Unknown Words and Phrases Activity
A graphic-organizer activity for early readers to identify and clarify unknown words and phrases encountered while reading a first-grade-level book.
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Visualizing
A reading-response workbook teaching the comprehension strategy of visualizing, where students draw and write about the mental pictures they form while reading a text of their choice, with built-in self/peer-assessment checklists for each activity.
Argumentative Essay Body Paragraph Practice
A scaffolded, 4-step middle school lesson teaching students to write argumentative essay body paragraphs by reading and analyzing a debate prompt/text before drafting paragraphs, culminating in an assessed writing task, with both printable and digital versions.
SCIENCE FICTION, IMAGINATION AND CREATIVITY
A 40-page activity workbook that guides students through reading, research, and writing tasks to produce their own science fiction stories.
Answers included
BLOOD ON THE RIVER Assessment/Exit Quiz Novel Packet
Assessment/exit-quiz and activity packet accompanying the novel Blood on the River: James Town 1607 (by Elisa Carbone, implied by title/content; author not named in read portion).
Newsela Digital Reading Response Activities
Digital reading-response activity slides that let students choose any high-interest Newsela article and respond to it in writing.
Editable
Daring Donna Does Decimals (9-12 years)
A decimals practice workbook (part of a 'Maths Land School Work Pack' series) using a cartoon character theme to teach reading, ordering, converting and calculating with decimals.
Answers included
Gold Medal Reading Strategies Activity
A reusable reading-strategies graphic organizer set that has students make and check predictions, describe characters and themselves with adjectives, and summarize using any grade-level text.
First Grade Informational Texts Activity
A set of activity cards listing specific real informational/nonfiction book titles to guide first graders' selection of grade-appropriate informational texts for a reading exercise.
7th Grade Science Diagnostic Assessment & Review System
A beginning-of-year Grade 7 science diagnostic assessment and complete Assess-Analyze-Group-Review-Reteach system: a 50-item diagnostic measuring prior-year retention across life, physical, and Earth science plus scientific reading/reasoning skills, paired with scoring/analysis tools, targeted follow-up practice, and full explained answer keys.
Answers included
Why Do We Laugh? Interactive Listening Activity
An ESL interactive listening activity built around a news-style video about why people laugh, developing listening strategies, new vocabulary, and comprehension/discussion skills.
Using New Words From Books Activity
A vocabulary-building activity where students collect new words and phrases encountered while reading and use them in their own writing.
Rocky IV (1985): A Cold War Study Activity & Complete Movie Guide
A Cold War history study activity combined with a viewing guide for the 1985 film Rocky IV, using the movie to illustrate American attitudes and Cold War-era propaganda.
The Old Woman Who Named Things Read Aloud Book Companion Activities
A companion activity packet to accompany a read-aloud of the picture book The Old Woman Who Named Things, giving students printable reading-response tasks tied to the story.
Substitute Survival Kit
A ready-to-print, two-day set of substitute lesson plans spanning reading, math, writing, STEM, spelling, and language, plus classroom-info sheets, so a teacher can leave a full day's activities without advance prep.
Samuel Pepys' Diary and The Plague
A two-page history activity booklet using excerpts from Samuel Pepys' diary to teach about daily life in London during the Great Plague of 1665-1666 and primary-source historical analysis.
Math Practice Simplified K - Tables & Graphs
Practice workbook on reading, interpreting, and creating tables and graphs, plus lessons on statistics (mean, median, mode, range) and probability.
Answers included
Can You Tell Us More? Speaking and Listening Activity
Speaking and listening practice activity where students ask and answer questions to clarify comprehension and gather more information about a topic.
Characters Sketch Activity
Reading-response activity using a provided short story to have students describe a character in depth, citing evidence from the text.
Unraveling the Plague: An Immersive 8-Page Resource Booklet
Take students through a multi-activity booklet on the Great Plague of London: image identification, primary-source reading, and short-answer worksheets on causes, symptoms, containment measures, and the roles of different people during the plague.
TASK STRIPS: FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS
TASK STRIPS: FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS A versatile teaching resource designed to elevate the learning experience for both educators and students alike. Spanning 20 pages and featuring 60 individual task cards, this set provides an abundant amount of educational activities. Supports language conception activities. Boosts expression practices. Assists with…
Vocabulary sheets: Verbs volume 4
Independent work booklet teaching a fourth set of action-verb vocabulary, including physical/bodily verbs, through a series of literacy and critical-thinking activities.
Unknown Words Activity
A graphic-organizer activity for beginning readers to identify and ask/answer questions about unknown words encountered while reading a book.
"Strawberry Girl" Novel Study
Chapter-by-chapter novel study supporting reading comprehension and discussion of the book Strawberry Girl.