Phonics Strategies for Older Students by Phonics Advantage
A phonics and spelling remediation program intended for older struggling readers, covering Vc phonogram/syllable division, silent E, and homophones.
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A phonics and spelling remediation program intended for older struggling readers, covering Vc phonogram/syllable division, silent E, and homophones.
Bilingual English-Romanian vocabulary flashcards teaching family-member and relationship terms to ESL/EFL learners who speak Romanian.
A set of four learning-center activities that teach students how to organize the paragraphs of informative and argumentative essays.
Build English vocabulary and cultural knowledge about England/the United Kingdom through picture-and-word flash cards covering landmarks, traditions, food, and historical figures.
Form a hypothesis, assemble described materials, and carry out hands-on experiments/activities across 24 lab sections (What Is in Our Air?, A Gas Guessing Game, Air Matters, Balloons: Elastic Bags of Air, balloon-weight and puzzler labs, Air Under Pressure, Air Pressure Fun, Bottled Eggs, Newton's Soda Pop Bottle…
Per the resource's own description page: learn scientific vocabulary terms/definitions, play a linked Kahoot game, read a kid-friendly article about the disease, watch a linked BrainPop video and a video of a child with cystic fibrosis, and answer discussion questions.
Bilingual English-Kannada vocabulary flashcards teaching family-member and relationship terms to ESL/EFL learners who speak Kannada.
A set of 5 rotating math stations that supplement a unit on statistics and probability, covering theoretical/experimental probability, measures of central tendency, and dot plots.
Students read a scenario sentence stem on each card (e.g. 'A trade-off of buying a large truck is____') and write in a plausible trade-off, recording answers on a student recording sheet; can be used as a scoot game, station activity, or 'Footloose'-style room activity.
Given a total party budget, decide what percent to allocate to each of 5 categories (food/cake, activity/venue, decorations, party outfit, goodie bags) so the percents sum to 100%, convert each percent to a decimal, calculate the dollar amount for each category, then research and price actual items (using the internet or store flyers)…
Participate in structured icebreaker games and discussions: draw discussion topics and talk in small groups (Let's Get Talking); write an anonymous fact and guess authors (Snowball Fight); answer prompt questions tied to candy colors (Skittles Icebreaker); write a short 140-character 'tweet' about themselves (Tweet…
Work in lab teams to complete hands-on investigations across 21 sections: Trapping Smog Particles, Investigating Smog, Water Pollution Lab, Water Water Everywhere, water cycle lab, Acid Rain, Symbiosis Guessing Game, Soil Lab, Trees Are Not Just for the Birds, Acoustilab (sound pollution), Quackery Lab, Survival…
Students read leveled informational passages (two levels, marked A and B), answer multiple-choice comprehension questions, complete a vocabulary-matching activity (terms include Eli Whitney, Transport), and fill in a graphic organizer identifying a main idea and three supporting details/events.
A four-week classroom mindfulness workbook (Mindful Moments for Middle Schoolers, by Giselle Shardlow of Kids Yoga Stories) providing daily five-to-ten-minute mindfulness activities for sixth-to-eighth-grade classrooms.
Students complete a 46-item review (44 multiple-choice items plus 2 written-response items, including a mini document-based-question analysis) using primary sources, diagrams and data, marking answers on a bubble/written-response answer sheet; after scoring, students identified with skill gaps complete matched Follow-Up Practice…
A set of 36 task cards that has students determine whether the result of an addition or subtraction problem involving integers will be positive or negative, without calculating the actual sum or difference.
Students annotate provided texts using DocHub, work through Google Slides lessons with embedded videos, complete Google Forms quizzes, and write an argumentative essay answering the Atlantis inquiry question, including a counterclaim paragraph.
Complete 22 worksheet activities across 5 scripted 45-minute daily lessons: My Year in Review (reflective essay writing); Friendship Letters (argument with alternate-claim structure); Summer Reading Adventure (theme, structure & dramatic irony); Word Detectives (word relationships, allusion, word families); Dreams for…
A follow-up professional-development ebook of additional, more advanced tips for middle school teachers, continuing the author's Middle School 101 series.
Discuss the definitions of budget, financial wants, and financial needs as a class; individually think of 3 personal needs and 3 personal wants; then complete a cut-and-paste sorting activity classifying 20 items into 'Needs' or 'Wants' columns.
Complete themed writing activities such as journal writing, a time-capsule list activity, science-fiction writing, alphabet/acrostic and concrete poetry, haiku, developing believable characters and dialogue, first-person narrative, story endings, fables, and figures of speech, following prompts and extension…
Build English vocabulary about space and space exploration through picture-and-word flash cards covering the planets, spacecraft, and key space-history milestones.
Teach English/ESL vocabulary for food and drinks, including category sorting and dietary-label terms.
Read narrative handouts about Lincoln and the Battle of Gettysburg, then complete review handouts including a biography crossword, a Civil War timeline, a Battle of Gettysburg map activity, and analysis of the handwritten version of the Gettysburg Address.