Playful Penguins Unit
A cross-curricular reading/science unit teaching facts about penguins through a mini-reader, comprehension activities, and games.
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A cross-curricular reading/science unit teaching facts about penguins through a mini-reader, comprehension activities, and games.
Sight-word flashcards teaching school-related vocabulary through picture-supported word recognition.
California CAASPP 3 ELA/Literacy Practice Tests for Grade 6 Make middle school test prep engaging and effective with these CAASPP Grade 6 ELA Practice Tests ! This comprehensive, standards-aligned resource includes three full-length tests designed to build reading mastery, strengthen writing skills, and boost confidence for the CAASPP. What’s Included ✅…
A digital micro-learning slide deck teaching informational-text reading, vocabulary, and comprehension skills through a biography of George W. Bush.
Read-aloud comprehension activity guide built around 'Scuffy the Tugboat', focused on modes of transportation mentioned in the story.
A set of six nonfiction reading-comprehension lessons (No Fly Zone, Ostrich, Chickadees, The Owl, Turkeys, Oil Spill) that pair an informational passage about birds with post-reading activities.
A scripted elementary school play/readers' theater about a prince who accidentally turns himself into a dragon with a wizard's potion, for drama and reading practice.
Grade 3 reading-comprehension practice using 10 short passages about inventions, each followed by comprehension exercises, a creative task, and an answer key.
Grade 3 reading-comprehension practice using 10 short passages about mountains, each followed by comprehension exercises, a creative task, and an answer key.
Reading-guide lesson exploring what makes food organic and whether organic food is healthier than non-organic food.
Practices counting and number recognition 0-12 using watermelon-seed images, paired with a healthy-eating bonus reading about watermelon's nutritional benefits.
A 5-day unit study teaching students about Louisiana's capital, state bird, state flower, state flag, and state animal through videos, readings, worksheets, and interactive notebook activities.
Grade 3 reading-comprehension practice using 10 short passages about lakes, each followed by comprehension exercises, a creative task, and an answer key.
One-lesson free sample of a themed reading comprehension passage series (Candy), presented in a clickable/presentation PDF format with two leveled passages, per seller description and file content.
Reading comprehension practice using a short informational passage about how plants grow.
Provide a Florida FAST ELA Writing practice test for Grade 9, with reading-based multiple-choice/open-response questions, language-convention items, and an extended writing task, plus a full answer key with scoring rubrics.
Introduce students to narrative poetry as a genre, using video clips, guided discussion, language-device practice, and a full worked example (the poem 'Matilda') plus an independent homework poem.
Provide a multi-activity book companion for a picture-book version of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' story, supporting reading comprehension, vocabulary, inference, and character analysis.
Teaches students about Renaissance artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo through a differentiated-level informational text, then reinforces it with a print or digital 'secret picture tiles' reveal activity.
A Bible-based activity pack teaching that God created birds (Genesis 1:20-23), combining scripture copywork, bird identification, a matching card game, a neighborhood bird scavenger hunt, and reading comprehension.
A book companion packet for the story 'The Gruffalo,' built for emergent-literacy and AAC/complex-communication-needs learners, providing language, communication, shared-reading, and comprehension activities tied to the book.
A digital 'micro-learning deck' (interactive PowerPoint lesson) teaching the figurative-language idiom 'back to square one' through an intro, a reading passage with audio, fill-in-the-blank and true/false comprehension activities, and a guided summary-writing task.
A review game ('I Have, Who Has?') that reinforces nonfiction/informational text vocabulary terms tied to Reading Informational (RI) standards.
A digital, interactive micro-learning slide deck teaching ancient Greek art and architecture (sculpture, pottery/vase painting styles, and temple architecture) through a reading passage, vocabulary, and comprehension/writing activities.