Novel Study Packet: LYDDIE
A full multi-lesson novel study unit for Katherine Paterson's Lyddie, covering comprehension, vocabulary, figurative language, assessment and writing across all 23 chapters.
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A full multi-lesson novel study unit for Katherine Paterson's Lyddie, covering comprehension, vocabulary, figurative language, assessment and writing across all 23 chapters.
A comprehensive 275-page novel study unit for Kate DiCamillo's 'The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane', covering 14 chapter lessons with comprehension, vocabulary, spelling, writing, and cross-curricular historical-reference content, culminating in a summative test
A research-report packet that guides elementary students through researching and writing a report on volcanoes / a chosen volcano, aligned to Common Core writing and reading-informational-text standards.
Provide a Grade 5 beginning-of-year science diagnostic assessment (48 questions, 121 points) plus scoring/analysis tools, instructional grouping guidance, and targeted follow-up practice pages to move from assessment results to focused reteaching.
Serve as a culminating, multi-day assessment task in which students compose an original chord progression, melody, harmony, and percussion part using Chrome Music Lab Song Maker, scored against a rubric.
A 10-day lesson-plan packet with supporting materials for teaching students to write a structured five-paragraph opinion essay.
A full 64-page writing-skills workbook teaching students in grades 5-8 how to write book reports across multiple formats (fiction, non-fiction, and oral book reports), covering the entire process from understanding what a book report is through prewriting, drafting, and review.
A multi-day lesson plan and materials packet for teaching students to write a 5-paragraph personal narrative essay, aligned to CCSS writing standards.
Chapter-slice reading comprehension unit on the 'Major Figures' of the American Revolutionary War, part of a multi-chapter Classroom Complete Press series (1775-1783).
Provide the Week 1 portion (Prologue through Chapter 5, roughly) of a novel study for Wings of Fire: The Hidden Kingdom (book 3), combining vocabulary instruction with reading comprehension and creative-response practice, as a free sample of the full multi-week packet.
A grade 5-8 social studies "Chapter Slice" excerpt from the Persian Gulf War (1990-1991) teaching unit, focused on the "Victory" chapter.
Step-by-step guided workbook that walks students through the process of researching, planning, drafting, and editing an oral speech, from topic selection through to a final assessed oral presentation.
Give grades 5-8 students a leveled (reading levels 3-4) nonfiction reading-comprehension unit on the single topic "How Climate Change Can Affect Fresh Water" within fresh water conservation, part of Classroom Complete Press's "Conservation: Fresh Water Resources" Climate Change Series (this is a single-chapter 'Chapter Slice' excerpt of the full CCP5773…
Teaches middle/high school students about loans, credit, and borrowing as part of a financial literacy skills unit, using a reading comprehension passage, hands-on activities, vocabulary puzzles, and a quiz.
Provide the Week 1 portion (Prologue through Chapter 4) of a novel study for Wings of Fire: Darkness of Dragons (book 10), combining vocabulary instruction with reading comprehension and literary-response practice, as a free sample of the full multi-week packet.
Chapter-slice teaching resource on "The Senses of Taste and Smell", part of the Classroom Complete Press human-body series "Senses, Nervous System & Respiratory System" (CCP4517-6) for grades 5-8, built around reading comprehension and Bloom's Taxonomy skill levels.
A single-chapter excerpt from the Vietnam War unit focused specifically on "Weapons of the War", teaching that sub-topic through a reading-comprehension passage and skill activities.
A grade 5-8 social studies "Chapter Slice" excerpt from the Persian Gulf War (1990-1991) teaching unit, focused on the "Aftermath" chapter.
Provide the Week 1 portion (Prologue through Chapter 5) of a novel study for Wings of Fire: The Dangerous Gift (book 14), combining vocabulary instruction with reading comprehension and character-analysis practice, as a free sample of the full multi-week packet.
A 64-page compiled teaching resource covering all eight topics of the human senses, nervous system, and respiratory system ('Senses, Nervous System & Respiratory System', Classroom Complete Press, CCP4517) for grades 5-8, built around reading comprehension and Bloom's Taxonomy skill levels.
A flexible, pick-and-choose research-report packet guiding students through researching and writing about the Revolutionary War / American Revolution, with teacher notes on differentiating which pages to assign.
A research-report packet that guides elementary students (grades 2-5) through researching and writing a report on water, aligned to Common Core writing standards.
A guided research-report packet that walks students through researching and writing a report on wind energy.
Provide the Week 1 portion (Prologue through Chapter 6) of a novel study for Wings of Fire: The Dark Secret (book 4), combining vocabulary instruction with reading comprehension and setting-analysis practice, as a free sample of the full multi-week packet.