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    • The following readings include multiple-choice questions that focus onone skill. The readings can be used separately without the skill-based questions. 

    Skill: Summarize 

    Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: Animal Studies
    REALISTIC FICTION: Community Meeting

     

    Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: A Chicago Changer
    REALISTIC FICTION: I Like Plants 

    Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: City Systems
    REALISTIC FICTION: More Trees 

     
    Skill: Infer the Main Idea
    Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:

    NONFICTION: Saving Your Family's Energy Dollar
    FICTION: The Ants and the Grasshopper 

    Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: Space Food
    REALISTIC FICTION: The Challenge

    Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:

    NONFICTION: Animal Studies
    REALISTIC FICTION: Mousie 

     
    Skill: Identify Fact and Opinion
     
    Grade 3 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: A Very Helpful Resource
    REALISTIC FICTION: Ghana
     
    Grade 4 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: Egypt
    REALISTIC FICTION: Natural Gas: An American Treasure

    Grade 5 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: Chicago Changes
    REALISTIC FICTION: Ethiopia 

     
    Skill: Infer Meaning from Context

    Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: What is a Fable?
    FABLE: The Tortoise and the Hare

    Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: Learning about the Solar System
    FICTION: The Astronaut's Diary

    Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: An American Legacy
    HISTORICAL FICTION: His First Dollar 

     
    Skill: Identify/Analyze Sequence

    Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: Chicago Changes
    FICTION: Letter to Grandmother

    Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:

    NONFICTION: Staying in Phoenix
    FICTION: Living in the Desert

    Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: American Explorers
    FICTION: Traveling with Lewis and Clark 

     
    Skill: Infer Predictions

    Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: Working at the Hospital
    FICTION: My New Brother 

    Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: Working at the Television Station
    REALISTIC FICTION: We're on the News

    Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: Our Streets
    REALISTIC FICTION: Changing Our Street 

     
    Skill: Analyze/Infer Cause-Effect Relations
    Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: Letter to the Mayor
    REALISTIC FICTION: More Trees

    Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: Painting the School
    REALISTIC FICTION: I See Myself

    Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: The Recycling Center
    REALISTIC FICTION: A Better Community 

     
    Skill: Compare and Contrast
    Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:

    NONFICTION: Chicago's First Leader
    HISTORICAL FICTION: Potawatomie Prairie

    Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: Seasons
    HISTORICAL FICTION: Potawatomie Prairie

    Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: Reversing the Chicago River
    HISTORICAL FICTION: Potawatomie Prairie 

     
    Skill: Locate and Classify Information

    Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: Before Chicago
    FICTION: Spring is Coming

    Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: Changing the Prairie
    REALISTIC FICTION: The Prairie Project

    Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: From Many Places
    REALISTIC FICTION: Our Lemons

     
     
    Skill: Identify and Infer Character Traits
    Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    FICTION: The Turtle and the Ducks
    NONFICTION: The Chicago Fire

    Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:

    FICTION: A Proud Flight
    NONFICTION: Pigeon Creek

    Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions: 

    HISTORICAL FICTION: Soldier's Letter
    NONFICTION: Valley Forge
     
     Skill: Analyze/Infer Motive

    Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: Choosing a Park
    REALISTIC FICTION: Letter from Chicago

    Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:

    NONFICTION: Prairie Pioneers
    FOLKTALE: How the Firefly Got Its Light

    Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: Election Choices
    HISTORICAL FICTION: Lincoln's Choice

     
    Skill: Analyze/Infer Relationships

    Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: Block Clubs
    REALISTIC FICTION: The New Family

    Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: City Government

    REALISTIC FICTION: Community Meeting 

    Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: Pioneer Families

    REALISTIC FICTION: Pioneer Diary
     
     
    Skill: Analyze/Infer Mood, Tone
     
    Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:

    FICTION: The Little Red Hen
    REALISTIC FICTION: The New Student

    Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    FICTION: The Little Red Hen
    REALISTIC FICTION: The History Mystery

    Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    FICTION: Nature's Violet Children
    FICTION: The Cloud  

     
    Skill: Figure out how the Author Uses Techniques to Communicate

    Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:

    POEM: This Little Light of Mine
    REALISTIC FICTION: The Train

     

    Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    FICTION: The Different Bird
    POEM: We Shall Overcome

    Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    FABLE: City Mouse
    POEM: His Eye is on the Sparrow 

     
    Skill: Analyze/Infer the Author's Point of View

    Grade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    FABLE: The Boy Who Cried Wolf
    POEM: Raindrops

    Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: The Working Tools of Insects
    REALISTIC FICTION: Why Did Mama Change Her Mind?

    Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
    NONFICTION: Who Am I?
    REALISTIC FICTION: Mama's Happy Christmas

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    • The resources below promote INSTRUCTIONAL RIGOR and they can be adapted to your grade level. "Let's not believe what our students can't do, let's prepare them for what they can do."
    501 Reading Comprehension Questions
     
    501 Critical Reading Questions
     
    501 Sentence Completion Questions
     
    501 Writing Prompts 
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    • Excellent Practice Tests from Vermont. After careful critique, these tests closely align to ACT Aspire. Please give me your feedback. 
     
    Grade Level
    Resource
    Materials (RM)
    PDF*
    Student Answer
    Booklet (SAB)
    PDF*
    Sample Practice
    Test Booklet (SPTB)
    PDF*
    Grade 3
    RM
    (5.8MB)

    SPTB
    (680K)
    Grade 4
    RM
    (5.6MB)
     
    SPTB
    (1MB)
    Grade 5
    RM
    (5.4MB)
    SAB
    (212K)
    SPTB
    (836K)
     
     
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    • These passages are closely aligned to ACT Aspire. 
    Common Core Reading Passages Grade 3
     
    Common Core Prep Passages Grade 3
     
    Common Core Reading Passages Grade 4 
     
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    • Pay close attention to vocabulary and the instruction must be explicit. The lack of vocabulary knowledge will impede on a students ability to rank above average on national assessments.

    Multiple Meaning Words 

     
    Synonym Word List 
     
    Test Taking Vocabulary 
     
    Test-Taking Key Word Vocabulary 
     
    High-Frequency Vocabulary on Standardized Tests 
     
    Academic Vocabulary K-5 
     
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    Identify New Vocabulary

    SKILL

    Activity/Assessment Guides

    Assess when students work independently.

    Draw pictures to show important words

    Picture Vocabulary for a Topic English / Spanish (Grades K-2)

     

    Visualize Vocabulary  English / Spanish

    Word Builder

    Word-Picture Grid

     

    Define words

    Explain Word Meaning

     

    Show What You Know: Alphabet Letters and Words

     

    Crossword Puzzle Maker English / Spanish (Grades 3-8)

     

    Word Bank English / Spanish (Grades K-8)

    I Can Give Examples of Synonyms and Antonyms  (Grades 3-8)

    Translate-Synonym-Paraphrase Grid

    Use words to explain an idea

    Idea and Vocabulary Connections  English / Spanish  Grades 3-8

     

    Identify wordsimportant to a topic

    Topic Glossary (Grades K-8)

    Word Bank English / Spanish (Grades K-8)

    Words Make Meaning English / Spanish  (Grades 3-8)

    Important Words  English / Spanish  (Grades 3-8)

    Picture Word Bank English / Spanish (Grades K-2)

    Important Words Learning Log

     

    Idea and Vocabulary Connections English / Spanish

    Infer meaning from context

    I Can Infer the Meaning of a Word in Context (Grades 3-8)

    I Can Infer the Meaning of a Word from Context—one page postable questions(Grades 3-8)

    I Can Infer the Meaning of a Multi-Meaning Word in Context

     

    Make Up Vocabulary Multiple Choice Questions

     

    Decode words usingphonics

    Topical Phonics: Animals

    Word Bank: Final Consonant Classroom Phonics

     Use new vocabulary insentences 

    Writing Connections  (Grades 3-8)

     

    Sentence Builder English / Spanish

    Sight Words Sentence Builder

    Recognize and use Sight Vocabulary

    Initial Sight Words-Writing Sentences to Learn Vocabulary in Context  (Kindergarten)

    First 200 Hundred Sight Words-Writing Sentences to Learn Vocabulary in Context (Grades K-1)

    Three Hundred Sight Words-Writing Sentences to Learn Vocabulary in Context (Grades K-3)

    Fry Vocabulary Activities

    Sight Words Sentence Builder

     

    Kinds of Words

     

    SKILL

    Activity/Assessment Guides

    Assess when students work independently.

    Identify and useadjectives

    Community Places Word Builder English / Spanish  (Grades 2-4)

    Relate words to a topic and classify them byparts of speech

    You're the _____  English / Spanish (Grades 3-8)

     

    Thinking Vocabulary English / Spanish

     

    Science Word Bank

     

    Classify singular and plural nouns

    I Can Classify Singular and Plural Nouns  (Grades 3-8)

     

    Syllables and Spelling Rules

    SKILL

    Activity/Assessment Guides

    Assess when students work independently.

    Classify words based on sounds 

    Sounds the Same, Spelled Differently  (Grades 3-8)

     

     Identify spelling exceptions 

    Surprising Spelling (Grades 3-8)

     

    Identify spelling rules/patterns

    Discover Spelling Rules  (Grades 3-8)

     

    Seeing the Spelling Rules (Grades 3-8)

     

    Spelling Pattern Word Chart (Grades 3-8)

     

    Identify syllables

    Hear the Parts (Grades 3-8)

     

    Make an exhibit to explain a topic Spell Well to Know More
     

    Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes

     

    SKILL

    Activity/Assessment Guides

    Assess when students work independently.

    Identify and useprefixes and suffixes

    I Can Identify and Use Prefixes  (Grades 3-8)

     

    I Can Identify and Use Suffixes  (Grades 3-8)

     

    Prefixes and Suffixes Change Meaning (Grades 3-8)

     

    Word Analyzer (Grades 3-8)

     

    Identify root words

    I Can Identify Root Words  (Grades 3-8)

     

    Content Vocabulary Guides: Science

    SUBJECT

    Activity/Assessment Guides

    Assess when students work independently.

     

    Science Vocabulary 

     

     

    Resources:

     

    Grade-by-Grade Science Vocabulary:

      Ecology

     


     

    Content Vocabulary Builder

    Word Bank English / Spanish(Grades K-8)

    Science Glossary

     

    Science Synonyms

     

    Science Word Bank English / Spanish

     

    Set Up Science Word Exhibits

     

    Ecology and Parts of Speech

     

    Season Phonics

     

    Animal Movement Phonics

     

    Technology Alphabet

     

    Discoveries Alphabet

     
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    • During my research, I found this excellent test-taking strategy tool. For the 2014-2015 school year, please utilize the following resource with every weekly assessment that you give for Reading. In order for your students to own this thinking behavior, you must be CONSISTENT with your expectations. Please make this a non-negotiable with your students. 
    Weekly Assessment Tool 
     
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    • Understanding the Testing Genre 

    Standardized Testing as a Genre 

    Understanding the Testing Genre 
     
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    • Please use the following Power Point Presentations during grade level meetings and/or PLC meetings.

    Test Preparation 

     
    Test-taking Strategies 
     
    Strategies for Readers 
     
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    • Implement these strategies daily and your students will perform above national average. Read the statistics (POWERFUL AND EFFECTIVE).

    Marzano's High Yield Instructional Strategies 

     
    Marzano's High Yield Instructional Strategies RESEARCH
     
     
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    Common Core Questions 
     
    Reading Questioning Stems 
     
    Questioning Stems by Skills 
     
    Questioning Stems for Text-based Evidence 
     
    Rubric for Constructed Response Grade 3 
     
    Rubric for Constructed Responses Grades 4-5 
     
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    • Interpreting Poems

    Interpret a Song or Poem 

    Common Core Poem Interpreter
     
    Compare and Contrasting Poems 
     
    Poems and Places
     
    Sound of Rain 
     
    Spring is a Cat 
     
    Hope is the thing with feathers
     
    This little light of mine 
     
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    ETS Reading Practice Test 

    Grade 3 Practice Test
    Grade 4 Practice Test 
    Grade 5 Practice Test 
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    Grade 3 History Practice Test  
    Grade 3 History and Social Science Practice Test 
     
    Grade 5 Science Test  
    Grade 5 Science Practice Test 
     
    Grade 5 Practice Test -2  
    Grade 5 Science Practice Test -2 Answer Key 
     
    Grade 4 Science Written Test 2014 
      
    Grade 4 Science Written Test 2014 Rating Guide  
    Grade 4 Science Written Test 2013 
     
    Grade 4 Science Written Test 2013 Rating Guide  
    Grade 4 Science Sample Test
     
    Grade 4 Science Example Test 
     
    Grade 4 Science Benchmark 
     
    Elementary Science Example Test 
     
    Sample Elementary Science Example Test -2 
     
    Grade 5 Science Practice Test 
     
    Grade 5 Science Practice Test 2 
     
    Electrical Circuits Unit 
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    Grade 3 Reading Florida Practice Test 
    Grade 3 Florida Answer Key 
     
    Grade 4 Reading Florida Practice Test 
    Grade 4 Reading Florida Answer Key 
     
    Grade 5 Reading Florida Practice Test 
    Grade 5 Reading Florida Answer Key 
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    Grade 3 PARCC Reading 2015 Practice Test 
    Grade 3 PARCC Reading 2015 Answer Key 
    Grade 3 PARCC Reading End of the Year 2015 Practice Test 
    Grade 3 PARCC Reading End of the Year 2015 Answer Key 
     
    Grade 4 PARCC Reading 2015 Practice Test 
    Grade 4 PARCC Reading 2015 Answer Key 
    Grade 4 PARCC Reading End of the Year 2015 Practice Test 
    Grade 4 PARCC Reading End of the Year 2015 Answer Key 
     
    Grade 5 PARCC Reading 2015 Practice Test 
    Grade 5 PARCC Reading 2015 Answer Key 
    Grade 5 PARCC Reading End of the Year 2015 Practice Test 
    Grade 5 PARCC Reading End of the Year 2015 Answer Key 
     
    Grade 3 PARCC English Practice Test 
    Grade 3 PARCC English Practice Test Answer Key 
     
    Grade 4 PARCC English Practice Test 
    Grade 4 PARCC English Practice Test Answer Key 
     
    Grade 5 PARCC English Practice Test
    Grade 5 PARCC English Practice Test Answer Key 
     
    Grade 3 PARCC English End of the Year Practice Test 
    Grade 3 PARCC English End of the Year Practice Test Answer Key 
     
    Grade 4 PARCC English End of the Year Practice Test 
     
    Grade 5 PARCC English End of the Year Practice Test 
    Grade 5 PARCC English End of the Year Practice Test Answer Key 
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