Wild About Books - Freebie!

Have you read

Wild About Books, by Judy Sierra?

It's a rollicking ride following librarian Molly McGrew's trip to the zoo in her bookmobile.

You can address so many Common Core standards with this book.

Check out my full packet on Teachers Pay Teachers for more!

In the meantime, here is a freebie for you.

Students must write details from the beginning, middle, and end of the story, using complete sentences.

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Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa - Text Exemplar - Freebie

The next installment in my series on Common Core text exemplars for second and third grades is based on Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa. This packet contains activities on compound words, relating events to chapters, using illustrations to determine meaning of text, writing an opinion piece, and much more!

Just click on the pic above to download the packet of activities to go along with the story.

Plot Cards -- Freebie!

I'm a little behind in my posting because I went to Bonnaroo this past weekend! Here's a pic with my teaching teammate and my only friend who will go!

We had a great time, but it sure was hard to get back to reality Monday morning when we had to work on our district's curriculum as we transition over to Common Core.

Here are some Beginning, Middle, and Ending cards to use when analyzing plot. Put the large cards on the board and let students stick events from the story under the correct heading.

I included small cards you can use as student response cards if you want your whole class to respond to placement of events. You can also place them in a literacy station.

Click on the pic above to download the cards.