Do you want engaging January reading fluency passages? Try these daily reading activities and winter & New Years reading comprehension passages and questions for your winter & January morning work.
⭐️Use these no-prep, daily kindergarten and 1st grade reading passages and worksheets with fun, seasonal, nonfiction and fiction stories to build literacy skills and fluency through repeated reading and short answer questions.
⭐These are great for small group instruction, homework, and morning work. These activities have a short reading passage and 3 follow-up sections to complete.
⭐This resource provides reading practice to help build comprehension skills. All 20 of the mats cover a variety of seasonal topics. There are fiction and non-fiction reading passages included.
✅3 RESOURCES IN 1:
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PDF or PPT - Just open the PDF or PPT file and print!
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GOOGLE SLIDES - Assign each reading comprehension passage in Google Slides, including interactive moving pieces and text boxes to fill in.
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SEESAW - Add an activity to Seesaw with the included images!
⭐Comprehension Mats are great for small group instruction, homework, and morning work. These printable activities have a short reading passage and three follow-up sections to complete.
✏️Components of Comprehension Mats:
- Students must read the passage 3 times and color a seasonal shape after each read. They will build fluency through repeated reading.
- They draw or write about the story or a connection they make.
- They answer and complete different questions.
This resource provides a lot of reading practice each month to help build comprehension skills and fluency.
✏️The skills covered in Comprehension Mats:
- Reading for information
- Locating text evidence
- Locating, highlighting, and recording short vowels
- Locating, highlighting, and recording sight words
- Locating, highlighting, and recording verbs, nouns, and adjectives
- Answering questions in complete sentences
- Making connections
- Sequencing story events
Topics:
- Snow Day
- Building a Snowman
- Snowflakes
- Drinking Hot Chocolate
- Polar Bears
- Warm Clothes
- Penguins
- Ice skating
- Sledding
- Getting a Cold
- Frozen
- A New Year
- Animals in Winter
- Hockey
- Snowball Fun
- Healthy Food
- Draw a Picture
- Changing Weather
- Write a Story
- Hide and Seek
⭐️The activities align with the Common Core standards for first grade. This is perfect for first grade but could also be used for a challenge in Kindergarten and for extra practice/as a review for second grade.
✅Check out the preview for a closer look at what this resource provides!
⭐️Additional pages are provided for Canadian users, including Canadian spelling and content where applicable.
✏️6 ways to use Comprehension Mats in your classroom!
- Print, laminate, and use with whiteboard markers.
- Shrink and print and use in interactive notebooks.
- Copy back-to-back with the cover page to create a booklet.
- Copy and put into a folder. Use it for morning work or fast finishers.
- Use with Seesaw by uploading the image files included in this resource and assigning it to your class (instructions provided).
- Use with your class in Google Classroom (instructions provided).
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TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID...
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Amy G. says, "This has been the perfect addition to my Language Arts block. It has stretched my students to look for the answers in the paragraph."
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Michelle R. says, "This resource is perfect for my struggling readers. They feel confident being able to read the text independently & answer the question with minimal support. I am able to utilize this during intervention & for differentiated homework assignments."
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Brendon G. says, "Great resource to build students' fluency with themed passages! I love how it also included a section for students to make connections and also respond to comprehension questions."
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