How to Write a Paragraph: Using Graphic Organizers for Drafting
A chapter slice from a 'How to Write a Paragraph' workbook that teaches students to use graphic organizers when drafting a paragraph.
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A chapter slice from a 'How to Write a Paragraph' workbook that teaches students to use graphic organizers when drafting a paragraph.
A Classroom Complete Press 'Literature Kit' teacher/student resource for Sharon Bell Mathis's novel 'The Hundred Penny Box,' built to develop reading comprehension across Bloom's Taxonomy levels through section-by-section questions, graphic organizers, vocabulary, and writing tasks, centered on respecting age and valuing life experience.
A step-by-step narrative writing practice unit that scaffolds students through analyzing a sample narrative, planning, drafting, self-editing, and timed writing practice to prepare for state writing tests (e.g. STAAR, FSA).
A multi-file distance-learning/homeschool chemistry pack teaching mixtures, solutions, dissolving, suspensions, and saturated solutions via an animated PowerPoint, worksheets, and a photocopiable lesson.
A large, 175-page novel-study/assessment unit for Bud, Not Buddy providing chapter-by-chapter comprehension worksheets, vocabulary games, quizzes, and a summative test.
Teaches how shadows form (umbra/penumbra) and how lunar and solar eclipses (total, partial, penumbral, annular) occur, as a self-directed distance-learning middle-school physics pack.
A comprehensive 5th-6th grade novel study/assessment unit for the book Flush by Carl Hiaasen, with a worksheet, vocabulary page, and quiz for every chapter plus a summative test.
A distance-learning/homeschool pack for middle school teaching the kinetic theory of matter and the three states of matter (solid, liquid, gas) via an animated PowerPoint, worksheets, and printable activities.
A 98-page reference book of research-based assessment checklists for teachers, covering student project/work assessment across subject areas, classroom management, parent communication, and grant/proposal writing.
Provide a full 17-lesson novel study unit for Lois Lowry's 'Number the Stars' covering comprehension, vocabulary (context clues), homophones, figurative language, main idea, citing textual evidence, and spelling, culminating in summative assessments
A distance-learning/homeschool science resource teaching middle school students about white light, dispersion, and color filters, including how colored objects interact with light.
A comprehension, vocabulary, and assessment novel study unit for Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, covering all 15 chapters with worksheets, quizzes, vocabulary practice, and summary/main-idea writing instruction.
A Classroom Complete Press Literature Kit (Gr. 5-6) for the novel 'Among the Hidden' by Margaret Peterson Haddix, providing a full unit of chapter-by-chapter comprehension questions, vocabulary, writing tasks, a word search, a comprehension quiz, graphic organizers, and an answer key, organized around Bloom's Taxonomy…
Support a class reading of Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet with activities that revisit comprehension, vocabulary, and written responses. Chapter materials and quizzes give you ways to check understanding as students follow Brian’s experiences. Select from reflection prompts, vocabulary practice, and later assessments to fit your teaching sequence. The existing vocabulary worksheet link offers a separate vocabulary resource alongside this novel unit.
A year-long bundle of daily spiral math review worksheets and weekly quizzes for 4th grade, aligned to Virginia math standards, for morning work, homework, test prep, or math centers.
Provide a comprehensive 26-chapter comprehension, vocabulary, and assessment unit for the novel 'Because of Winn-Dixie' by Kate DiCamillo, including daily worksheets, exit quizzes, a summative test, vocabulary games, and writing/poster prompts.
A reading comprehension and science quiz with an answer key, based on a named source article ('Killer Caterpillar,' Creation Magazine Vol 40 No. 3, 2018) about carnivorous caterpillars, framed within a young-earth creationist (biblical Creation/Fall) explanation of how carnivory could have arisen in previously herbivorous animals.
A comprehensive novel study/assessment unit for 'The Lemonade War' by Jacqueline Davies, teaching comprehension, vocabulary, and standards-based reading skills chapter by chapter.
Plan and write a country report using guided sections for geography, history, and culture. Research-record templates help students track sources, while an editing checklist and rubric support revision. Teacher notes, illustration pages, and additional writing space provide a structure for developing the report from collected facts.
Teach one chapter -- "The Skeletal System - Joints & Cartilage" -- of the human anatomy unit "Cells, Skeletal System & Muscular System" to grades 5-8 students, using a reading-comprehension passage, activities, and assessment for that topic only.
A 65-page comprehension/assessment novel study unit for Judy Blume's 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing,' by TrilogyTeacher, providing per-chapter worksheets, vocabulary activities, exit quizzes, a writing/art component, and a summative test with answer keys.
A large (270-page) comprehension, assessment, and novel study unit for Tuck Everlasting organized into 12 two-chapter lessons, covering comprehension, vocabulary, figurative language, discussion, and writing.
Digital interactive-slides review and self-grading quizzes covering the full set of CCSS 5th-grade Math standards, bundling separate slide decks and quizzes across all five domains: Operations and Algebraic Thinking (5.OA.1-3), Number and Operations in Base Ten (5.NBT.1-7), Number and Operations - Fractions (5.NF.1-7), Measurement and…
Single-chapter 'slice' of the Classroom Complete Press 'Atoms, Molecules & Elements' unit (CCP4505), focused on 'What Are Atoms?', for grades 5-8: a reading comprehension passage plus supporting hands-on activity, crossword, word search, quiz, and answer key.