Our Best Friend Trooper the Dog: Emergency Lesson Plan
Emergency substitute-teacher lesson plan built around a narrative reading passage about a family dog, paired with comprehension, vocabulary, math word-problem, and word-search activities.
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Emergency substitute-teacher lesson plan built around a narrative reading passage about a family dog, paired with comprehension, vocabulary, math word-problem, and word-search activities.
Digital art and creative writing activity where students design a burger and write a persuasive/descriptive advertisement-style paragraph about it.
Creative-writing activity framing students as a police officer investigating the events at the three bears' house, writing an official police report.
A reproducible Milliken Publishing workbook of 26 themed creative-writing activities guiding grade 5-6 students through narrative, poetry, and persuasive/commercial writing forms.
A cross-curricular biography unit on Jane Goodall combining a nonfiction narrative with reading comprehension, vocabulary, simple math word problems, and writing activities.
A cross-curricular unit teaching students how author Louisa May Alcott drew on her own life to write 'Little Women', combining reading comprehension, creative writing, vocabulary, and math (fractions/word problems) practice.
Combined, week-long version of the community-workers unit: ties career exploration to inductive multiplication/division fact fluency and word problems, close reading of Chippewa/Ojibwe tribal history, and daily writing, culminating in a 'Future Me' poster and letters to real community workers.
Creative-writing activity in which students role-play as paparazzi who 'spot' each Goldilocks character and report details about them.
A cross-curricular non-fiction reading and skills unit on tornadoes and windstorms, combining reading comprehension, vocabulary, creative writing, and math word problems around the science topic.
A 30-activity movie-study lesson plan and worksheet packet built around the 2020 Netflix film 'We Can Be Heroes', covering vocabulary, reading comprehension/retelling, teamwork/leadership and SEL themes, math (word problems, tally charts, coordinate grids), and creative writing, for a core 90-minute lesson or a week of cross-curricular work.
A reproducible Milliken Publishing workbook of 26 themed creative-writing activities guiding grade 3-4 students through the writing process.
A 114-page reproducible creative-writing book presenting an informal, personal-experience-based approach to teaching writing, with a large collection of open-ended writing topic activities.
A choice-board math project for 3rd grade students to review a self-selected math topic in depth through a creative product of their choosing, at the end of the school year.
A reproducible Milliken Publishing workbook of 26 themed creative-writing activities guiding grade 4-5 students through character development, descriptive writing, poetry, and imaginative writing techniques.
A creative writing activity that reframes the Hansel and Gretel story in a modern tabloid/paparazzi context to prompt imaginative narrative writing.
A creative-writing activity where students roll a die three times to select a character, setting, and problem, then plan and write their own story, optionally inspired by an included short story ('Three Free Wishes').
A baseball-themed cross-curricular unit combining reading comprehension, writing, and math practice for elementary students.
A movie-study lesson plan/worksheet packet for the film Flora & Ulysses (2021), with 30 activities building reading comprehension, vocabulary, character analysis, theme analysis, data/graph interpretation, and creative writing skills.
An emergency/substitute lesson plan built around a nonfiction reading passage on the history of peanuts, paired with comprehension, vocabulary, math, and word-search activities.
A grade 3 math practice packet covering addition, subtraction, multiplication, elapsed time, measurement, geometry, money, and graphing, framed around a narrative about Inuit siblings Tulok and Amka.
Provide a pirate-themed, cross-curricular packet of language arts and math practice activities for early elementary students.
A multi-activity creative-writing booklet that opens with a craft instruction for making a decorated pencil (duct-tape flower pen), then leads students through writing haiku poems and an outlined short story.
A creative writing/role-play activity where students act as paparazzi reporting on characters from Little Red Riding Hood.
Substitute/emergency lesson plan using a narrative reading passage about lemurs to teach reading comprehension plus cross-curricular math, geography, and vocabulary content.