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Engaging Literacy Ideas & Activities

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Free Text Feature Passage PDF

Text features worksheet PDF including a nonfiction passage and text features graphic organizer! Students will read the sections of the Martin Luther King passage and label each text feature.

Download the Free Text Feature Passage


Reading, Writing, & Grammar (ELA)

Looking to spice up your literacy block? Students in grades K-5 are exposed to literature and informational texts in order to become strong readers. ELA instruction should be purposeful, yet fun for students. Incorporating games, movement, and hands-on strategies to your literacy instruction can make reading exciting for your young learners! Here are some of my favorite engaging ELA ideas & activities to review reading, writing and grammar standards.

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