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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.
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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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Comprehension & inferenceVocabulary & language
Reading Comprehension Passages Fiction Set 2 (Fillable PDF)
Give upper-elementary/middle-school students (Grade 6-7) short original fiction passages to read for comprehension, paired with vocabulary and follow-up activities.
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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.
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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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Comprehension & inferenceResponse & discussion
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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Comprehension & inferenceVocabulary & language
Reading Comprehension Passages Fiction Set 2 (PPT)
Give upper-elementary/middle-school students (Grade 6-7) short original fiction passages to read for comprehension, paired with vocabulary and follow-up activities.
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Reading Comprehension Passages Fiction Set 2 (Word)
Give upper-elementary/middle-school students (Grade 6-7) short original fiction passages to read for comprehension, paired with vocabulary and follow-up activities.
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Reading Comprehension Passages Fiction Set 2 (PDF)
Give upper-elementary/middle-school students (Grade 6-7) short original fiction passages to read for comprehension, paired with vocabulary and follow-up activities.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Comprehension & inferenceVocabulary & language
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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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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Reading Comprehension Passages Fiction Set 3 - Food (Fillable PDF)
Give early-elementary students (Grade 2-3) short original fiction passages on food-related topics to read for comprehension, paired with vocabulary and follow-up activities.
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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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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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Bundle of 35 Plays
A large bundle of 35 original scripted plays for grades 1-5, each paired with pre/post-reading class activities, comprehension worksheets, and an answer key, for use in Readers' Theater or classroom drama activities.
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Comprehension & inferenceResponse & discussion
Saskatchewan (#1376)
A nonfiction reading assignment ebook teaching students about the Canadian province of Saskatchewan (symbols, facts, geography, history) while building reading-comprehension strategies.
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The White House Worksheets
Informational worksheet packet teaching facts about the White House (history, layout, current use) with comprehension, timeline, coloring, and letter-writing activities.
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Physical Science SAMPLE Reading Passage: Waves, Light (FILLABLE PDF)
A single-passage sample of a larger fillable reading-passage collection; teaches how color is perceived through reflection, absorption, and refraction of light.
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Phonics & word reading
Tracing Activities
These Tracing Activities are designed to help young learners develop essential fine motor skills, hand eye coordination, and early literacy and numeracy skills in a fun and engaging way. The resource includes a variety of activities such as tracing lines, tracing numbers, tracing letters, matching letters, matching numbers, and color by code (Rainbow…