Back to School Reading Comprehension Questions, Passages, Activities - September
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Do you want engaging reading passages for the year (back to school, fall, winter, spring, end of the year, summer)? You need these daily reading comprehension passages and questions for the entire school year. Use these daily one-page reading comprehension worksheets with fun, seasonal nonfiction anPrice $31.90Original Price $55.00Save $23.10
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Do you want engaging reading passages for August and September? You need these daily reading comprehension passages and questions for back to school (school, community, all about me, fire safety, and apple-themed). Use these daily one-page reading worksheets with fun, seasonal nonfiction and fiction stories to build literacy skills and fluency through repeated reading and short answer questions.
These are great for small group instruction, homework, and morning work. These activities have a short reading passage and 3 follow-up sections to complete.
This resource provides a lot of reading practice each month to help build comprehension skills. All 20 of the mats cover a variety of seasonal topics. There are fiction and non-fiction reading passages included.
Buy the bundle and SAVE (4 packs for FREE)! This BUNDLE is a collection of my monthly Comprehension Mat resources. Each pack is now included!
***View the detailed previews and products included BELOW! Watch the video preview to see Comprehension Mats in action!***
3 RESOURCES IN 1:
- PDF or PPT - Just open the PDF or PPT file and print!
- GOOGLE SLIDES - Assign each reading comprehension passage in Google Slides, which includes interactive pieces to move and text boxes to fill in.
- SEESAW - Add an activity to Seesaw with the included images!
Comprehension Mats are great for small group instruction, homework, and morning work. These printable activities have a short reading passage and 3 follow-up sections to complete.
Components of Comprehension Mats:
- Students must read the passage 3 times and color a seasonal shape after each read. They will build fluency through repeated reading.
- They draw or write about the story or a connection they make.
- They answer and complete different questions.
This resource provides a lot of reading practice each month to help build comprehension skills and fluency.
The skills covered in Comprehension Mats:
- Reading for information
- Locating text evidence
- Locating, highlighting, and recording short vowels
- Locating, highlighting, and recording sight words
- Locating, highlighting, and recording verbs, nouns, and adjectives
- Answering questions in complete sentences
- Making connections
- Sequencing story events
Topics:
- Goodbye Summer
- The First Day of School
- School Helpers
- The Classroom
- Learning at School
- Friends
- People In The Community
- Recess
- School Supplies
- All About Me
- School Subjects
- Getting Ready
- Teachers
- Apple Picking
- Apple Life Cycle
- Fire Safety
- Being a Fire Fighter
- Jobs at Home
- The Birthday Party
- Hobbies
The activities align with the Common Core standards for first grade. This is perfect for first grade, but could also be used for a challenge in Kindergarten and for extra practice/as review for second grade.
Additional pages are provided for Canadian users. Additional pages include Canadian spelling and content.
6 ways to use Comprehension Mats in your classroom!
1. Print Comprehension Mats on cardstock, laminate, and use with whiteboard markers!
2. Shrink and print Comprehension Mats and use in your interactive notebooks!
3. Copy Comprehension Mats back to back with the cover page to create a booklet!
4. Copy and put into a folder. Use for morning work or fast finishers!
5. Use with Seesaw by uploading the image files included in this resource and assigning it to your class (instructions provided).
6. Use with your class in Google Classroom (instructions provided).
TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID...
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Nicole S. says, "Thank you for these appropriate for the grade (not always the case when in Canada), interesting and fun looking mats. These save me time, which I am so appreciative of! My students are engaged in these readings - they are perfect."
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Nikki B. says, "I loved these mats before everything went digital and love them even more now. Variety of age appropriate topics to pick and choose from with a wide variety of questions."
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Erika R. says, "This is perfect for my small groups and covers multiple standards in a short time frame"
You can view all of the monthly mat products, as well as other months of Comprehension Mats HERE!
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