Reading projects

Visualizing the text is such an important reading strategy used for building your students’ reading comprehension. This reading teacher's blog post shares teaching tips, strategies, activities, and resources for teaching visualizing in your classroom (reading crafts, posters and graphic organizers). Helpful for second grade, third grade, fourth grade, and fifth grade teachers.

Need a creative and compelling final project for your next novel? Try the literary food truck festival! This popular project (free curriculum awaits!) gets students thinking critically about any novel in a fun, engaging way. Check out this blog post for the easy steps to success and to sign up for your free curriculum set. #englishteacher #choicereading #iteachela #2ndaryela #englishteacherideas

Teaching Beginning English Language Learners How To Retell

Motivate students with independent reading by adding engaging reading sprints...turn the traditional reading log upside down!

Teach students to visualize while they read with this free printable template! First, your students will draw a picture that appears in their mind while reading. Next, students will describe the picture on the lines provided. This free worksheet will work with any text! Download your copy today! #freeprintable #freebie #visualizing

These tab books are a super engaging way to make nonfiction book report writing meaningful and fun! Skills covered include main idea and supporting details, nonfiction text strucuture, nonfiction text features, author's point of view, summarizing, and more. A low prep, printable activity that is great for independent or group work with students in grades 3, 4, 5 or 6. Use for any informational text or nonfiction reading passage.

Create a view of a book scene through a keyhole, point of view reading activity

Oh baby! There's nothing better than doodles to get students excited about learning. In the free doodle book review, students complete planning pages before creating a doodle-themed, one-page book report. This book review is accessible and fun...and since I know your students will LOVE IT, I'm providing an exclusive FREE DOODLE BOOK REVIEW.

22 Creative Ways Kids Can Respond to Books. Book reports don't have to be boring. Help your students make the books they read come alive with these 22 creative book report ideas and examples. #bookreport #reading #teachingreading #books #elementaryschool #middleschool #elementary #teaching #teacher

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Passion projects have changed my relationships with my students forever.

There are so many fun and engaging book report ideas to keep reader response exciting for upper elementary students (3rd, 4th, 5th grades)

Explore an exciting alternative assessment for English Language Arts - this book trailer project is an all-time favorite for my students!

I recently assigned a one pager final project to my sophomores for their culminating Night project. I wanted to combine as many rigorous ELA content ideas as possible, while also designing a fun project for students that provided them with a bit of choice. This Night one pager project was the perfect way to finish the memoir!

Support your child's reading and spelling skills with our CVC Word Flowers activity! Watch as they match and plant the letter flowers to form the CVC word. Encourage them to sound out each letter and blend the letters together to read the CVC word.