For Upper Grades

Upper Grades Basic reading Skills

Recommended Sequence & Resources
Below is a recommended sequence of skills that worked for me. The level of instruction will greatly depend upon your students’ proficiency with the skills before arriving in
your classroom. While some concepts like main idea & sequencing may take a week of instruction to master, others like fact & opinion will take less instruction.

Skill Blog Post resources

Fact and Opinion Tell Me a Story Tuesday (Fact and Opinion) Fact & Opinion Task Cards

Generating Cause & Effect

Cause and Effect Teaching Cause & Effect in Upper Elementary
Cause & Effect Stories

Compare and Contrast Teaching Children to Compare & Contrast Compare & Contrast Task Cards

Sequencing Task Cards

Sequencing Using Pictures to Teach Reading Skills Sequencing Reading Project
Holiday Sequencing Cards
Main Idea & Pictures
Main Idea A Quick and Easy Main Idea Activity
Fiction Main Idea
Inference Task Cards
Inference Tell Me a Story Tuesday (Inference) Inference Reading Project
Inference Riddles
©TEACHING WITH A MOUNTAIN VIEW

Author’s Purpose COMING SOON! Author’s Purpose Task Cards

Teaching Point of View

Point of View Using Games with Task Cards
Point of View Task Cards

Restating the Question* Restating the Question: The How and the Why Restating the Question Task Cards
 Upper Grades Comprehension Skills
Recommended Sequence & Resources
Below is a recommended sequence of skills that worked for me. PLEASE NOTE: These skills were taught in conjunction with or assume proficiency with basic reading concepts,
including those listed in my Upper Grades Basic Reading Skills recommendations. For my purposes, I explicitly teach all of these skill before beginning this sequence.

Skill Blog Post resources

Literal Vs. Inferential Paragraphs Task Cards
Literal Vs. Inferential Questions Teaching Literal Vs. Inferential
Literal Vs. Inferential Picture Task Cards
Story Elements Review Task Cards
The Great Big Collection of Ideas for Teaching Story
Story Elements Half Page Differentiated Task Cards
Story Elements Elements
Story Elements & Main Idea
Story Elements Reading Response Task Cards
Story Elements Inference Task Cards
Understanding Key Details Fiction
Understanding Key Details Answering Comprehension Questions
Understanding Key Details Informational
Fiction Comprehension Task Cards
Fiction & Informational Text Comprehension Fiction Comprehension Skills
Informational Text Comprehension Task Cards

Character Development Teaching Character Development, Conflict, and Traits Character Study Task Card Bundle

Theme Vs. Main Idea Teaching Theme Vs. Main Idea Theme Vs. Main Idea Task Cards

Activities for Teaching Informational Text Structure Informational Text Structures Task Cards
Informational Text Structures Nonfiction Text Features Cumulative Project Informational Text Reading Response Task Cards

Comparing Texts In The Same Genre Comparing Texts: Beyond the Basics Comparing Texts in the Same Genre Task Cards
©TEACHING WITH A MOUNTAIN VIEW

Comparing Texts On The Same Topic Using Paired Passages to Compare Texts Comparing Texts on the Same Topic Task Cards

Analyzing Multiple Accounts Analyzing Firsthand & Secondhand Accounts Analyzing First and Secondhand Accounts Task Cards

Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Texts

Summarize, Paraphrase, and Quote* Teaching Students to write Nonfiction Summaries Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quoting Task Cards
Summaries Made Simple