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Common Lit - Passages & Literacy Resources (Target skill lessons and more).

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CommonLit | Free Online Reading Passages and Literacy Resources

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CommonLit is a comprehensive literacy program with thousands of reading lessons, full-year ELA curriculum, benchmark assessments, and standards-based data for teachers.

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Search- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and suggested pairings will show up. I listed them below.

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Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan, and Peter discover the land of Narnia, where they join lion Aslan to fulfill an old prophecy and vanquish the evil White Witch.

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CommonLit | Book Pairings - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript. Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your web browser. Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan, and Peter discover the land of Narnia, where they join lion Aslan to fulfill an old prophecy and vanquish the evil White Witch.

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Comprehension practice with 2 part questions (A & B)

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Comprehension practice with 2 part questions (A & B)

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Week 5 Daily Practice - How the Snowman Felt (Poetry)

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Week 5 Daily Practice - How the Snowman Felt (Poetry)

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Week 4 Daily Practice - Susan B. Anthony

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Week 4 Daily Practice - Susan B. Anthony

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Week 3 Daily Practice - The Case of the Parking Lot Vandal

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Week 3 Daily Practice - The Case of the Parking Lot Vandal

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Week 2 Daily Practice - A Friend That Stinks

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Week 2 Daily Practice - A Friend That Stinks

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Week 1 Daily Practice - From Ida B... And Her Plans

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Week 1 Daily Practice - From Ida B... And Her Plans

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Spiral review- Same passage all week, 2-3 questions per day to review standards and test-taking strategies.

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1 text for the week/ 2 questions daily

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Thank you Jackie Clutts for sharing!

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Wonderstruck Comprehension & Text Evidence 

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Wonderstruck Comprehension & Text Evidence 

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Weekly Check Section 2 Narnia- The Case Of the Parking Lot Vandal

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Weekly Check Section 1 Narnia - Special Snow Dog

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The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Unit Prep

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The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Unit Prep

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Section 7 - Lessons 22-24

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Section 6 - Lessons 18-21

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Title: Weekly Check Section 6 LZ Shutting Out the Sky - The Rainbow Pilgrims

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Section 6 - Lessons 18-21

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Both Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolks - Lesson 20

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Both Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolks - Lesson 20

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Section 6 - Lessons 18-21

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Both Community and Garden Grow in Seedfolks Audio

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Section 6 - Lesson 20

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April showers bring May flowers, and in this case they bring us a selection from the garden for NPR's Backseat Book Club. Each month we ask young people to read a book along with us, and for this month, our pick is Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman.

Seedfolks takes us to the heart of the city, specifically the city of Cleveland, and a neighborhood that has seen better days. It's filled with people - mostly immigrants - who live in close proximity but barely share more than an occasional "hello." They all stay in apartments surrounding a vacant lot that, in the course of this story, is transformed from a smelly junkyard into a lush community garden.

That garden in Seedfolks is like a big green magnet. It pulls in immigrants who yearn for vegetables they can't find at local markets. It beckons the wounded who find a reason to live as they watch life sprout from little seeds. And it calls out to the elderly who find memories in the soil.

Author Paul Fleischman tells NPR's Michele Norris that he loved the idea of a garden that would help a fractured community grow toward each other, the way a potted plant reaches for the sun. Ugly as it may be at the beginning, that empty lot is the beating heart of his book.

"It's not a place that anybody had ever imagined a community garden," Fleischman says. "And indeed, the founder - a little girl named Kim - has no such plans herself. She just plants some lima bean seeds there in an attempt to connect with the father she never knew."

Each chapter of Seedfolks is named for a different character and told from his or her point of view. As their garden plots grow, their hearts grow bigger, and their world view expands. There are still hard times in this rough little neighborhood, but each eggplant and tomato is a little victory worthy of a shared celebration.

The entire sixth grade of Hardy Middle School - located here in Washington, D.C. - read the book, and the students had several questions for Fleischman. Backseat Book Clubber Kyra Bendal, 11, wanted to know whether any of the characters in Seedfolks were based on real-life people.

"They are," says Fleischman. "I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way. Usually characters are changed, transformed, turned inside out. ... Look at Kim. She's a little girl from Vietnam. She's lost her father. I would seem to have nothing in common with her. But my own mother had died a few years before Seedfolks. A desire to make a connection with that person who has passed away is universal, and it came out in that story. I have connections like that with many of the characters."

The title Seedfolks does not simply refer to the work in the garden. It reflects a community bond. In fact, Fleischman says, the word "seedfolks" came to him before he started to write this book.

"The few words of a title are the hardest words for any author to come up with," he says. "My father used to offer my sisters and me $5 if we could come up with a title when he was stumped. And $5 back then was worth about $10,000 now. ... So if you have a great title, as crazy as it sounds, it's almost worth writing a book just to use it. It's like building a house because you have a lovely doorknob. But I had the word 'seedfolks.' I'd come across it in the course of researching another book. It's an old term for ancestors."

Fleischman's father, Sid, was, like his son, an award-winning author of children's books. He often read chunks of his latest projects to the family. Fleischman says there was no pressure to follow in his father's footsteps. But, he adds, his real education took place not at school but at home, as he absorbed the craft of writing from his father.

"We also had a hand printing press in the house," he says. "So I learned the whole visual side of language, setting type. I'm a very careful, slow writer, and I think a lot of that comes from the care required to be a hand-printer, where if something isn't spaced out enough, you take little slivers of brass or copper and put them between each letter."

The family had a printing press because Sid Fleischman was working on a book about a traveling printer, and parts of the book were absorbed into the household. "That's how we came to have chickens, as well - from an earlier book," Fleischman says.

But that hands-on approach didn't exactly work with Seedfolks. "Let it be known," says Fleischman, "I'm a terrible gardener. I'm an over-waterer." Fleischman adds that he's content going to the library and researching gardening. "Although doing it is good - that's how we ended up with the printing press and the chickens. There are things you learn from doing it that you're never going to learn from a book."

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Both Community And Garden Grow In 'Seedfolks'

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April showers bring May flowers, and in this case they bring us a selection from the garden for NPR's Backseat Book Club. Each month we ask young people to read a book along with us, and for this month, our pick is Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman.

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Title: Weekly Check Section 5 LZ Shutting Out the Sky - Wombat Burrows/ How Hiram Spent His Shrimp Money

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Immigration in the United States Video- Job focus at mark 2:55 - Lesson 14 & 15

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Immigration in the United States Video- Job focus at mark 2:55 - Lesson 14 & 15

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Section 5 - Lessons 14-17

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The Arrival Book Video with music (Lesson 16 & 17)

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The Arrival Book Video with music (Lesson 16 & 17)

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Section 5 - Lessons 14-17

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Section 5 - Lessons 14-17

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Title: Weekly Check Section 4 LZ Shutting Out the Sky - Mangroves, Tree With Knees/ The Land Down Under

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Section 4- Lessons 11-13

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Section 4 - Lesson 11

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Section 3 -Lessons 7-10

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Section 3 - Lessons 7-10

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Section 3 - Lessons 7 -10

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Title: Weekly Check Section 3 LZ Shutting Out the Sky - "The Snowbird's Song" & "Grand Canyon"

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Section 3 - Lessons 7-10

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Title: Weekly Check Section 2 LZ Shutting Out the Sky - The Rights of People

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Lesson 6 "Coming to the Golden Land" Summary  WKS

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Lesson 6 "Coming to the Golden Land" Summary  WKS

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Section 2: Lessons 4-6

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Section 2: Lessons 4-6

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Section 2: Lessons 4-6

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Section 2: Lessons 4-6

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Section 2 - Lessons 4-6

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Title: Weekly check Section 1 LZ Shutting Out the Sky - Growing Up at a Light House

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Immigrants at Ellis Island History Video

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Immigrants at Ellis Island History Video

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Section 1: Lessons 1-3

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Section 1: Lessons 1-3

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Excerpt from Of Thee We Sing: Immigrants and American History - Lesson 1

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Excerpt from Of Thee We Sing: Immigrants and American History - Lesson 1

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Section 1 : Lessons 1-3

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Section 1 - Lessons 1-3

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Section 5- Lessons 25-26

Title: Weekly Check Section 5 NF LZ Wonderstruck - Improving Robots

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Mastery Connect Section 5 Lit. Assessment

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Mastery Connect Section 5 Lit. Assessment

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Section 5 - Lessons 25-26

Title: Weekly Check Section 5 Lit LZ Wonderstruck - Danny's Piano

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Section 4 - Lessons 20-24

Title: Weekly Check Section 4 LZ Wonderstruck - A New Island Home

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Explain how series of scenes provide overall structure.

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Explain how series of scenes provide overall structure.

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Section 4 - Lessons 20-24

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Section 4 - Lessons 20-24

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Lesson 20 - Analyzing Characters and Events for Theme PDF

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Lesson 20 - Analyzing Characters and Events for Theme PDF

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Section 4 - Lessons 20-24

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Section 1-3 Standards Check Benchmark Assessment on Mastery Connect

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Section 1-3 Standards Check Benchmark Assessment on Mastery Connect

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Title: Weekly Check Sections 1-3 Review LZ Wonderstruck - A Wonderful Chef/Eleanor Rosevelt

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Section 3 Part 2 Standard Check on Mastery Connect

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Section 3 Part 2 Standard Check on Mastery Connect

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Title: Weekly Check Section 3 Part 2 LZ Wonderstruck - The Golden Fish

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Section 3 Part 1 Standard Check on Mastery Connect

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Title: Weekly Check Section 3 Part 1 LZ - Wonderstruck - Shannon Lucid: Nasa Chief Scientist

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Section 3 - Lessons 13-16

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Section 3 - Lessons 13-16

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Section 3 - Lessons 13-16

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Section 2 Standard Check on Mastery Connect

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Section 2 Standard Check on Mastery Connect

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Title: Weekly Check Section 2 LZ Wonderstruck - My Uncle's Dog

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Section 2 - Lessons 9 - 12

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Section 2 - Lessons 9-12