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Asking And Answering Questions 2nd Grade

Ask and Answer Questions

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Historical Influence on Modern Literaature

Fiction: Themes and Patterns

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Adding Prefixes

Adding Prefixes

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How a Narrator's Point of View Influences Events

Narrator's Point of View

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Using Illustrations to Help Understand Text

Gain Meaning from Pictures

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Mystery Words Kindergarten

Identify Unknown Words

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Retelling

Stories with Pictures

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Intro to Reading

Read Stories

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Parts of a Story

Important Characters

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Comparing Literature to Film

Comparing Film and Literature

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Identifying The Central Idea

Central idea

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Fact or Opinion - Evaluating Claims

Author's Argument

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Reading Words with Two Vowels

Vowel Teams

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Narrator's Point of View 6th Grade

Point of View

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Poems

Poems and Fables

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Intro to Context Clues 4th Grade

Meaning of Words and Phrases

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Long And Short Vowels

Long and Short Vowels

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Comparing Themes

Compare and Contrast Themes

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Summarizing the Main Idea

Summarize a Text's Main Idea

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Introduction to Summarizing

Summarizing a Text

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Reading Activities and Teaching Resources for Preschool through 8th Grade

Enjoy these free reading resources from eSpark’s growing curriculum library. Featured activities include: framing videos to introduce students to concepts using the principles of explicit instruction; instructional videos to teach the concept in depth using modeling and guided practice; games to support independent practice through a favorite medium; and a variety of interactive stories, poems, and texts to support literacy instruction with a strong balance of fiction and non-fiction options to choose from.

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When you sign up for an eSpark account, your students experience these activities via adaptive, differentiated independent pathways and teacher-driven small group assignments. Teachers also have access to detailed usage and progress reports with valuable insights into standards mastery, student growth trends, and intervention opportunities.

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