Assessments: Short Stories with Literary Elements
Provides an original short story ('Suicide Revised') plus a set of comprehension/literary-element questions for analyzing the story's craft.
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Provides an original short story ('Suicide Revised') plus a set of comprehension/literary-element questions for analyzing the story's craft.
A 2-hour lesson plan and student worksheet package built around the 1986 TV docudrama 'The Boy King' about young Martin Luther King Jr., teaching how childhood experiences, family values, and encounters with segregation/discrimination shaped his character and future leadership.
A no-prep science-and-literacy packet that teaches what biomes and habitats are through short informational readings, paired with reading-response and vocabulary worksheets, for use as a unit resource, extra work, or sub plans.
A full-length ELA/literacy practice test modeled on the Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR) for Grade 5, giving students practice with reading comprehension, vocabulary, and evidence-based writing, with an accompanying answer key and teacher's guide.
A simple booklet introducing action verbs paired with illustrations, for early reading/vocabulary practice.
Take the fun in Aladdin's adventure to your reading class with this Aladdin Lapbook Project created for Grades 3, 4, 5, homeschoolers, and EFL/ESL learners. This meaningful and engaging reading project is perfect for ELA reading class, reading centers, project-based learning, and fairy tale units. What’s Inside: 3 Aladdin Lapbook Differentiated Reading…
A full-length ELA/literacy practice test modeled on the Illinois Assessment of Readiness (IAR) for Grade 6, giving students practice with reading comprehension, vocabulary, and evidence-based writing, with an accompanying answer key and teacher's guide.
A multi-lesson Canadian history teaching unit on the Confederation of Canada, covering historical background, key figures, and related skills through core lessons, student notes, a board game, and optional lessons.
A hands-on history unit teaching students about cowboy life and the cattle drive era of the 1800s American West through readings, crafts, and activities.
Give secondary-level ESL/EFL students reading-comprehension and writing practice using a short nonfiction passage about the World Nomad Games (Central Asian sports/cultural festival).
An interactive micro-learning slide deck teaching middle-school students how prehistoric humans (ancestors, Neanderthals) made and used stone tools, through video, an audio-supported reading passage, close reading, and vocabulary practice.
A 5-day, no-prep novel study companion for 'The Knight at Dawn' (Magic Tree House #2), combining daily videos, reading assignments, comprehension quizzes, vocabulary practice, and drawing activities.
Provide a Florida FAST ELA Writing practice test for Grade 6, with reading-based multiple-choice/open-response questions, language-convention items, and an extended writing task, plus a full answer key with scoring rubrics.
A structured phonics unit (Unit 6 of the 12-part Road to Reading intervention program) that teaches struggling readers to decode phonetically regular short-vowel words containing consonant blends and digraphs.
A full day of ready-to-copy substitute-teacher lesson plans and activities for 4th graders covering natural resources (natural, man-made, renewable, nonrenewable).
An emergency (substitute-ready) Language Arts lesson plan pairing a narrative reading passage about the invention of the trampoline with comprehension and writing activities, for Grades 5-6.
An early-reader nonfiction book teaching young readers facts about worms, paired with a parallel blank 'writing book' version and supporting literacy materials.
Teaches the meaning and usage of the figurative-language idiom 'blow off steam' through a short interactive lesson (video, reading passage, and practice activities) for reading comprehension practice.
An interactive 'micro-learning deck' teaching close reading and vocabulary through an original informational song about Vikings, for social studies/ELA instruction.
Teach the figurative-language idiom "to rain on someone's parade" through a short concept intro, a reading passage using the phrase in context, and comprehension follow-up activities.
An interactive digital micro-learning slideshow lesson on Franklin Roosevelt's life and presidency, combining video, a leveled reading passage, vocabulary, and writing practice.
An emergency (sub-ready) lesson plan built around a short story about left-handedness, teaching reading comprehension and factual content about handedness.
Teach the idiom 'elephant in the room' and build literal/inferential comprehension and summarizing skills through a short reading passage with audio support.
A four-lesson PowerPoint bundle of physical-science reading passages (position/distance/motion, pushing/pulling forces, sound/hearing/force, characteristics of sound) that build science literacy through nonfiction reading with comprehension and spelling questions.