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• July 3, 2023
• Rachael Hull

Hi teachers, we’ve got a great reading freebie for you today. It’s a simple tool designed to elevate your beginning reader’s journey. You can download a free set of printable reading bookmarks at the end of this article! But why are these so useful? Strong reading comprehension is not just about understanding the words on a page. It’s about decoding context, making inferences, understanding sequences, recognizing cause and effect relationships, and being able to summarize and synthesize information. These foundational skills allow your students to engage meaningfully with any text, fostering a deeper love for reading and enabling them to apply these strategies in the books they are reading. 

Student Struggles With Reading Comprehension

Our little bookworms are brand new students learning about reading strategies for the first time. As they begin to see new words on paper, they can trip over the meaning of the text like figuring out the main message, guessing what happens next, or even understanding how characters are connected. This can make the thrill of reading on their own a bit tricky, turning a story into a tricky puzzle. These roadblocks can be real obstacles in their reading journey as they become independent readers who can enjoy a book with confidence.

Helpful Reading Bookmarks To Boost Text Meaning

So, what’s our secret weapon for your students to enjoy reading comprehension? Printable reading bookmarks! These aren’t your run-of-the-mill bookmarks you might be picturing. They’re more like handy little helpers for our young readers when they’re diving into a book all on their own.

How Many Reading Bookmarks Are In This Set?

These bookmarks are loaded with all kinds of reading comprehension prompts and guides. Here are the reading strategies included in the reading bookmarks: 

• Making Connections
• Cause And Effect
• Author’s Purpose
• Inferencing
• Drawing Conclusions
• Determining Importance
• Summarizing
• Making Predictions
• Compare And Contrast
• Asking Questions
• Story Elements
• Visualization
• Character Traits
• Context Clues
• Point Of View

Quite the package, huh?

Benefits of Reading Comprehension Bookmarks

The really cool thing about these reading bookmarks? They’re super versatile. They do more than just save the page where the kiddos stopped reading. They keep them on their toes, totally involved in their reading adventure, helping them to really get what the story’s about. So, instead of just passively flipping pages, they’re actively digging into the meaning of the text. Pretty neat, right?

How To Use The Reading Bookmarks

And guess what? They’re a piece of cake to use! You can pop them into library books when they’re headed home, add them to your reading centers, or even use them like pocket-sized anchor charts. They’re always there, reinforcing those reading strategies and making themselves the perfect reading buddy.

So, whenever students are stuck, they glance at the bookmark for a quick reminder of the strategy and then dive back into their current book to give it a whirl.

And, here’s a little insider secret for my fellow teachers – try printing these bookmarks on astrobright paper. It’s a super easy way to add a splash of color to your reading lessons. Plus, the kids love it! If you need to restock on your colorful paper, here’s an amazon link for a new package of astrobright paper. It’s an affiliate link, so you can make a purchase to support us at no extra cost to you.

Who Can Use These Printable Reading Bookmarks?

These bookmarks are a perfect fit for our little friends from kindergarten up to 2nd grade. But don’t think that’s where it ends! If you’ve got older kids who could use a little extra help brushing up on these basic skills, you can definitely use the bookmarks to suit their needs.

What Teachers Like You Think Of The Free Reading Bookmarks

Parents, teachers, and students alike have found great success with these bookmarks.   

“Total game-changers! Since I started handing them out, my first graders have really taken off with their reading. They love having their own little helper right there in their books. And you know what’s really awesome? Seeing them actually use the strategies on the bookmarks, and then sharing their discoveries with the class. I’m telling you, these bookmarks have sparked some fantastic discussions.”

“I’ve been teaching second grade for nearly a decade, and I’ve got to say, these reading comprehension bookmarks are one of the best tools I’ve ever come across. The students don’t just like them, they LOVE them. They bring an element of fun to independent reading time and have really helped my students get more out of their books. And the fact that they’re printable and free? That’s the cherry on top. I can’t recommend these enough!”

Why You Will Love The Reading Bookmarks

You know what teachers are raving about? These bookmarks! They’re like having an extra set of hands helping to reinforce all those reading comprehension lessons. And get this, they’re a hit with parents too. When kids use these bookmarks with their take-home reading, it’s like sending a mini-lesson home, helping parents get involved in their child’s reading journey. Win-win, right?

Where Can I Get The Printable Reading Bookmarks?

So, you’re probably thinking, “Where do I get my hands on these awesome bookmarks?” Well, guess what? You can snag them for free, over at LiteracyStations.com ! Yep, you heard it right – no hidden costs, no strings attached. Just awesome bookmarks ready for downloading.

Enhancing a child’s reading comprehension doesn’t have to be a daunting task. With our free reading comprehension bookmarks, practicing reading strategies can be a fun, engaging, and rewarding experience. Download them today and see the difference they can make!

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Are you looking for a new homework management solution try homework menus to motivate your students and differentiate through choice read on for tips on using homework menus plus free printables for 2nd and 3rd grade to get you started..

Teacher Homework Confession/Spoiler Alert:

I’ve never been a fan of homework – not as a child and definitely not as a teacher

Homework has been my pet project for awhile, as it’s always driven me crazy that parents, districts, and most administrators required I create and assign something that any research I’ve encountered deemed at worst detrimental or at best only mildly useful. Since I’ve rarely taught in an environment where not giving homework was an option, I’ve attempted to finagle a way to make homework as meaningful as possible for ALL of my students. No easy task, especially when there are so many other things worthy of our time and attention (literacy, math, arts instruction anyone?!)

I’ve tried: *Daily homework – everyone does the same thing, bring it back the next morning *Weekly homework folders – students complete a set schedule of assignments per week (Monday – spelling, Tuesday – math, Wednesday – reading response, etc.) *Homework packets – go home Monday, students finish in whatever order they choose, bring back Friday *Homework point sheets – students earn a specified amount of points for each homework assignment and earn a set amount of points each week

I’ve had varying amounts of success with all of the above as well as a good amount of failure.

The Research on Homework

After reading a variety of research about homework at the elementary level, I strongly believe that the most important part of homework for kids K-5 is reading a just right book. After that, the rest is – just that – the rest.

These two articles are good starting points if you are interested in an overview of the research on homework practices.

Synthesis of Research on Homework The Case For and Against Homework

Here were my takeaways from the articles (from a grade 2-3 perspective)

Homework should:  •Give students a chance to review skills they are comfortable with and can practice independently •Give them an opportunity to do what they enjoy •Give students a chance to be successful at home with academics •Help children see connections between what they do in school and the real world

Homework should not: •Require parents to teach their child something new – let parents do the wrangling, not the teaching •Frustrate kids because of the difficulty of the assignment •Be one size fits all – we don’t teach this way, so why would we assign homework this way?

Homework Menus can be a Solution!

After 14 years of facing this homework conundrum I’ve found that homework menus are the easiest way to differentiate homework in a way that’s easy for teachers to assign and grade.

Plus they give you tons of flexibility so you can include exercise, listening to music, hanging out with family, practicing math facts or mindfulness as menu options.

You are still assigning homework, but getting to choose menu options that you know are really important for kids.

Homework menus give students choice within a structure and can be easily adapted to what you have already taught in class.

You only have to create one menu a month and collect homework assignments once per week (or even per month – although I wouldn’t recommend this – too much room for procrastination).

There are a few different ways to handle turn in of assignments for students who can’t handle the Friday only turn in option.  I use homework bookmarks for 99% of  my kids and a daily homework tracker for the kiddos who need a bit more daily accountability.

Getting Homework Menus up and Running

Want to try out homework menus? Here are a few things to know about getting organized.

At the beginning of every month you will need a new homework menu. Your menu (if you choose to do a monthly one like me) should include around 25 choices. Then you just need the printables and you’re ready to go.  It’s work up front but it saves you time later.

To Do Monthly:

*Get copies of the homework menu ready for every student *Make 15-20 copies of the printable homework options you want to use *Make one set of answer keys for your homework grader (if you are lucky enough to have one) *Find a place to keep homework menu options (you can see some of mine in the pics) – I put them outside my room on plastic shelves so they’re easy to find before and after school

To Do Weekly:

*Make copies of homework bookmarks or trackers to send home *Enter homework in grade book and grade as you would like (If you don’t have a parent volunteer to help you, I say put a sticker on the homework bookmark and send that puppy home!)

To Do As Needed:

As you teach something in class, add it to your homework options folders, crate or shelves. If I have extra copies of a math or reading response assignment I always put them in the homework shelves for students to do as extra practice at home. These have been introduced to them in class and they should be able to complete them at home with minimal support. They can easily fit with the “Complete a math assignment you haven’t already done.” or “Complete a reading response/log” menu options. Even if I have something that doesn’t necessarily fit with a given option, I’ll let students know they can use it as a homework option (and let the parents know too) and write in the assignment they did instead of a number. Easy-peasy!

Homework Menus Frequently Asked Questions

Q: If homework doesn’t really matter anyway, then why even use a menu? Isn’t it just extra work that could be better spend elsewhere? A: I have always worked in schools where there was pressure either by the district, our school administration, or students’ parents to provide some sort of homework . (95% of the pressure came from parents in my experience.)  Providing homework menus with age-appropriate options is my attempt to work within these expectations, while differentiating for every student and honoring their time. This is why exercise, listening to music, practicing mindfulness, and spending time interacting with family members have always been mainstays on my homework menus.  I also like that the menu structure gives me opportunities to include math and reading review assignments that are beneficial for students, since they’re reviews of what we’ve already done in class.

Q: How do parents respond to this type of homework? A: Just like anything else you do in your classroom, some parents are 100% on board and think homework menus are the best thing ever, and others are not so easily persuaded. For the naysayers I use their questions as a jumping off point to explain what research says about homework in elementary grades and that truly my #1 concern is that their child is reading at home. For the most part parents have been very supportive of this type of homework and loved that it gave their child more freedom and less busy work. Kids are busy after school, and they loved that soccer practice and piano lessons (both great uses of after school time!) could be counted toward their weekly homework. Using menus also eliminates complaints from parents who constantly tell you their child isn’t being challenged by the work you’re sending home, since the kids are making the choices.

Q: Parents are concerned that their children aren’t old enough to make choices. What if they just want a homework packet? A: If parents want a packet, I nicely take them outside my classroom (where I keep copies of all the homework choices) with a stapler in hand, randomly take three or four assignments and staple them together. Voila! A homework packet! I don’t think this is the best way to assign homework as it takes responsibility away from the student, but I don’t believe homework is important enough to cause rifts between teachers and parents. I strongly, strongly, strongly (did I say strongly?) disagree that children aren’t able to make choices for themselves.

Q: What if students can’t handle turning in homework only once a week? A: Weekly turn in typically works for 99% of students. For the other 1% I use a Daily Homework Tracker or Bookmark. Students who use these do the same assignments, but turn in a bookmark/tracker each morning with the minutes they read the night before and the menu option they completed (or are working on) so they don’t get behind.

Q: How do you keep track of homework that has been turned in? Do students ever repeat the same assignment? A: I keep track of homework in an Excel document where I record the total minutes of reading and the numbers from the homework menu that students complete each week. At a glance I can make sure students are completing different assignments throughout the month

Q: How do you grade homework? How much time does this take when students are completing different assignments? A: Grading and entering homework into the Excel document is one of the parent volunteer jobs in my classroom. I feel my grading time is much better spent working on reader’s response notebooks or giving students comments on their writer’s workshop pieces rather than grading and entering homework assignments. I have a pack of answer keys that I include in my parent volunteer section of the room for all the monthly assignments, so a willing parent volunteer can do the grading for you. If parent volunteers are scarce, I would grade for completion only. Check! Sticker! Done!

Q: What do you do if students choose only the easiest assignments? A: Parents are usually much more concerned about this than I. Homework is something students should be able to complete independently so technically they should choose assignments that are easy (on an independent level) for them. I talk with my students throughout the year about choosing just right homework assignments and train the parents to do the same. If you can finish it in two minutes it’s too easy. If it makes you want to cry it’s too hard. Since I can’t necessarily control which assignments students pick as this is HOMEwork, I choose my battles. I would rather battle about reading just right books in the classroom than choosing just right homework assignments.

Q: Parents are telling me they have to teach their child how to do the assignment(s). What should I do? A: Remind the parent that there are a number of options for homework. Their job is to provide a calm place, time and structure for their child to work and then congratulate them when their child does their best. Train parents the same way you do students about choosing just right homework assignments (finish in 2 minutes vs. make you want to cry) and make some assignments available online if possible so parents can see what options are available.

Want to try out homework menus? 

Click HERE to download this FREE editable homework menu , homework bookmark , and 4 printables that correspond to the menu and see what you think.  I’d love to hear from you in the comments!

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If you are ready to get started with homework menus for the year, homework menus with corresponding printables are ready to go for every month of the school year at the Super Teacher stores. If you’re just getting started for the year, you can check out the August Homework pack HERE and the September Homework Menu pack HERE .

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Have you tried out the freebie? Already using menus for homework? Let me know what you think in the comments!

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Do you plan on making different grade levels? I would like to purchase a second grade one!

Thanks so much for your question! For 2nd grade, I recommend using menus as in-class activities rather than homework because all of the choices are a bit too overwhelming for 2nd graders. When I taught 2nd grade we used a more simple homework and it worked well, especially at the beginning of the year. However, I did still have students use menus, but as enrichment or fast finishers.

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Printable Punchcard Bookmarks

Aug 26, 2017 · Modified: Jul 3, 2019 by Pam Dana · This post may contain affiliate links · 37 Comments

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These Printable Punchcard Bookmarks are the perfect way to help your kids track their reading and help motivate them to learn to love to read! 

PRINTABLE BOOKMARK

School is in full swing around here! Things have been good, even homework time has been amazing thanks to our new Homework Station ! The only item I’m getting any resistance from with my 2nd grader is getting his reading minutes in!  I wanted to help give him some incentive and motivation to do his reading, so I designed these cute Printable Bookmarks with punches on them!

HOW TO USE THE PUNCHCARD BOOKMARK:

You ultimately can use it however you want, but I have two ways that I am going to try. I initially designed the bookmarks to have 20 spots to punch (or sticker, or mark off, etc)! I designed it that way thinking that it would last for approx one month — that’s spots for them to read 5 of 7 days a week for 4 weeks. If he can read 20 of the 30 (or 31) days a month, then he’ll earn a reward. For example ice cream date, go swimming, $5, etc!

You could also give each punchcard a time value. So, they can punch a spot for every 30 minutes they read. When the bookmark is full, then they earn a reward!

FREE PRINTABLE BOOKMARK

My Nathan is really excited about this new system!  He likes to visually see his progress, plus he really likes having a fun bookmark!  I already know I will be designing some others in the near future!

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PUNCH CARD BOOKMARK

You can download the PDF below!  Just print them at home on cardstock and then cut out!  To make it more durable, we did put them through our home laminator . But, if you don’t have one, then don’t stress.  I really think leaving it as plain cardstock will be fine for just the 1 month! If you don’t want to punch your bookmark, then you could also laminate it and then use a marker to mark off the days.

PRINTABLE READING BOOKMARK

To download the bookmark, click the button below! The download will open in a new tab!

Enjoy and happy reading!!

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November 01, 2020 at 11:32 pm

Really enjoyed this blog post, is there any way I can receive an email sent to me when you publish a new post?

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Love these! Can’t wait to use them with my son! Thanks!

March 15, 2020 at 8:36 pm

We have been using these for 3 years! In our house each punch is 20 minutes of reading. They get a reward after 5 punches. Just had to tell you how much we have loved these!

March 21, 2020 at 9:05 am

Yay! I’m so glad you guys have loved them!!

April 06, 2020 at 8:01 pm

Yay! I love hearing this!! Thanks so much for sharing!

January 22, 2020 at 12:31 am

Thank you for the great PDF bookmarks. My students will get some good use out of them. Greatly appreciated!

January 22, 2020 at 10:14 am

Yay! I’m so glad! Hope they love them!

August 10, 2019 at 8:04 am

Hi can you pdf this wonderful tool to me?! I love the punch card idea!!

Jennifer Spees

June 28, 2019 at 12:08 pm

Can the PDF be emailed to me please. thank you

August 27, 2018 at 11:05 am

I am a homeschool mom and I would love to use these but I can’t get it to down load. can you send it to me in a PDF. I have used some of your other materials/learning tools and love them. this is the first time I have a had a hard time down loading.

August 27, 2018 at 1:35 am

You have brought up a very fantastic details, thanks for the post.

Kimberly Dillow

August 15, 2018 at 6:29 am

These look great & I would love to use them with my students! I can’t find the link to download them. Advice?

Rachel Ivey

August 17, 2018 at 8:11 pm

It took me awhile to find it too because it is above where it says the link is below. Click on the image between the headings of Punch Card Bookmark and Printable Reading Bookmark. It will open the image and then right click and save a copy.

Lauren White

August 09, 2018 at 9:07 am

I am having a hard time finding the link to print these bookmarks. I doesn’t show up on my screen anywhere. Could it possibly be emailed to me? I love these and have used them the past two years and no longer have a master copy to make copies of them with. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated! 🙂 Thanks!

Emily Sommerer

August 07, 2018 at 2:00 pm

I hav been using these for 3 years now, but I cannot get it to work this time. Can you send the PDF please?

Rachel Renner

August 06, 2018 at 4:56 pm

I have been using these the past 2 school years as part of a welcome gift and the link isn’t working anymore. Is there a way you can send me the link for the pdf, please?

March 10, 2018 at 7:42 pm

Love this! I’ll print some out for my students!

March 16, 2018 at 5:02 pm

Yay! Hope they love them!

September 09, 2016 at 11:14 am

Do you specify (to your son) how long (minutes) he will need to read to get a “punch”? I’m thinking about using this for my 3rd grader for one punch a book (ex: Junie B.) and she can earn a bigger prize once reaching, say 20 punches. Something like that…

Leslie Rudzinski

August 10, 2016 at 6:56 am

Love these! I was wondering if you’d make one for practicing music during the week. So maybe numbered 1-7 for the days of the week. Thanks!

June 25, 2016 at 10:38 am

Are they reading in class or at home? How do you know they’ve read?

May 18, 2016 at 3:22 am

Oh my gosh, this is AWESOME!! Super impressed

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• Why give students reading tips in the form of a bookmark?
• How could you use the bookmark to differentiate instruction?
• How could you use this strategy with younger students?

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Megan Whelan Aug 24, 2023 8:07am

The bookmark brings relevance or importance to the comprehension of the text.

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She provides her students the platform to take control of their learning with her bookmark cutout. 

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Speaker 1: I love a strategy. I made a little awesome bookmark for you guys.

I know that for myself, I'm a very visual learner, and I have a lot of students that rely on text not just hearing things, or experiencing them once. One strategy I'm experimenting with is giving my students tips for reading in the form of a bookmark.

Speaker 2: Do we get to put our name on it?

Speaker 1: This is your own personal bookmark.

In this one, we are using it to determine the most important events.

Here's what we're going to do. We're going to practice this with Summer's Section. Did everybody get to finish reading Summer's Section? Yes right? I have a couple of events. You're going to just pick random ones, and you're going to have a conversation with each other using these questions, "Would this be a major or a minor event?"

There's 3 questions on this bookmark. If this event were missing, would it be hard to understand the text?

Speaker 3: I think it's a major event.

Speaker 1: Why?

Speaker 3: I mean, if this was not really in the book, nobody would understand why people don't like [inaudible 00:01:09]. They just judge him because of how he looks.

Speaker 1: If this event were missing, would the text feel incomplete?

Speaker 4: That's complete.

Speaker 4: Because someone needs to know what happens to Jack and August.

Speaker 1: If this event were missing, would it have less of an impact on me as a reader?

Speaker 5: It was mostly like a detail from her past, instead of something that had actually happened that was important right now.

Speaker 1: Okay, so it's kind of part of her back story, but it's not necessarily impacting what's happening in the text right now?

If you answer yes to these, it might be a major event.

Those major events are going to help you in terms of analyzing and making decisions about what something means. If you're getting confused between these two, and you think everything is really important, it may actually change what you know or how you understand the story.

Speaker 6: Summer explains that she first sat with August because she felt sorry for him.

Speaker 7: Well, I think that's a detail.

Speaker 1: Okay. If you had to choose that piece of character development to put as a major event or a minor event, which would you choose?

Speaker 6: A minor event.

Speaker 6: Because all it is is character development. It's not major character development, but it is character development.

Speaker 1: Would the text be harder to understand or feel less complete if this was missing?

Speaker 6: It would feel less complete.

Speaker 1: Okay, so if you answer yes then you probably found a major event.

I would use this bookmark also to lay out other strategies great readers use. I think it could also be used as a reading response. I know that middle schoolers like to do things that are different, not necessarily just on a piece of loose-leaf paper. Having them do it on a bookmark form might be more engaging for some students, and less paper for me to take home.

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Bookmarks to remind your students of the different reading strategies.

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Decoding Strategies at Your Students’ Fingertips!

When children are learning to read, evidence-based reading strategies need to be explicitly taught and reinforced in the hope that this will eventually become an automatic process.

Aligned to the Science of Reading, these reading strategies bookmarks include decoding strategies that students can use at grapheme, word, and sentence level.

The reading strategies included on these bookmarks are:

• Mouth Ready  – Get your mouth ready to make the sounds.
• Eyes Left  – Start at the left, move across to the right.
• Blend Sounds  – Glue sounds together, one to the next.
• Syllable Split  – Split the word into syllables.
• Meaning Check  – Does that make sense?
• Grapheme Gaze  – Find each grapheme, saying the sound.

You will notice “Meaning Check” has been included as a strategy. This is because reading for meaning is important – the point of reading is, after all, to make meaning!

Preparing Our Reading Strategy Bookmarks

• Print the required number of bookmarks for your students. Each page contains two bookmarks. Cardstock is recommended for increased durability.
• Cut around the thick black line, then fold along the center line.
• Paste the two halves together.
• Grab a good book and get reading!

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Performance Task: Reading Strategies Bookmark

In this lesson, daily learning targets, ongoing assessment.

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These are the CCS Standards addressed in this lesson:

• W.3.4: With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose.
• W.3.5: With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing. 
• I can create a bookmark to remind me of strategies to overcome my reading challenges. (W.3.4, W.3.5)
• Reading strategies bookmark (W.3.4, W.3.5)

• Gather materials for designing and decorating reading strategies bookmarks (e.g., colored cardstock, paints, markers, colored paper, scissors, glue, ribbon, stickers, etc.).
• Review the Red Light, Green Light protocol. (Refer to the Classroom Protocols document for the full version of the protocol.)
• Post: Learning targets and Performance Task anchor chart.

Tech and Multimedia

• Work Time A: Students could create their bookmark using word processing software or drawing software--for example, Google Docs or Google Drawings.
• Work Time A: Students could create their bookmark on a word processing document, for example a Google Doc using Speech to Text facilities activated on devices, or using an app or software like Dictation.io .

Supports guided in part by CA ELD Standard 3.I.C.10

Important points in the lesson itself:

• The basic design of this lesson supports ELLs with opportunities to engage the learning targets through arts and crafts. This will allow students to express themselves through a visual medium, which will provide a source of confidence for many. It will also give students practice condensing language and setting goals.
• It may not be immediately evident for ELLs exactly how the bookmarks relate to the rest of the unit. Take additional time to review prior knowledge and learning in order to explicitly connect it to the bookmarks. This will provide students with a clearer sense of purpose.

Levels of Support

For lighter support:

• Before providing pre-written sticky notes or additional support during the lesson, observe student work and allow students to grapple. Provide supportive materials only after students have grappled with the task. Observe the areas in which they struggle to target appropriate support.

For heavier support:

• Provide students with illustrated step-by-step instructions for completing their bookmarks. (Example: Provide the text "Step 1: Neatly copy the points from your rough drafts to the final draft" next to a photograph of the rough draft and final drafts side by side.)
• Multiple Means of Representation: In addition to verbally explaining expectations for the reading strategies bookmark, provide multiple models for students to see what a final product looks like. Facilitate a discussion around elements of the model bookmarks that make them aesthetically pleasing and easy to read and understand. 
• Multiple Means of Action and Expression: Students who may need additional support with expressive language may benefit from scaffolds to help them formulate positive feedback statements. Consider providing pre-made sticky notes with sample phrases of positive feedback that relates to this assignment. Students can then select which piece of feedback they would like to leave for their peers.
• Multiple Means of Engagement: Since this lesson allows students to use creativity in order to personalize their bookmark, there are many opportunities to build engagement. Provide multiple materials for students to use when designing their bookmark (markers, crayons, colored pencils, stickers, etc.). This way, students can make bookmarks that reflect their individuality.
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• Sticky notes (at least six per student)

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Russia said it prevented a Ukrainian attempt to hijack a missile-carrying strategic bomber

• Russia's FSB said it thwarted a Ukrainian attempt to hijack a missile-carrying strategic bomber.
• It said Ukraine promised the pilot money and Italian citizenship to take off and land in Ukraine.
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Russia's Federal Security Service said it thwarted a Ukrainian attempt to hijack a missile-carrying strategic bomber.

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According to the FSB, Ukrainian intelligence promised an unnamed Russian military pilot money and Italian citizenship in exchange for him taking off and landing the plane in Ukraine.

Instead, according to the report, the pilot told his commanders everything.

Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti published a video of the purported pilot as well as an alleged chat between him and someone from Ukrainian special services, which claimed to show the pilot and his family being threatened.

The FSB also claimed that NATO special forces took part in the attempted hijacking operation, without giving evidence, and that through the pilot it was able to obtain intelligence that allowed Russia to strike an airbase in northwestern Ukraine.

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