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This packet contains 22 printables focused around the key reading skills and strategies students need to successfully decode and comprehend their reading. These sheets cover both non-fiction and fictional text. Topics covered include: Predicting Connections Main Idea & Supporting Details Facts & Opinions Drawing Conclusions & Inferences Character Analysis Vocabulary Development & Context Clues Non-fiction Text Features Summarizing Evaluating Creating

Great for guided reading mini-lessons, Daily 5, independent reading, or reading stations!

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Directions: Good readers make predictions to help them understand and engage with their reading. Before you read today use what you already know about the text to help you make a prediction of what the text is about. Record three reasons you believe that.

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Directions: Good readers use text features to make predictions about what they read. Preview your reading, and circle all the text features you notice.

title sub-title/sub-heading bold words italics highlighted words

graphs timelines glossary diagrams table of contents

index pictures tables charts caption

Pick one specific text feature (one sub-title, caption, etc). Write what page you found it on and what it tells you about the topic.

My text feature was

on page ______.

It tells me

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Directions: The main idea is the most important thing. Good readers look for main ideas to help them understand the text. Find the main idea of a paragraph or section of your text. Add 3 supporting details that prove your main idea to the branches.

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' Directions: Good readers try to put themselves into their characters shoes. As you read, imagine what type of shoes your main character might wear. What color would they be? Would they be old or new? High heels, sandals, sneakers? There are so many choices! Draw an illustration of your characters shoes and write about what story details support your conclusion.

The main character in my story would wear these shoes because

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Directions: Nearly all fiction stories have some things in common. They have characters, a setting, a problem, and a solution. Use the map below to outline the story or chapter you read today.

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