Ms.

Martinez

READING
Activities | Centers | Books | Sight Words | Vocabulary
Table of Contents
Class Books
Character Traits
Elements of a story
Sequencing/Retelling
Problem and Solution
Making Connections
Point of View/Perspective
Theme
Main Idea
Inferences
Cause/Effect
Decoding Strategies
Phonics Dance
Reading with Prosody
Book Reports

Hola!
Hello!
My name is Delia Martinez. I am a teacher in training
and LOVE collecting ideas for my future class.
Throughout youll find lots of resources and ideas Ive
collected from teacher blogs. Ive placed them in
categories and update it regularly. Feel free to explore
some of these reading ideas for your next lesson!
Hasta Luego!

Listening Center
Readers Theatre

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Class Books
Pete the Cat: Rocking
in My School Shoes.
Create a book with
everyones shoes I love
my school shoesguess
who? with a lift up tab.

Create and Enjoy!

Read a book that has students

thinking of what they want to

be when they grow up. For
example in Lillys Purple Plastic
Purse she wants to be a
teacher. Create a What do you
want to be when you grow up
book.

Click here for the song

and interactive story!

Dont Let the

Pigeon Drive the
Bus create a class
book with a fill in
the blank option.

Math + Reading: Ten Black

Dots

ABC Book: Who Let the Letters Out? Include students names
that begin with that letter or items that start with that letter.
Extra Ideas
*Preposition book: Have students be between, above, under, an item.
*Homophones: Create a picture & sentence for the pair of words.
*Environmental Print: Class favorite cereal, restaurant, etc

*IDEA: Raffle the class books at

the end of the year for children to
keep :)

*ABC: Have students make the letters with their bodies and assign a
letter drawing to each child.
*Other: Books on adverbs (Mary dances swiftly), verbs, & adjectives.
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Character Traits

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Create an anchor chart with examples of positive

& negative character traits. Also create examples
of speech bubbles of what these traits sound like.
Students write examples of a
Characters traits using quotes/
examples from the book.

Create a book or picture collage of

character traits using the childrens
emotions. Great visual for ELLs!

Character Report Card: Students fill

out grades for a character based on
traits and with evidence for their
answer from the text. Free copy
here. Kindergarten copy here.

Show Students who to Prove a

character trait with evidence
from the book.

Additional Resources:
List of character traits
Flat vs. round characters

*Tip: Model it together first with a

dierent story :)
Create character traits for all characters in the
story!

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Make sure to explain the dierence

between looks and traits. Plus there
is also a dierence between
Emotions and Traits. These are
great anchor charts to do with kids!

Resources:
Free Copy of Words That
Describe Me WS found here.
For this, provide them with a list
of traits to choose from.
What Does the Text Say WS

Assessment: Students fill out

their own character traits about
themselves
They can also create a poster
with two categories Inside and
Outside.
Or create a list of traits with
their head cut out :)
Text Detective: Have students prove
how they know the character traits.

Elements of a Story

Follow the Yellow Brick Road

retelling parts of a story. A
kinesthetic approach to
learning. Assessment piece here.

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Create a Story Map with students. One

way can be for them to guess the pictures
under the sticky notes or they can provide
input by drawing/writing their answers on
sticky notes to paste to the chart.
Resources:
Parts of a story video. Includes

a repetitive melody with

examples of what is a character,
setting, and the three parts of a
story.
Upper Elementary video
(Flocabulary).
Flip book on parts of a story.
Free story map worksheet

Kinesthetic Activity: Jump and identify

the parts and order of a story.

Have students create a story map

for a story.

Sequencing/Retelling

Use a re-telling rope

Students use the i-Pad to retell a story

Great idea for fairy tales! Using

white butcher paper, the teacher
wrote "Once up a time" at the
beginning of the sheet, and "The
end" at the end. Kids drew and
wrote a story in between

Characters on Popsicle sticks

Slide a bead to retell a story:
Red- Ready to hear a retelling of
the story? The characters in the
story are

Sequence of events on a hanger

Orange- On to where this story

took place
Yellow- You have to hear the
problem in the story
Green- Get ready for a few more
details
Blue- Better start bringing it to a
close and telling you how the problem
was solved
Purple- Picking my favorite part is
easy, it was when

Activity: Relate the assessment to the

students. Have them use transitional
words to put their day in order
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Activity: Tell the sequence of events that led

up to this photo.

Create a flip book with these four

sequential words.

Use a mitten with the

characters, setting,
problem, etc and have
students retell using
each finger

Problem & Solution

Great Anchor chart for explaining problem

and solution.
Have students give you the problem/
solution in a story like the pink poster on
the right
List of books found here.

Resources:
Problem and Solution
worksheet.
Problem Detectives: Give each child an
envelope and put a problem along with a
problem/solution worksheet. Have each child
supply a solution. Very easy to dierentiate ;) PLUS
the link provides access to the lesson & certificates
for each child on solving the problem!

Create an anchor chart with kids and ask for

the solutions to problems. Example

Read the story Pout Pout Fish

to students and have them create
the problem/solution on an index
card.
ART +Writing: have students
explain how they drew the fish as
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Making Connections

Great Anchor Charts!

Book Links Here
Graphing + Reading:

Resources:
My Connections WS
TONS of connections sheets here

Have the students write down a text

connections that they make during
reading time on a slip of construction
paper, share, and then categorize them
into the three text connections. Once
categorized, connect them to create
paper chains:)

Make Text to Self connections using the book:

Chicks and Salsa
Link on website here.
Worksheet found here.

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Point of View/Perspective

Flip book with examples

POV Roll and Color WS.
Plus a free activity where you read two
stories to students and they identify the
POV for each one.

What did the character see?

Draw the scene in the
center of the eye
Point of view lesson: Hotel
Transylvania Trailer Video Link.

Resources:
POV Flocabulary video

POV from each crayon!

TONS of POV pictures

Use these books to read about a

characters POV

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Whos bad the pig or the

wolf?
Read this story to get a
new perspective on a
familiar twist!

Using the True Story of the Three

Little Pigs to teach about POV and
each the wolf s perspective.
Tally up whos on the pigs side and the
wolf s side. Then read this story and
ask the poll again. Discuss why their
answers changed.

POV and Perspective using Toy Story!

Discuss the dierent perspectives that each of
the main characters in the clip had. Have
students write the POV from each characters
perspective & dierentiate some students by
giving them this WS where they identify each

Math: Plus free lesson on Place Value!

POV changes your beliefs WS

POV from each persons perspective

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Theme

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Themes with Disney movies

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Main Idea
Main Idea/
Details Give
each group a
bag to figure
out what their
main idea
would be (ex:
baking a cake)

Lesson Here

Free lesson here

Full Anchor Chart Here

Resources:
Main Idea Mystery WS
Theme Vs Main Idea Sorting
Graphic Organizer
Mystery Bag WS

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Students identify the main idea in a group of

sentences that are mixed up inside an envelope!
For a quick assessment, students record the
main idea on a separate sheet of paper.

Students took out the pictures identified the topic,

chose three details (pictures), and a possible main
idea for the bag. Once students completed all ten
bags they chose one bag to use to write a paragraph
using the main idea and details from the bag. LINK

Students identified the topic, details, and possible

main ideas.
Topic: Science lab/experiment
Details: safety goggles, microscope, notebook,
scientist, & chemical
Main Ideas: Safety in the Lab, How to conduct a
Science experiment, etc

Exit Ticket Idea: Guess the main idea and paste on

sticky note
In groups: Guess the main idea. Full lesson here

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