Discussions Preparation Activity
A simple graphic-organizer activity to help students prepare for a class discussion by recording main ideas, questions, and interesting points from required reading/material.
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A simple graphic-organizer activity to help students prepare for a class discussion by recording main ideas, questions, and interesting points from required reading/material.
A 7-station lab activity set for high-school-level science students exploring asteroids, comets, and meteors through varied hands-on and reading-based tasks.
An ELA activity that helps students distinguish their own point of view from that of a story's narrator, character, and author using a short included reading passage.
Teach middle-school students how literacy rates affect a country's standard of living, using Canada as the case study, through a reading passage and comprehension activities.
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.
An early-elementary interactive packet teaching basic planet facts through a true/false quiz, a matching activity, individual planet fact pages, and a creative writing prompt.
A test-prep activity that has students read a fiction and a nonfiction text on the same topic and identify genre/text-structure differences, using a teacher-led PowerPoint plus a student-built mini-book, with an optional Google Drive digital version.
A reading-and-response activity built around an excerpt of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, prompting students to reflect on and illustrate their own dream for the world.
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 printable/digital escape-room activity where students solve puzzles and decipher codes tied to Revolutionary War content (framed around a Paul Revere 'midnight ride' scenario), built to a 5th-grade TEKS standard per the file name.
An interactive foldable 'adapted book' teaching the butterfly life cycle and anatomy, paired with labeling worksheets.
Provides blank graphic organizers so students can map the structural relationships (chronology, cause/effect, comparison, main idea/details, problem/solution) within an informational text they are reading.
Teach elementary students about Barack Obama's early life and presidency (first African-American U.S. President) and related social studies/Black history content through informational text and activities.
ESL/EFL exercise set teaching the phrasal verb 'get' (get at, get by, get off, get along/on with, get through, etc.) with reading explanations and practice exercises.
Religious-education emergent reader and activity packet telling the story of Saint Faustina and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy, for early finisher buckets or reading stations.
A 9-station lab/rotation activity reviewing atomic theory, atomic structure, and isotopes, including real-world applications of isotopes.
A reading-and-writing activity that teaches students to explain citizen participation in autocratic versus democratic governments, using the United Kingdom, Germany, and Russia as case studies.
A reading fluency activity using sentence cards and emotion cards to help students practice prosody, phrasing, and inflection beyond simply reading fast.
A 4-activity resource covering Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion, including a kick-off analysis activity, a painting analysis, a map-labeling task, and an extension reading.
An Act 1 reading-comprehension activity packet for GCSE-level study of 'An Inspector Calls', combining a plot/character summary with close-reading questions, a character-quotation table, and biographical/contextual material on JB Priestley.
A 31-activity picture-book companion for 'Three Cheers for Tacky' by Helen Lester, providing print-and-go reading comprehension activities customizable to student needs.
A 30-activity picture-book companion for 'Those Shoes' by Maribeth Boelts, providing print-and-go reading comprehension activities customizable to student needs.
A reading-and-writing activity teaching students to compare citizen participation in the governments of Brazil, Mexico (democratic) and Cuba (autocratic).
This 1.OA.6 First Grade Common Core Lesson is perfect for helping students practice counting on up to 10 using a number line. This is a great resource for teachers who want to help their students succeed in math.