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An informational reading passage and activity packet teaching about Joseph McCarthy, the Red Scare, and Nikita Khrushchev's role in Cold War tensions including the Cuban Missile Crisis, aligned to a Georgia 5th-grade social studies standard (SS5H5) per the file name.
Introduce students to the Canadian province of Quebec - its symbols, geography, history, economy, and facts - through an informational reading with comprehension questions and a symbols-matching activity.
A reading comprehension activity that has students identify the main idea of a nonfiction passage and record key details that support it.
A back-to-school themed reading comprehension and writing worksheet based on a Harry Potter excerpt (Platform 9 3/4 / journey to Hogwarts scene), for ESL/EFL students.
An ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing resource built around a single nonfiction-style feature article on "the first day of school in different countries around the world (Germany, Poland, Kazakhstan, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Indonesia)", used to build reading comprehension, vocabulary and essay-writing skills.
A cross-curricular ELA reading unit built around an original adventure fiction story (Mission X Series #1 of 50, 'Backs Against the Wall', set at Fort McHenry in Maryland) that teaches figurative language, context clues, main idea, theme, inference, tone, text structures, grammar, Greek/Latin roots, and vocabulary while integrating history, science, and…
Free download A bundle of short original English stories/fables (including at least one classic fable, 'The Lion and the Mouse') each paired with a main-idea-and-details reading-comprehension anchor chart, provided in both a completed worked example and a blank student-practice template.
An ESL/English-language-development worksheet built around the TED Talk "How to start a movement" (speaker per file name: Derek Sivers), used to build listening comprehension, vocabulary, discussion, and writing skills before, during, and after watching the talk.
Develop ESL listening, speaking, and writing skills using a news video about the global response to COVID-19.
A literature packet for teaching Beowulf (Burton Raffel's translation, Books 1-13), combining a warm-up journal, vocabulary and literary-terms activities, close-reading comprehension questions, and a post-reading interview activity.
Support reading comprehension by giving students question-word cards to guide discussion of a topic, helping them ask and answer questions to seek help, get information, or clarify understanding.
An ESL/English-language-development worksheet built around the TED Talk "Looking past limits" (speaker per file name: Caroline Casey), used to build listening comprehension, vocabulary, discussion, and writing skills before, during, and after watching the talk.
An ESL/English-language-development worksheet built around the TED Talk "Less Stuff more happiness" (speaker per file name: Graham Hill), used to build listening comprehension, vocabulary, discussion, and writing skills before, during, and after watching the talk.
An ESL/English-language-development worksheet built around the TED Talk "Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator" (speaker per file name: Tim Urban), used to build listening comprehension, vocabulary, discussion, and writing skills before, during, and after watching the talk.
An ESL/English-language-development worksheet built around the TED Talk "How Language transformed humanity" (speaker per file name: Mark Pagel), used to build listening comprehension, vocabulary, discussion, and writing skills before, during, and after watching the talk.
The test pairs historical, informational and literary passages with forty-five questions. Use the teacher guide and answer explanations to review reasoning after students respond. The skill references can help you identify a focused follow-up lesson.
An ESL/English-language-development worksheet built around the TED Talk "How to stop screwing yourself over" (speaker per file name: Mell Robbins), used to build listening comprehension, vocabulary, discussion, and writing skills before, during, and after watching the talk.
An ESL/English-language-development worksheet built around the TED Talk "Endangered languages why it matters" (speaker per file name: Mandana Seyfeddinipur), used to build listening comprehension, vocabulary, discussion, and writing skills before, during, and after watching the talk.
An ESL/English-language-development worksheet built around the TED Talk "Love no matter what" (speaker per file name: Andrew Solomon), used to build listening comprehension, vocabulary, discussion, and writing skills before, during, and after watching the talk.
An ESL/English-language-development worksheet built around the TED Talk "Immigrant voices make democracy stronger" (speaker per file name: Sayu Bhojwani), used to build listening comprehension, vocabulary, discussion, and writing skills before, during, and after watching the talk.
Free download A set of 12 decodable phonic reading books for practicing consonant-blend words with a short vowel sound (CCVC pattern), intended as a follow-on step after CVC-level reading books.
An ESL/English-language-development worksheet built around the TED Talk "How to make stress your friend" (speaker per file name: Kelly McGonigal), used to build listening comprehension, vocabulary, discussion, and writing skills before, during, and after watching the talk.
An ESL/English-language-development worksheet built around the TED Talk "How Language shapes the way we think" (speaker per file name: Lera Boroditsky), used to build listening comprehension, vocabulary, discussion, and writing skills before, during, and after watching the talk.
An ESL/English-language-development worksheet built around the TED Talk "How to make healthy eating unbelievably easy" (speaker per file name: Luke Durward), used to build listening comprehension, vocabulary, discussion, and writing skills before, during, and after watching the talk.