With these Short Stories for Boosting Reading Skills, students will practice…
- …sequencing events from a story.
- …answering true or false, fill-in-the-blank, and multiple-choice questions.
- …identifying main idea statements.
- …explaining events and ideas of a text.
- …referring to specific information from a text.
- …determining a central idea of a text.
Designed for students needing extra reading support or additional practice, this resource is user-friendly. Assign a page at a time, and students can read and answer questions directly from the passage. Answer keys are provided for easy review. Whether as supplementary material, homework, bell-ringer activities, time-fillers, sub-plans, or whole-class instruction, this resource offers versatility that students find engaging!
Each story comes with a short extension activity, promoting productive use of the reading material. From creating posters and brochures to fiction and journal writing, these activities cater to diverse learning preferences. Ideal for multi-level classrooms, the extension tasks enhance the overall learning experience!
With detailed resource notes providing teaching ideas, there’s no need for preparation. Just print the stories and hand them to your learners. This allows you to focus on guiding their reading journey instead of getting bogged down in preparation.
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Choose from five different ways to use these short stories, catering to various classroom dynamics:
- on 10 individual pages with comprehension questions attached
- on 10 tasks cards, where you can get students reading in stations.
- via a pre-keyed PowerPoint presentation where the stories can be displayed to larger groups with answers appearing with the click of a button
- using the 10 interdependent handouts for cooperative learning strategies
- online with Google Slides
Each short story has between 150-200 words, and delves into different themes, including personhood, perseverance, morality, conflict resolution, ethics, viruses & contagions, coping with failure, teamwork, pollution, rules and responsibility, and resilience.
Take advantage of the included PowerPoint Presentation instructional tool, allowing you to project stories onto whiteboards or smartboards. Engage with the class, highlight key points, and reveal answers with a single click.
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This package includes a PDF file that can be opened using your preferred PDF reader. It comes with detailed resource notes for the teacher that explain how to use each of the features. It also comes with a PowerPoint presentation that requires access to Microsoft PowerPoint.
The PowerPoint gives you the ability to project each of the short stories in front of the class. Though these are designed for use by any teacher, a basic level of PowerPoint is always helpful when putting these resources to use. It is not recommended to alter the slides or reconfigure the animations.
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Terms of Use:
This resource was created by Landon S. Seigler of ESL Lifeline, all rights are reserved. The original purchaser is permitted to use it for a single class only. Teachers have the authorization to share this product with their students (and parents) through email, Google Classroom, or the Internet, as long as the site is password protected. Distribution to your own students is allowed, but uploading it to the Internet for public access and download is not permitted.
**If you wish to use this resource for multiple classrooms or share it with fellow educators, please purchase additional licenses.Your adherence to these usage terms is greatly appreciated.
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