizes, for kids and adults to track books they read, or for Bible reading plan, to record books of the Bible read. Create a book reading plan by listing the books, then coloring each read book. For best results print them on thick cardstock pa

Not Grade Specific Close Reading, Reading Strategies

$2.85

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Reading Comprehension, Grammar, and Writing Skills Interactive Bookmarks

Created by
iTeach & iWrite

Differentiate for your students with this engaging bundle of printable, interactive reading comprehension, grammar, and writing skills bookmarks. You'll get printable interactive bookmarks, printable posters, and digital Google Slides.

4th - 7th Close Reading, Grammar, Writing

Bundle (3 products)

$19.00

$15.20

Cute Cats and Books Pun Bookmarks to Color Calm Craft DIY Teacher Student Gift

Created by
Eden Digital Arts

Relaxing DIY gift craft for teachers and students, set of 8 coloring bookmarks featuring cute reading cats and books with puns. These bookmarks would work great as a fun addition to lesson plans, sub plans, early finisher activities, for a relaxing time, and more.Ideas on using bookmarks:bookmarks

Not Grade Specific Close Reading, Social Emotional Learning, For All Subjects

$3.25

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Phonics Skill Assessment 2nd 3rd Grade Spelling Sound Blends Word Review Packet

Created by
The Wordsmith Cat

This phonics resource is perfect for 2nd and 3rd grade students to review their phonics reading skills. Teachers will love this resource (186 ready-to-print worksheets!) for their phonics folder. The digraph, trigraph, and vowel team worksheet activities are suitable for phonics intervention, assess

2nd - 4th Close Reading, Reading Strategies, Science of Reading

Bundle (4 products)

$15.00

$10.50

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Knights In Armor Coloring Bookmarks Cards Cute Dragon Castle, Calm Craft Rewards

Created by
Eden Digital Arts

Coloring knights in armor keepsake bookmarks with cute dragons, castles, and swords, could be used as brain breaks, as rewards for students, or as a fun coloring activity at a party, could be added to letters or mailed with cards, or attached to gift baskets and goodie bags.For best results print th

Preschool - 5th Close Reading, Reading, Reading Strategies

$2.35

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Cute Axolotl Pun Bookmarks to Color Kindness Fun Party DIY Coloring Gift Craft

Created by
Eden Digital Arts

Axolotl coloring bookmarks with positive kindness puns. These bookmarks will work great as rewards and gifts for students, as early finisher activities, gifts students can give each other, for brain breaks, and gifts for parents and teachers.These bookmarks could be used as a fun coloring activity a

Not Grade Specific Close Reading, Classroom Community, For All Subjects

Also included in: Friendship Kindness Coloring Bookmarks Bundle Kind Cards Crafts Reward Gifts

$2.35

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Mindful Bookmarks to Color Nature Landscapes Calm Keepsake Craft Students Gift

Created by
Eden Digital Arts

Relaxing DIY gift craft for teachers and students, for brain breaks/fast finishers, set of 12 coloring bookmarks featuring nature with mountains, trees, and a river.These bookmarks would work great as a fun addition to lesson plans, sub plans, early finisher activities, for a relaxing time, DIY gift

Not Grade Specific Close Reading, Classroom Community, For All Subjects

$3.70

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Fantasy Story Reading Fun Independent Activity Grade 4 Short Reading Passage 5th

Created by
The Wordsmith Cat

This Fantasy-themed short story reading comprehension is suitable for 4th and 5th-grade students. The 8-page fictional short story has reading comprehension questions. Students will enjoy the short story reading passage and feel confident with the consistent structure to answer the comprehension que

4th - 6th Close Reading, Reading, Short Stories

Also included in: Short Stories Imaginative Narrative Writing Unit Activities 4th 5th 6th Grade

$3.78

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Closed Syllables Multisyllabic Short Vowel Words Fluency Passage 2nd 3rd Grade

Created by
The Wordsmith Cat

These decodable reading passages focus on words with closed syllables. Students will read closed syllables words with short vowels in context. The 5 short vowel reading passages come in a fluency tracking format and with comprehension questions. There is a supporting closed syllables anchor chart to

1st - 3rd Close Reading, Reading Strategies, Science of Reading

$3.20

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The Haunting of Hill House Novel Unit | Shirley Jackson | Gothic Literature

Created by
Plotting Something

Teach Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House with a complete novel unit built for 10th Grade English. Students get the support they need to understand what is happening before they are asked to decide what it means.The unit includes lesson slides, an 18-page student packet, an exact filled key

9th - 12th Close Reading, Literature, Novel Studies

$19.99

A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf | AP Lit Close Reading | 30-Minute Lesson

Created by
Plotting Something

Virginia Woolf’s “A Haunted House” fits easily into part of a class period, but the shifting pronouns and two couples can make the first read confusing. I revised this activity after using the story with my own AP Lit students and seeing where they lost the thread. The first five questions help stud

10th - Higher Education Close Reading, Literature, Short Stories

$3.00

The Open Window | Saki Short Story | Irony, Characterization & Twist Ending

Created by
Plotting Something

Teach Saki’s “The Open Window” in one class period without stopping the story to death. Students read the complete story straight through, briefly sort out the ending, and then go back to examine how Vera gets Framton to believe her. Includes the full public-domain text in a beautifully illustrated

8th - 12th Close Reading, Literature, Short Stories

$4.99

Wizard of Oz Story Sequence Activity Game Craft Book Illustrations Cards

Created by
Eden Digital Arts

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz black and white antique book illustrations cards for storyline sequencing games and activities, 24 cards total. Cards could be colored and played as a "find the match" game.For best results print them on thick cardstock paper.The cards were made with photocopies from the a

Not Grade Specific Balanced Literacy, Close Reading, Reading Strategies

Also included in: Wonderful Wizard of Oz Coloring Bundle of Mini Cards and Bookmarks Activities

$3.98

Wonderful Wizard of Oz Coloring Bundle of Mini Cards and Bookmarks Activities

Created by
Eden Digital Arts

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz bundle of mini cards for sequencing games and coloring bookmarks with quotes. Low prep crafts and activities. SIMILAR COLORING ITEMS YOU MIGHT LIKEPlease follow my store to receive notifications of new items postedFor personal use by one teacher only, please do not resell,

Not Grade Specific English Language Arts, Close Reading, Literature

Bundle (2 products)

$6.23

$4.36

Bundle of Editable Text Bookmarks To Color Custom Name Book Marker Student Gifts

Created by
Eden Digital Arts

A bundle of editable text coloring bookmarks, Canva templates.Personalized low-prep crafts, keepsake student gifts/rewards with doodle pattern. Fun and customizable coloring bookmarks! Easily personalize each bookmark with a name/text using a free Canva account. Perfect for classroom gifts, party fa

Not Grade Specific Close Reading, Library Skills, Social Emotional Learning

Bundle (5 products)

$16.25

$10.95

air ear are aw Blends Spelling Practice 2nd 3rd Grade Phonics Review Worksheets

Created by
The Wordsmith Cat

During phonics practice, students often need repeated opportunities to decode and spell words with targeted patterns in meaningful contexts. This set of phonics worksheets provides focused practice with air, ear, are and aw patterns, along with additional vowel patterns, blends, digraphs and trigrap

1st - 3rd Close Reading, Reading Strategies, Science of Reading

$2.20

Digraph Trigraph Consonant Blends Review Worksheet Spelling Review 2nd 3rd Grade

Created by
The Wordsmith Cat

This consonant blends worksheet bundle includes initial and final digraph and trigraph blends. Students will read and write spelling words with beginning consonant blends and blends ending in two and three letters. This resource provides 45 blends and digraphs/trigraphs worksheets for students in 2n

1st - 3rd Close Reading, Reading Strategies, Science of Reading

Also included in: Phonics Skill Assessment 2nd 3rd Grade Spelling Sound Blends Word Review Packet

$5.00

Figurative Language Scoot Game Task Cards - Review & Test Prep: Print & Digital

Created by
iTeach & iWrite

In this educational grammar SCOOT game, students move through 20 different task cards to identify 9 different types of figurative language: alliteration, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, personification, adage, idiom, and imagery. Ideal for elementary and middle school ELA teachers.

4th - 7th English Language Arts, Close Reading, Reading

Also included in: Figurative Language Bundle: Notes Booklet, Scoot Task Cards, Printable Card Game

Google Drive

$5.00

The Fall of the House of Usher Unit | Edgar Allan Poe Reading Guide & Quizzes

Created by
Plotting Something

Teaching “The Fall of the House of Usher” is difficult for one simple reason: students cannot analyze what they cannot follow. Poe’s prose is dense, the plot is strange, and the story’s best ideas only land when students know what is actually happening.This 8–9 day guided-reading unit gives students

9th - 12th Close Reading, Literature, Reading

Also included in: Edgar Allan Poe Unit Bundle | Background, The Raven & House of Usher

$7.50