Foldable-1-6 Flap Booklets

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These simple and effective foldables can be used for ANY subject and provides you with opportunities to differentiate for your diverse learners. Just print, cut along the dotted lines, fold and you are done! This download contains many versions of flip booklets that have anywhere from 1 to 6 flaps.
Enjoy!
~Erin
The Organized Chaos of Instruction 

Reading Response Booklet-Square Cat

This download contains an 8-page mini-booklet that correlates to the story “Square Cat” by Elizabeth Schoonmaker. The activities below are included in this booklet and may be completed independently, with a partner, whole group, or in literacy workstations.

·         Author’s Purpose

·         Identify Problem/Solution

·         Pinpoint key events and their importance

·         Change in Character Feelings Throughout Story

·         Cause/Effect of Character Actions

·         Characteristics of a Good Friend

·         Create a timeline of key events

·         Vocabulary Enrichment-apply use of dictionary skills

·         Synonym Practice

·         Text Connections

·         Theme of Story

·         Book Review

This mini-booklet should be printed double-sided, folded, and stapled.
Enjoy!
~Erin

Reading Response (Fiction) Fold & Flip Booklet

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This simple little foldable is a simple printable that will provide students with this opportunity to respond to their reading. They will identify the main character (I'd also have the student describe the MC), the problem, resolution, favorite part (have them explain why it is their favorite) & a connection they made to the text.
Enjoy!
~Erin

BIG AL-Reading Response



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This download contains an 12-page mini-booklet that correlates to the story “BIG AL” by Andrew Clements & illustrated by Yoshi. The activities below are included in this booklet and may be completed independently, with a partner, whole group, or in literacy workstations.

·         Before/During Reading Predictions

·         Sticky Note Comprehension Parking Lot

·         Author’s Purpose

·         Identify Problem/Solution

·         Pinpoint key events and their importance

·         Change in Character Feelings Throughout Story

·         Characterization of Main Character

·         Create a timeline of key events

·         Vocabulary Enrichment-apply use of dictionary skills

·         Synonym Practice

·         Making Words activity-TREMENDOUS (mystery word) with letter strips

·         Theme of Story

·         Book Review

This mini-booklet should be printed double-sided, folded, and stapled.
Enjoy!
~Erin

Reading Response-"Things that are Most in the World" Booklet

This download contains a reading response booklet to the book, “Things that are the Most in the World” by Judi Barrett. Students will have the opportunity to review nouns, verbs & adjectives, as well as learn about superlatives! This booklet includes:

·         Students will identify the part of speech for a list of words.

·         Students will be given an adjective and must write the superlative for that word.

·         Students will generate a list of A-Z adjectives that they will later use to create their own “Things that are the Most in the World” page for a class book.

·         Students will create a page of their own that follows the same pattern from their book using one of the adjectives generated from the A-Z list.

Enjoy!
~Erin

Character Feelings-Flip Booklet

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Students will choose one character from the story and explain how that character’s feelings changed throughout the story. They should use text evidence to support their statements. On each tab, students will:

·         SW choose a word to describe how the character was feeling at the BEGINNING/MIDDLE/END of the story. They may NOT use happy or sad; instead, have them use a synonym from the thesaurus.

·         SW illustrate how the character was feeling (using text evidence) at the BEGINNING/MIDDLE/END of the story.

·         SW use text evidence from the story to explain how the character was feeling at the BEGINNING/MIDDLE/END. They will use text evidence from the story that supports their statements.

Enjoy!
~Erin

Mrs. McTats and Her Houseful of Cats-Lesson Outline & Reading Response Foldable




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This download contains an outline of lesson ideas for the book Mrs. Mctats and Her Houseful of Cats by Alyssa Satin Capucilli. A student reading response foldable is included and provides students with the opportunity to target the following skills:

·      Vocabulary Enrichment

·      Characterization

·      Author’s Purpose

·      Rhyming Words

·      Alphabetical Order

·      Story Patterns

• Text Connections

Oh No, GEORGE! Lesson Outline & Reading Response Foldable



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This download contains an outline of lesson ideas for the book Oh No, George by Chris Haughton. A student reading response foldable is included and provides students with the opportunity to target the following skills:

·      Making predictions

·      Cause/Effect

·      Character Traits

·      Contractions

Enjoy! ~Erin

Memoirs of a Goldfish-Reading Response

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This download contains reading response activities that go along with the book, "Memoirs of a Goldfish." Skills focus on:
-Characterization
-Character Feelings-how they change over time (cause/effect)
-Sequencing of events
-Vocabulary enrichment
I hope your students have as much fun completing the activities as I did creating them!
Enjoy!
~Erin

Reading & Math Response-"Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares"

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This download contains reading response activities for reading AND math!
Enjoy!
~Erin

Independent Reading Response Menu-Student Activity Sheets Included!!

 

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This download includes a detailed Independent Reading Response Menu AND all of the student activity pages that go along with each choice. This would be great to print for students' ISNs, independent work or workstations. It includes:
Fact & Opinion Outline
Prefix/Suffix Scavenger Hunt
BME Summary
Book Review
K-W-L-S Chart
A-Z Tell All About It!
Vocabulary Enrichment
Setting the Stage
Postcard Response
Enjoy!
~Erin

Author Study Choice Board

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This download provides students with a variety of choices as to how they can present research regarding a particular author.
Enjoy!
~Erin

Reading Response Foldable

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This activity can be completed as a class, in small groups, or independently by students. The layout of this product is intended to be a TRIFOLD reading response.
As always, I LOVE sharing my products however, please note that this item is for personal use only and should NOT be sold or shared online. Please do not upload this to your personal website, blog, or file sharing account. Instead, I ask that you share the link to my TPT store http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Organized-Chaos-Of-Instruction and/or my blog. http://theorganizedchaosofinstruction.blogspot.com/.
Enjoy!
~Erin

Independent Reading Response Activities

This menu includes a BUNCH of activities for students to choose from for reading response. Student activity pages are included. You could use this in a workstation or print them 4-6 per page to glud in the ISNs.
Enjoy!
~Erin



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Literature Circle Student Responsibility Cards

Here you will find activity cards to use when implementing Literature Circles in your classroom. I have introduced Lit. Circle to my class by using read alouds and then focusing on just one responsibility each time. Once all of the students have had the opportunity to do it with you, they can then begin to break apart into groups and be assigned roles. These roles change throughout the reading of an assigned novel.
There are SO many activities students can do within Literature Circles....if you have a role/responsibility that I have not listed on one of the cards, please let me know and I will happily create an additional card for you!
Enjoy!
~Erin

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Reading Response Choice Board All-in-One

Here you will find activities your students will enjoy before/during/after reading a "just right book." There are 12 different activities so that students have the opportunity to choose one that interests them...including some technology integration!
Use if you'd like!
~Erin

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Sticky Note Response Poster

I saw a great idea from Cheryl's Classroom Tips on Pinterest recently that showed a poster with squares all around so students could- respond to any topic using sticky notes. . I've taken this idea and tweaked it to allow space for the large rectangular stickies for longer student response. I printed this PDF on the Plotter (poster maker) and teachers have used it to have students respond to:
-What do you hope to learn this year?
-What is a characteristic of a good citizen and why is this characteristic so important to being a good citizen?
-Sharing schema you have with the text read
-Seed ideas for writing workshop
You really could have students respond to anything. It is a great way to preassess what students already know so that you can differentiate their learning.
Use if you'd like!
~Erin



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Reading Response Menu and Activities

I've been out sick for two days now...pink eye (ugh!) and although I could be sitting in my favorite chair reading one of my newest Kindle downloads, I've been working. I've cleaned EVERY room upstairs (including the bathrooms, closet, and attic). I figure, why waste time when I can get some good ole' organizing done...okay, to be honest with you I was organizing all the many toys/manipulatives I can take to my new classroom :)
I packaged up TONS of give-aways and newest (old) school materials. I remember bringing it all home (books especially) and now they are eagerly awaiting the hands of my new students!
Not only did I organize my house (did I mention I've now started on the downstairs and my closet?!), but I've begun to organize all my school files as well! For the past 8 years, I've been creating materials for teachers and as I go through all these goodies, I figured I'd share a few. Now, I am not a worksheet teacher, but I do have quite a few of them that I use as visuals and/or to teach note-taking. These are always placed in our learning journals/student notebooks so that we can refer back to them at a later date.
As I was organizing my files, I came across a Reading Response Menu and Activities that I used in grades 3-5. Feel free to use it in your last few weeks of school to encourage reading and response :)
Use if you'd like!
~Erin