Homework Masters - Years 1 and 2
Provide a flexible, ready-to-use set of daily cross-curricular homework activities (Stage 1) for teachers to assign, covering maths, handwriting, language, and social/environmental topics.
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Sammy Snake and His Good Friend Sally Spider eBook by Jeanette Vuuren
An illustrated story ebook (fiction narrative with embedded nonfiction facts) about a friendship between Sammy Snake and Sally Spider, teaching snake facts (vertebrates, senses, shedding skin, teeth/fangs) alongside literacy skills like vocabulary and reading comprehension.
Mental Health: How Are You Feeling?
An introduction to mental health literacy for primary/grade 1 students, connecting physical health habits (exercise, healthy eating) to keeping the brain/mind healthy, recognizing signs of positive vs negative mental health, and learning coping strategies.
Writing Our Lives: A Memoir Unit
Provide a multi-week (4-5 week), standards-aligned unit guiding middle/high school students through reading mentor texts and writing their own memoir/personal narrative.
COOPERATION BEHAVIOR, Working and Playing in a Group, Differentiated Activities For K-5th
Social-emotional/behavior resource teaching students to distinguish cooperative from uncooperative behavior when working or playing in a group, differentiated for K-2nd and 3rd-5th grades.
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What Is a Legend? – 3 Description Posters
Description posters explaining what a 'legend' is as a literary genre, contrasted against its typical features and example legends.
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21st Century Skills in the Classroom
Explain the 21st Century Skills framework (Learning Skills/4 Cs and Literacy Skills/IMT, among other categories) for teachers to integrate into classroom instruction.
Back to School Digital Citizenship & Online Safety Activities Grades 6
A set of short reading scenarios teaching digital citizenship and online safety concepts, paired with comprehension questions.
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The screws (#1551)
A nonfiction reading-comprehension worksheet set teaching students about screws as simple machines (how they work, their parts, and related tools like screwdrivers and bolts).
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Sherpas in Nepal: Social Studies Reading Comprehension Passage (PDF)
A social studies/ELA reading comprehension passage about the Sherpa people of Nepal, their culture, and their role as Himalayan mountain guides, with comprehension, vocabulary and summary questions.
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Sherpas in Nepal: Social Studies Reading Comprehension Passage (Word)
A social studies/ELA reading comprehension passage about the Sherpa people of Nepal, their culture, and their role as Himalayan mountain guides, with comprehension, vocabulary and summary questions.
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Egyptians Comprehension Series | Episode 5: Cleopatra | Audiobook
Teach students about Cleopatra's life, rule, and death through an audiobook episode, accompanying eBook text, and comprehension questions, as episode 5 of 'The Age of the Egyptians' series.
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Pizza Box Homework Kit
A take-home literacy/math homework kit (assembled by the teacher) built around a pizza theme, sent home with one student at a time.
Kids Yoga Stories: Monthly Chair Yoga Themes
A 44-page, 12-month chair-yoga book providing a themed 5-pose seated (chair-adapted) yoga sequence for each month, each paired with 5 recommended companion children's books on that month's topic.
Reading Comprehension Passage Sunita Williams in Space - Grades 8-12
A single informational reading-comprehension passage and question set (sub-plan format) about astronaut Sunita Williams' 2024 mission aboard the Boeing Starliner and daily life in space, for grades 8-12.
Explorers of the Interior region (#1085)
A nonfiction reading-comprehension packet about Alexander Mackenzie and Simon Fraser's exploration of Canada's interior region, teaching close reading and reading-strategy skills.
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Wheels and axles (#1550)
A nonfiction reading assignment teaching students about wheels and axles as simple machines.
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Fact vs. Opinion, Expertise, Scientific Method: A Deep-Dive into Critical Thinking
An editable 14-slide presentation teaching high-school students to distinguish fact from opinion, covering clue words/verbs for each, misinformation, the scientific method/expertise, the historical evolution of how knowledge has been validated, and media-literacy/critical-thinking implications.
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Television + Space Exploration Reading Packet
A reading-comprehension packet on the growth of television and the US-Soviet space race in the mid-20th century, written at a 900 Lexile level for 5th-grade social studies.
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Sherpas in Nepal: Social Studies Reading Passage (Fillable PDF)
A social studies/ELA reading comprehension passage about the Sherpa people of Nepal, their culture, and their role as Himalayan mountain guides, with comprehension, vocabulary and summary questions, in a fillable PDF format.
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Ontario (#1380)
A nonfiction reading-comprehension booklet teaching students facts about the Canadian province of Ontario (geography, history, industries, First Nations) through a reading-strategies workflow.
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New Brunswick (#1373)
Build nonfiction reading comprehension skills (predicting, prior knowledge, text structure, main idea) using an informational text about the Canadian province of New Brunswick.
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You Get What You Get | Book Companion Activities | Digital Book Study
A digital micro-learning book companion/study deck for the story 'You Get What You Get,' building reading comprehension skills through read-aloud, sequencing, story elements, and summarizing activities.
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Free download Physical Science SAMPLE Reading Passage: Electricity (FILLABLE PDF)
A single-passage sample of a larger fillable reading-passage collection; teaches how electricity is generated (generators, steam from fossil fuels or nuclear heat, hydropower, wind, solar) with comprehension questions.
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