Daily Common Core Literature Practice

Sometimes your students need a real quick review. Quick practice when the students first enter the room can really make the difference. A student has a chance to review a skill that they need extra help with.  It also keeps skills that have already been taught fresh in students' minds. 

I use these quick daily Common Core reading passages at the beginning of my lessons as I work with students across the grade levels.  Use them as a quick 5 minute daily morning review or send them home as Common Core aligned reading homework.  For more information click the link.

5 WEEKS OF PRACTICE PER BUNDLE

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What Does Close Reading Look Like?

Middle School Common Core Bundle

On sale for 50% only for 48 hours.  This is a great value.  The entire bundle of 120+ task cards is on sale for $7.50 for this limited time period.  It is equivalent to purchasing two boxes of task cards and getting three boxes for free.  Characters RL.3, Figurative Language RL.4, and RI.4, Elements of Poetry and Drama RL.5, Point of View RL.6 and RI.6 are all included.Click Here To Access Them.

Free Close Reading Video

This free video provides helpful strategies for doing a close reading of text.

Additional Close Reading Resources

Grades 6-8 Click Here

Grade 6 Middle School Daily Common Core Literature Practice

If you are looking for resources to make the transition to Common Core as smooth as possible, I believe you will find this resource helpful.  It contains quick, daily Common Core reading passages that can be completed in just a few minutes when students first enter the classroom.  There is a passage for each day of the school week.  Informational text, literature, poetry, realistic fiction, historical fiction, fantasy dystopian fiction passages are all included.  All of the Common Core Literature and Informational Text passages are covered as the weeks progress.  The Common Core Standard is written above each question for easy progress monitoring.  Questions are asked and different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy across multiple genres for thorough Common Core review.Click Here To Access It

What Does It Mean To Divide Fractions?

What does it mean to divide a fraction by a fraction?  This is a great starting point for beginning a unit about dividing fractions. The reason why is because it encourages students to understand concepts first and learn procedures for solving math problems second.

(To access task cards that teach and review this concept, scroll to the bottom of this blog post.)

Using a question and diagrams as a starting point will help students better understand and identify word problems that involve the division of fractions.

Once students understand what dividing fractions means, they can move on to procedures.  Dividing fractions seems less scary can be applied to a variety of contexts.

Task cards that teach and review math concepts enable students to work independently but still have teacher support. 

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