Back to School Reading Project | Road Trip Reading Project

Engage your students at the end of the year with this digital and printable 23-page road trip-themed reading project for upper elementary! It is FUN for students and the perfect way to gauge your students’ reading abilities at the beginning of the year.

This is the most fun way to practice key literacy skills!

Students in upper elementary will warm up and review a variety of key reading skills in various ways while taking a road trip across the United States of America. The pages are standalone, so you can use a few of the pages or all of them depending on how much time you have and the skills your students are ready to review. (Making them PERFECT for DIFFERENTIATION!)

This reading project is the perfect companion to my Road Trip Math Project!

What’s included in this reading project?

• 25 pages of content
• Two printable versions: full color and ink-friendly
• Travel Essentials (A printable suitcase and various luggage items – students will collect items and fill their suitcase as they complete the project)
• Answer Key
• Interactive digital version in Google Slides

Which reading skills are covered in this project?

• Context Clues
• Fluency
• Paraphrasing
• Parts of Speech
• Inference
• Author’s Purpose
• Persuasive Writing
• Figurative Language
• Perspective
• Problem and Solution
• Character Traits
• Making Connections
• Finding Evidence
• Fact and Opinion
• Comprehension
• Synthesizing
• Main Idea

Need more reading projects? I’ve got them!
Camp Conundrum – An Inference Reading Project
‘The High Speed Read’: Text Structures Reading Project
‘The Tumultuously Terrific Travel Trek – A Context Clues Reading Project
Winning Winter Sports – A Literacy and Reading Project
Traveling Text Structures – An Informational Text Structure Reading Project
It’s Our Party – A Sequencing Reading Project

Need more engaging End of the Year or Back to School ideas? I’ve got you covered!
Awards for the End of the Year
Using Pictures to Teach Reading Skills Before Summer
End of the Year Reading Activity – A Yearbook Scavenger Hunt
End of the Year Road Trip  – A Math Project
End of the Year Party Planner – A Math Project
End of the Year Memory Book Activity
Reading Fluency Activity

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