Too Much Trash: Emergency Lesson Plan
Provide a ready-to-use 'emergency' substitute-friendly lesson on landfills and recycling for grades 1-2, combining a nonfiction reading passage with follow-up activities.
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Provide a ready-to-use 'emergency' substitute-friendly lesson on landfills and recycling for grades 1-2, combining a nonfiction reading passage with follow-up activities.
Comprehensive novel/picture-book study unit built around the picture book 'Voices from the Underground Railroad' by Kay Winters, teaching comprehension, vocabulary, spelling, historical context, and grammar through a pre-assessment plus 16 sequenced lessons about two siblings escaping slavery in 1861.
A full novel/book-study unit built around Lauren Tarshis's book "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005", providing chapter-by-chapter comprehension, vocabulary, spelling and figurative-language practice plus culminating assessments.
A full novel/book-study unit built around Lauren Tarshis's book "I Survived The Galveston Hurricane, 1900", providing chapter-by-chapter comprehension, vocabulary, spelling and figurative-language practice plus culminating assessments.
A guided reading lesson plan for Grade 12, built around the anchor text 1984 by George Orwell (through Chapter 5), targeting themes, Winston Smith's character development, language/propaganda, surveillance and freedom discussion.
A full novel/book-study unit built around Lauren Tarshis's book "I Survived The California Wildfires, 2018", providing chapter-by-chapter comprehension, vocabulary, spelling and figurative-language practice plus culminating assessments.
A full novel/book-study unit built around Lauren Tarshis's book "I Survived The Children's Blizzard, 1888", providing chapter-by-chapter comprehension, vocabulary, spelling and figurative-language practice plus culminating assessments.
A full novel/book-study unit built around Lauren Tarshis's book "I Survived The Great Chicago Fire, 1871", providing chapter-by-chapter comprehension, vocabulary, spelling and figurative-language practice plus culminating assessments.
A full novel/book-study unit built around Lauren Tarshis's book "I Survived The Great Molasses Flood, 1919", providing chapter-by-chapter comprehension, vocabulary, spelling and figurative-language practice plus culminating assessments.
A reading comprehension worksheet built around a persuasive passage about a fictional car video-calling device (Carocam), designed for use as a substitute-teacher lesson plan or independent reading comprehension/assessment activity.
A full novel/book-study unit built around Lauren Tarshis's book "I Survived The Attack of the Grizzlies, 1967", providing chapter-by-chapter comprehension, vocabulary, spelling and figurative-language practice plus culminating assessments.
A full novel/book-study unit built around Lauren Tarshis's book "I Survived The Attacks of September 11, 2001", providing chapter-by-chapter comprehension, vocabulary, spelling and figurative-language practice plus culminating assessments.
Teach the figurative-language idiom 'it's up to you' through a short reading passage and interactive comprehension practice.
A short early-reading passage paired with a main-idea-and-details graphic organizer, used to practice identifying the main idea and supporting details of a story.
A full novel/book-study unit built around Lauren Tarshis's book "I Survived The Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980", providing chapter-by-chapter comprehension, vocabulary, spelling and figurative-language practice plus culminating assessments.
A guided reading lesson plan for Grade 5, built around the anchor text Matilda by Roald Dahl (Chapter 7: "Miss Honey"), targeting character motivation/inference, vocabulary building, and discussion of resilience and kindness themes.
A color-coded flashcard set covering Dolch sight words across five levels: pre-primer, primer, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade.
Life science reading passages on cells, reproduction and genetics, with comprehension questions to build scientific understanding and test-preparation practice
A full novel/book-study unit built around Lauren Tarshis's book "I Survived The Battle of Gettysburg, 1863", providing chapter-by-chapter comprehension, vocabulary, spelling and figurative-language practice plus culminating assessments.
An interactive, no-prep micro-lesson slide deck that uses an animated short film ('Course of Nature', about a girl and clouds) as a prompt for writing and reading-response practice.
Nonfiction reading-comprehension unit (six short informational articles about insects and spiders) with follow-up comprehension, vocabulary and writing activities for each lesson.
Nonfiction reading-comprehension unit (six short informational articles about insects and spiders) with follow-up comprehension, vocabulary and writing activities for each lesson.
This Guided Reading Book - Badminton (Level P) with lesson plan includes: Guided Reading Color Label (front cover x1) This is a quick way to match the book’s demands to what students can generally handle.. The overall goal is to use the level/color to pick books for several smaller groups. To qualify for a certain level, a student is expected to read a…
A guided-reading lesson plan built around a single chapter of the novel "Holes" by Louis Sachar, focused on comprehension and the theme of perseverance.