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This MEGA bundle has been purchased by over 700 happy teachers! You receive 44 full weeks of curriculum, intervention, and "Comprehension and Fluency 101". Its over 1,000 pages! Buying the bundle is a choice to save big at a 50% savings!
This year-long unit contains:
- weekly thematic informational reading
- easy reading passages with 2-4 comprehension questions on the bottom
- higher level text passages
- fluency passages
- fluency charts
- comprehension / quiz pages Dec - June
- full writing units (brainstorming, writing, publishing pages)
- art to match
- The passages were carefully written and are research based!
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The Reading Passages
I have read all the fluency and guided reading books, so that you don't have to. You can trust that these passages and writing units were skillfully created with first grade reading skills and first grade readers in mind.
- Passages have been written to be VERY readable with teacher support.
- This year-long bundle begins with very simple passages that have 1 sentence per line with picture clues and sound just like a guided reading book. The are decodable to support the Science of Reading, yet picture clues are provided to also help kids visualize vocabulary.
- The year-long bundle ends with students reading multiple, rich-text paragraphs that will help them move seamlessly to chapter books and higher leveled text they will encounter in 2nd and 3rd grade.
- I have done the work in creating this 1,000 page unit so that you are freed up to be the very best and most prepared teacher possible!
Reading Format Choices
All reading passages are available in 3 formats
1. Shared reading (no fluency numbers)
2. Weekly fluency passage
- Classroom Use (with fluency numbers but no parent signature)
- Homework Option 1 (nightly parent signature)
- Homework Option 2 (nightly timed data)
3. Easier reading with comprehension questions on the bottom
Fall fluency has VERY easy reading with 1 sentence per line and picture clues.
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✏️ The Writing Units
My students never complain about writing because they have a mind full of ideas after reading these quality passages. They simply cannot wait to share what they have learned. Each unit will take your students from
- Pre-writing with graphic organizers
- Quick write
- Delightful lined pages with made to match graphics!
✏️ Listen to what Susan had to say about the writing units :
On August 21, 2016, Suzan Sudlow (TpT Seller) said:
NEVER have I had such a comprehensive unit that is absolutely perfect for ALL my kiddos. The graphic organizers that support the writing....top notch. My kids were writing paragraphs with opening and closing sentences WEEK 1. I send home the homework for the reading practice, I was dumbfounded when my ESL kids...still in reading behaviors....touched and read the pieces...top to bottom! Worth EVERY penny.
✏️ Like Susan said, graphic organizers and my unique "Quick Write" pages help ensure that first graders are successful in getting what's on their mind onto the paper all the while using proper grammar and mechanics. You won't believe how easy writing becomes when kids use the "Quick Write" page and how easy it is for you to grade and give fast feedback!
Social Studies, Science, SEL and Engagement
In about 5 minutes a day, I fit in fluency instruction, reading practice, and Science or Social Studies.
- The topics covered in these units were carefully chosen to be aligned with the "Heroes and Holidays" themes children love.
- Seasonal Science reading is also included
- September has a unit on SEL emotions
- April and May feature some SEL Reader's Theater that connects school and home life.
Assessment and Data Collection
Dec-June you will also have an optional quiz to test students' reading comprehension.
- This will give you the data you need for grades and parent communication.
- The quizzes are designed in true Common Core format:
- multiple correct answers
- sequencing
- free response
- labeling
- matching
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✂️ Art and Engagement
The art is my key to student buy-in and engagement.
- My students love the high interest passages, but when they see the art they go bonkers with anticipation and sustained effort.
- I do art on Wed to keep the momentum for the week going.
- They write on Thursday and Friday. So they are motivated to get their writing up on the board with their art.
Personal Testimony
I am a 1st grade teacher who believes in and does guided reading. I noticed that as my class size climbed to 32 students, it became much harder to read with every child every day. Enter daily fluency practice. The year I went from 20 students to 32, I created these passages to meet the needs of my readers. With 12 more students in my room and adding in these passages as shared reading / fluency, I had the most growth and reading that I have ever seen in my 17 years of teaching.
- The data proved that these passages practiced daily was what a busy teacher needs.
- That's why I am offering this unit to you.
- That is why I travel all over the United States speaking at K-1 teaching conferences about fluency and comprehension.
- I am letting you in on my time-tested secrets with a bonus unit called Comprehension and Fluency 101. It's a TpT top seller and gives you weekly guide for how I do fluency in my classroom. You will get step-by-step implementation guides, my weekly lesson plan, posters, and anchor charts. You will also get 4 highly engaging games and activities that will make daily re-reading fun! Punctuation Poppers and Crazy Professor are the favored games BY FAR!
Individual Table of Contents:
All units listed below follow this format:
1. Easy Reading Passage
2. A longer passage with and without numbers for homework, fluency, or challenge
2. An art unit
3. Bulletin board lettering to be displayed with the student art work and writing
4. Coordinating writing unit containing
- graphic organizer to process thinking
- A "quick write" organizer with a theme-unique topic sentence and sense of closure
- various forms of lined paper for publishing
Monthly Themes Scope and Sequence:
August:
- A Cat Can (phonics focus short a)
- We Go to Bed (phonics focus short e)
- It is Hot (Phonics focus short o)
- Tim Needs a Hug / Reimagined as SEL Emotions (Short u /i focus)
September:
- We Love to Eat (focus on color words / adjectives)
- Apple Tree Poem
- Making Applesauce (opinion and informational writing choices)
- Johnny Appleseed
October
- In School We Have / School supplies
- Spiders
- Christopher Columbus
- Consider not using Columbus unless required by school district. If you must use a FREE Indigenous People's Day Passage has been added.
- Also a FREE Skeletons unit has been included to replace this unit.
- Pumpkins Grow
- Skeletons
November:
- I Can Tell That it is Fall Poem
- Long Ago and Now
- Time to be Thankful (Thankful heart- not limited to the American Thanksgiving)
- Making No-Bake Pumpkin Pie
December
- Is a Reindeer a Mammal?
- Train Ride-Polar Express
- How To Make Cocoa
January
- Why Do They Hibernate?
- The Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
- The Life of Rosa Parks
- What is Ground Hog Day?
February
- What is Chinese New Year / Lunar New Year is the more inclusive name and is included in this unit.
- I Know How to Care For My Teeth
- The Life of George Washington
- The Life of Abe Lincoln
- Bonus Activity Comparing Lincoln and Washington Opinion Writing Piece
March
- “March Comes In Like a Lion and Out Like a Lamb”
- Solid, Liquid, Gas Matter Unit
- Rainbows, Gold, and Leprechauns
- Making Shamrock Shakes
April Fluency
- Proud as a Peacock (SEL Reader's Theater)
- Planet Protectors / Earth Day
- How Tweet it Is / Bird Nests
- Seed, Sprout, Flower
- Little Ladybugs
May Fluency
- Busy Bees
- Little Cupcakes
- How Tweet It Is
- Memorial Day/ Remembrance Day
June CCSS "How To" Text Unit
- How to Make Lemonade
- How to Make S'mores
- How to Make Play Dough
- How to Make Dirt in a Cup
Intervention:
Use unneeded August passages
Plus two more included in the intervention packet
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Spring Bundled Units- 12 weeks
Comprehension 101- Ten Proven Strategies to Teach Reading Comprehension and Fluency
How I Use these units:
- My students read the passage with me every morning for 2 minutes.
- They also read them with buddies in class, and as homework.
- As time provides we use the reading games included in this unit (comprehension and fluency 101)
- The games can be used with any and all of the passages
- Wed we brainstorm and do the art
- Thursday we write
- Friday those who need to finish writing do so.
This MEGA Bundle Contains
- 49 Real-world, Science or Social Studies Reading Passages
- 49 Quick Writes
- 49 Writing Tasks (informational, opinion, and narrative)
- 28 Quizzes Dec-June
- 46 Coordinating Art Projects
- 46 Bulletin board lettering phrases to match the art
- Intervention Packet to help your low first and low second graders
- Comprehension 101* with proven strategies to teach reading
Comprehension 101 is a top selling TpT item:
- It was featured in the newsletter highlighting reading strategies.
- Comprehension 101 has sold nearly 2,000 copies.
- It's the real deal, and will help you get results, raise test scores, and includes games and strategies to make reading delightful for you and your students!
- This is included in the Mega Bundle
