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Downloadable Teaching Materials to Use With Storia

Choose from graphic organizers, charts, reading response sheets, and other donwloadable e-reading resources that can be used with Storia books.

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

Included Here:

Reading Comprehension (6)
Strategies (6)
Vocabulary (5)
Nonfiction (4)
Mystery (3)
Teacher Resources (3)

Reading Comprehension

Setting the Stage: A Reading Response Graphic Organizer

Students draw a picture of the setting of the story they have read and then write about why the author may have chosen that setting.

Story Board: A Reading Comprehension Graphic Organizer

This graphic organizer helps students recall and identify key story events as they draw or write those events in chronological order.

My Reading Response Web: A Graphic Organizer Poster

Make it easy for all students to do awesome book reports with this motivating fill-in poster template. It's great for reluctant writers!

What’s the Main Idea? A Reading Comprehension Graphic Organizer

This fish-bone organizer helps students recognize that nonfiction articles and expository writing contain a main idea and supporting details.

Character Columns: A Character Analysis Graphic Organizer

Children will analyze a character by identifying what that character sees, does, feels, and thinks during a story.

Blank Character Trait Chart

Encourage students to use inference skills to analyze a character using character traits -- and cite evidence from text to support their conclusions about the character.

Strategies

Crossing the Prediction Bridge: A Reading Response Graphic Organizer

Before they read, students fill in the left side of each bridge with predictions about the book and characters. At the end of the book, they fill in the other side.

Memorable Images: A Reading Response for Fiction Graphic Organizer

Students record visual images and tell why those images were memorable, a strategy that helps them connect to the text and retain information and meaning.

Cause-and-Effect Machine: A Reading Response for Fiction Graphic Organizer

Students focus on character actions and their effect on the story line, and then explaining how this cause-and-effect relationship changed the direction of the story.

Active Reading: A Graphic Organizer

This organizer helps students comprehend what they read by asking questions, predicting, visualizing, connecting, and responding to the text.

That Reminds Me! A Reading Response Graphic Organizer

Students connect a book's events to experiences in their own lives and use those personal connections to help them more fully understand what they read.

Reader-Response Triple Scoop: A Graphic Organizer

This ice-cream graphic organizer helps children practice making meaningful comparisons about a story to their lives, other books, and the world.

Vocabulary

Vocabulary Quilt Graphic Organizer

Children identify new vocabulary and use context clues to determine the meaning of the word — an essential strategy for reading comprehension.

The Word Family House: A Reading Response Graphic Organizer

Students look for words in their books that belong to the word family and fill them in on the sheet. (Teachers may fill in any word family.)

Reading for Rhymes: A Reading Response Graphic Organizer

As they read, students look for rhyming words, write them on their reading response activity sheet, and draw pictures of each. By Erica Bohrer.

What I Know About Words: A Using Prior Knowledge Graphic Organizer

As they come across an unfamiliar word, students write down what they know about it and use clues and their reading to understand what it might mean.

Nonfiction Vocabulary Graphic Organizer

Children will focus on two key words based on a nonfiction selection and, with your help, determine and write the meaning of each, as well as draw pictures that explain each word.

Nonfiction

Five Finger Facts: Reading Response Graphic Organizer

Students read a nonfiction text, then record five facts -- one fact on each finger -- that they learned.

Ordering Biographical Events: A Sequencing Time Line

Students will use this timeline to write, in the order in which they happened, five important events from a person's life.

Nonfiction vs. Fiction Graphic Organizer

Students compare fiction and nonfiction books on the same topic and contrast them to develop a greater understanding of both genres, and increase their comprehension.

What’s the Scoop: A Graphic Organizer

Students monitor their own interactions with nonfiction text – asking questions, reacting to surprising information, pointing out something they learned -- to increase comprehension.

Mystery

Clue Clipboard: A Reading Detectives Reproducible

As they are reading a mystery, students use this "clue clipboard" by Beth Newingham to keep track of any clues that might help them solve the whodunit.

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