Amanda Gorman | Reading Comprehension Worksheet & Lesson Plan
A reading comprehension and discussion lesson built around a biographical article on poet Amanda Gorman, paired with a teacher lesson plan.
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A reading comprehension and discussion lesson built around a biographical article on poet Amanda Gorman, paired with a teacher lesson plan.
A digital, interactive micro-learning slide deck teaching about Egyptian afterlife beliefs (the soul, judgment of the heart, Ba/Ka/Akh) through a reading passage, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing activities.
Deliver a digital 'micro-learning' slideshow lesson on Martin Luther King Jr. covering a video lesson, an audio-supported reading passage, vocabulary, and a closing written summary.
Build reading comprehension, vocabulary, and English fluency through a close reading of a 350-word article on the life of Nikola Tesla, paired with a full teacher lesson plan.
A no-prep, digital, interactive micro-learning deck teaching upper-elementary students informational reading comprehension skills using giraffes as the content topic.
Teach middle/high school students about influential African Americans (Part 1 of a 3-part interactive reading-comprehension slide deck series) using biographical informational text.
Watch/read an embedded video and audio-supported reading passage about competing theories on how the Black Death spread (including the 'Did Rats Really Cause the Black Death?' rat-vs-gerbil study); fill in missing key terms from a word bank; match vocabulary terms to their definitions (drag-and-drop); write a…
Read a nonfiction passage aloud, record reading time and words struggled with, answer comprehension questions, complete a spelling activity, retell/summarize a passage in the student's own words, and (for Camel Humps) research and write about another animal of choice citing sources.
An interactive micro-learning PowerPoint deck teaching about the Plateau Native Americans (geography, food sources, housing, clothing) through a video/audio reading passage, vocabulary, comprehension activities, and a summary writing task.
Read the 'Power From the Sun' passage; answer multiple-choice/short-answer comprehension questions including a true/false correction and a multi-step math word problem (panels needed to power light bulbs); read a 162-word excerpt aloud and record time taken and words struggled with; write a summary of the passage.
Teach an informational reading passage about early human beings (hominids/cavemen), covering how they lived, discovered fire, and made tools, while building close-reading, vocabulary, and summarizing skills.
An interactive micro-learning slide deck teaching about the California Gold Rush (started 1849) through video links, an informational reading passage, a close-reading fill-in-the-blank activity, word-play/discussion prompts, and a guided summary-writing template.
Read a nonfiction passage aloud, record reading time and words struggled with, answer comprehension questions, complete a spelling activity, retell/summarize a passage in the student's own words, and (for Camel Humps) research and write about another animal of choice citing sources.
Brainstorm opinion topics using Quiz-Quiz-Trade cards and a circle-map graphic organizer, research the topic online, organize ideas with a planning graphic organizer, write a five-paragraph rough draft, revise/edit using a checklist (including with a partner), and publish a final draft (typed or handwritten), assessed with an included…
Read the 'Power From the Sun' passage; answer multiple-choice/short-answer comprehension questions including a true/false correction and a multi-step math word problem (panels needed to power light bulbs); read a 162-word excerpt aloud and record time taken and words struggled with; write a summary of the passage.
Watch a video and/or read the fable with audio support, learn key vocabulary (deserves, riverbank, swept, tore), complete a fill-in-the-blank 'What's Missing?' activity, complete a drag-and-drop 'Who Did It?' matching activity attributing actions to the ant or dove, and write a one-sentence-per-prompt summary of the…
Read a one-page first-person passage; answer multiple-choice and short-answer comprehension questions; fill in missing letters in art-related vocabulary words; write two questions for the author; respond to a personal-reflection writing prompt about their own favorite class. Answer key provided.
No-prep fiction reading comprehension resource for Grade 2-3, delivered as one slide-deck style file per lesson (short-fiction story on a 'School' theme followed by comprehension, vocabulary/spelling, and writing activities) for display or independent use.
Digital micro-lesson teaching reading comprehension, vocabulary, and summarizing skills through the fable The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg.
A single nonfiction reading-comprehension lesson about solar energy, pairing an informational passage with comprehension, fluency, and writing activities.
An informational-text reading comprehension micro-lesson (interactive slide deck) about the job of being a sports mascot, built around a reading passage, vocabulary, and main-idea/summarizing skills.
Read a one-page first-person passage; answer multiple-choice and short-answer comprehension questions; fill in missing letters in art-related vocabulary words; write two questions for the author; respond to a personal-reflection writing prompt about their own favorite class. Answer key provided.
No-prep fiction reading comprehension resource for Grade 2-3, delivered as one slide-deck style file per lesson (short-fiction story on a 'Friends' theme followed by comprehension, vocabulary/spelling, and writing activities) for display or independent use.
For each topic (e.g. 'We should grow our own vegetables,' 'Kids should be able to vote,' 'Kids should have less homework'), type, write, or draw one sentence per prompt slot (Title, Hook, Reason 1, Reason 2, Ending), optionally using a provided word bank.