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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 MeetingGrade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: A Chicago Changer
REALISTIC FICTION: I Like PlantsGrade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: City Systems
REALISTIC FICTION: More TreesSkill: Infer the Main IdeaGrade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:NONFICTION: Saving Your Family's Energy Dollar
FICTION: The Ants and the GrasshopperGrade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Space Food
REALISTIC FICTION: The ChallengeGrade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:NONFICTION: Animal Studies
REALISTIC FICTION: MousieSkill: Identify Fact and OpinionGrade 3 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:NONFICTION: A Very Helpful ResourceREALISTIC FICTION: GhanaGrade 4 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:NONFICTION: EgyptREALISTIC FICTION: Natural Gas: An American TreasureGrade 5 NONFICTION Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Chicago Changes
REALISTIC FICTION: EthiopiaSkill: Infer Meaning from ContextGrade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: What is a Fable?
FABLE: The Tortoise and the HareGrade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Learning about the Solar System
FICTION: The Astronaut's DiaryGrade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: An American Legacy
HISTORICAL FICTION: His First DollarSkill: Identify/Analyze SequenceGrade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Chicago Changes
FICTION: Letter to GrandmotherGrade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: American Explorers
FICTION: Traveling with Lewis and ClarkSkill: Infer PredictionsGrade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Working at the Hospital
FICTION: My New BrotherGrade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Working at the Television Station
REALISTIC FICTION: We're on the NewsGrade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Our Streets
REALISTIC FICTION: Changing Our StreetSkill: Analyze/Infer Cause-Effect RelationsGrade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Letter to the Mayor
REALISTIC FICTION: More TreesGrade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Painting the School
REALISTIC FICTION: I See MyselfGrade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: The Recycling Center
REALISTIC FICTION: A Better CommunitySkill: Compare and ContrastGrade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:NONFICTION: Chicago's First Leader
HISTORICAL FICTION: Potawatomie PrairieGrade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Seasons
HISTORICAL FICTION: Potawatomie PrairieGrade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Reversing the Chicago River
HISTORICAL FICTION: Potawatomie PrairieSkill: Locate and Classify InformationGrade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Before Chicago
FICTION: Spring is ComingGrade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: From Many Places
REALISTIC FICTION: Our LemonsSkill: Identify and Infer Character TraitsGrade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:Grade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
Skill: Analyze/Infer MotiveGrade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Choosing a Park
REALISTIC FICTION: Letter from ChicagoGrade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Election Choices
HISTORICAL FICTION: Lincoln's ChoiceSkill: Analyze/Infer RelationshipsGrade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Block Clubs
REALISTIC FICTION: The New FamilyGrade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: City GovernmentREALISTIC FICTION: Community Meeting
Grade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
NONFICTION: Pioneer FamiliesSkill: Analyze/Infer Mood, ToneGrade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:FICTION: The Little Red Hen
REALISTIC FICTION: The New StudentGrade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FICTION: The Little Red Hen
REALISTIC FICTION: The History MysteryGrade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FICTION: Nature's Violet Children
FICTION: The CloudSkill: Figure out how the Author Uses Techniques to CommunicateGrade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
POEM: This Little Light of Mine
REALISTIC FICTION: The TrainGrade 4 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FICTION: The Different Bird
POEM: We Shall OvercomeGrade 5 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FABLE: City Mouse
POEM: His Eye is on the SparrowSkill: Analyze/Infer the Author's Point of ViewGrade 3 Readings with Multiple Choice and Short Response Questions:
FABLE: The Boy Who Cried Wolf
POEM: RaindropsGrade 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_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________- 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."
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________- 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 3RM
(5.8MB)SPTB
(680K)Grade 4RM
(5.6MB)SPTB
(1MB)Grade 5RM
(5.4MB)SAB
(212K)SPTB
(836K)_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Common Core Reading Passages Grade 3- These passages are closely aligned to ACT Aspire.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________- 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.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Identify New VocabularySKILL
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
Define words
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)
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)
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 Use new vocabulary insentences
Writing Connections (Grades 3-8)
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)
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
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
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________- 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.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________- Understanding the Testing Genre
Standardized Testing as a Genre
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________- Please use the following Power Point Presentations during grade level meetings and/or PLC meetings.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________- Implement these strategies daily and your students will perform above national average. Read the statistics (POWERFUL AND EFFECTIVE).
Marzano's High Yield Instructional Strategies
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________- Interpreting Poems
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - The following readings include multiple-choice questions that focus onone skill. The readings can be used separately without the skill-based questions.
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