Stuck inside while Hurricane Sandy makes her move outside...so I've been busy working on some fun for school!

Main Idea and Details Turkey Graphic Organizer

Check out the graphic organizer in the shape of a turkey that  will get your students thinking! Have them read a grade-level appropriate passage and work with them to name the main idea and help them to find supporting details by going back and re-reading the passage. All students will have fun identifying the main idea and supporting details from the text.  

Main Idea and Details Turkey Graphic Organizer

• Main idea turkey
• 4 Details feathers 
• 4 Blank feathers

Common core standards:

Grade 1: CC1RI2 - Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

Grade 2: CC2RI2 - dentify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.

Grade 3: CC3RI2 - Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

Grade 4: CC4RI2 - Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

Grade 5: CC5RI2 - Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details;summarize the text.

Also, a freebie fun for Halloween...some clip art!

FREEBIE! Halloween Clip Art

Thanks for reading!  And if Sandy's coming your way stay safe!

Reading Comprehension Target Skill Posters

I've been having some fun creating some Reading Comprehension Target Skill Posters.  They  clearly identify target skills and define them in student friendly terms. Use these bright and colorful posters will encourage students to improve reading comprehension and understanding of comprehension strategies through the use of target skills.

Reading Comprehension Target Skill Posters includes:
- 11 Target Skill Posters with corresponding definitions

- Author's Purpose
- Cause and Effect
- Main Idea and Details (separate boards)
- Realism or Fantasy
- Sequence
- Setting
- Summarize
- Theme 
- Vocabulary
- Character


* These are also great to post on your focus wall or standards wall. Students will be able to identify the objective related to the common core related standard in their own words.

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Reading Comprehension Target Skill Posters

Character Squares

Knowing about characters can help students better understand the story. Students will use the character square graphic organizer to identify character traits, illustrate a picture of how they visualize the character, identify the character's challenge (problem) and how the character faces her challenge (resolution).

Students can write the character's name on the starburst and then attach it to the center of the character square page.

Character Square on Teachers Pay Teachers!

PS: Here's what they look like...

Character Squares