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Archaeology | Reading Comprehension Deck | Interactive Lesson teaching resource preview
Reading comprehension

Archaeology | Reading Comprehension Deck | Interactive Lesson

Watch embedded video lessons and read passages about archaeology; fill in missing vocabulary words from a word bank to complete sentences ('What's Missing?'); read and respond to word-play jokes about archaeology (explain the pun, compare with another joke, rate it, compose an original joke); write a one-sentence…

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Microsoft PowerPoint
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6–8
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Creative Writing Workshop: "Show. Don't Tell" Mini Lesson teaching resource preview
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Creative Writing Workshop: "Show. Don't Tell" Mini Lesson

A mini-lesson/workshop teaching secondary students the 'show, don't tell' writing principle, using a slideshow contrasting telling sentences with showing paragraphs, then having students turn a randomly-drawn telling sentence into a descriptive showing paragraph.

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Microsoft PowerPoint
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9–12
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How to Write a Paragraph: Drafting Practice teaching resource preview
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How to Write a Paragraph: Drafting Practice

Reproducible chapter excerpt ("Chapter Slice") from the workbook "How to Write a Paragraph" (CCP1100), covering the sub-topic "Drafting Practice" (page 28 of the full 64-page workbook, per that workbook's table of contents) for teaching the paragraph-writing process.

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5–8
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Sight Word Fluency Packet - its teaching resource preview
Phonics & word study

Sight Word Fluency Packet - its

Read short sentences containing the sight word "its", fill in blanks with the word from memory on a second pass of the same sentences, then read a target sentence, copy/write it, and draw a picture illustrating it.

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1
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Guided Reading Activities and Lesson Plans Nonfiction Set 1 teaching resource preview Free download
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Guided Reading Activities and Lesson Plans Nonfiction Set 1

For each of the 12 lessons (American Bison; Brown Bears; Elephant Seals; Visayan Pigs; Seahorses; Pandas; Wolves; Blue Jays; Iceland; Yogurt; Karate; Clean Air), students answer pre-reading discussion questions, respond to during-reading prompts, learn and apply story vocabulary via vocabulary and vocabulary-question…

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6–7
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Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 4 teaching resource preview
Reading comprehension

Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 4

Take part in a teacher-led guided reading lesson built around Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (Chapter 3: "Escape"): warm-up/prediction discussion, shared or independent reading, and post-reading comprehension/discussion or writing activities focused on character trait analysis (Wilbur and Charlotte) and…

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4
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Sight Word Fluency Packet - house teaching resource preview
Phonics & word study

Sight Word Fluency Packet - house

Read short sentences containing the sight word "house", fill in blanks with the word from memory on a second pass of the same sentences, then read a target sentence, copy/write it, and draw a picture illustrating it.

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1–2
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Guided Reading Activities and Lesson Plans Fiction Set 2 teaching resource preview Free download
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Guided Reading Activities and Lesson Plans Fiction Set 2

For each of the 12 lessons (Cooking Camp; Graduation; No Internet; School Musical; My Key; Creepy Well; Bug Trip; Solo Flight; Summer at Gran's; Wild Wild West; Danger Mountain; Math Queen), students answer pre-reading discussion questions, respond to during-reading prompts, learn and apply story vocabulary via…

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6–7
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Reading Comprehension Nonfiction Set 1 - Birds (PPT) teaching resource preview
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Reading Comprehension Nonfiction Set 1 - Birds (PPT)

A set of six no-prep nonfiction reading comprehension lessons about birds (No Fly Zone/flightless birds, Ostrich, Chickadees, The Owl, Turkeys, Oil Spill), delivered as separate PowerPoint slide decks (one per lesson), for grade 4-5 readers.

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Microsoft PowerPoint
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4–5
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Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 12 teaching resource preview
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Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 12

Take part in a teacher-led guided reading lesson built around 1984 by George Orwell (through Chapter 5): warm-up/prediction discussion, shared or independent reading, and post-reading comprehension/discussion or writing activities focused on themes, Winston Smith's character development, language/propaganda…

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12
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Sight Word Fluency Packet - right teaching resource preview
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Sight Word Fluency Packet - right

Read sentences containing the sight word "right"; fill in the blanked-out word while reading a repeated passage; copy a model sentence containing the word onto blank lines; draw a picture illustrating the sentence.

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2
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Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 9 teaching resource preview
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Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 9

Students complete a quick-write warm-up, listen to and discuss read-aloud excerpts, work in groups to build an evidence-based theme chart on empathy or prejudice, individually write a short symbolism-analysis response about the mockingbird, participate in a closing Socratic seminar discussion, and complete a homework…

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4 pages
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9
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Science Reading Organisms and Environments (Presentable PDF) teaching resource preview
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Science Reading Organisms and Environments (Presentable PDF)

Students read an illustrated passage in each lesson, then answer multiple-choice comprehension questions, complete flowchart/food-web diagrams, and complete a spelling/vocabulary fill-in-the-blank exercise (confirmed in full for Lesson 26: Food Chains and Food Webs, including a complete answer key; Lesson 27…

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2–4
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Sight Word Fluency Packet - say teaching resource preview
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Sight Word Fluency Packet - say

Read sentences containing the sight word "say"; fill in the blanked-out word while reading a repeated passage; copy a model sentence containing the word onto blank lines; draw a picture illustrating the sentence.

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1
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Science Reading Comprehension Life Cycles of Organisms Presentable PDF teaching resource preview
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Science Reading Comprehension Life Cycles of Organisms Presentable PDF

Read an informational passage, answer multiple-choice comprehension questions, complete a sorting/classification exercise (conifer vs. flowering plant traits), solve a crossword puzzle using passage vocabulary (shown solved in the answer key), and check answers against a provided answer key with textual justification; content continues…

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2–4
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Sentence Structure Supplementary Materials Grade 5-6 (PDF) teaching resource preview Free download
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Sentence Structure Supplementary Materials Grade 5-6 (PDF)

Students participate in warm-up board activities, guided practice rewriting/combining sentences, partner/team tasks (sentence sorting, compound-sentence relay), answer sets of 10 short-answer questions per lesson, and creative-writing prompts applying each lesson's grammar focus.

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5–7
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Sight Word Fluency Packet - sentence teaching resource preview
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Sight Word Fluency Packet - sentence

Read sentences containing the sight word "sentence"; fill in the blanked-out word while reading a repeated passage; copy a model sentence containing the word onto blank lines; draw a picture illustrating the sentence.

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2
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