World Political Leaders Gr. 5-8
Provide a full Grades 5-8 Social Studies/Government unit ('World Governments Series') with reading comprehension, vocabulary, and critical-thinking activities profiling twelve 20th-century world political leaders.
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Provide a full Grades 5-8 Social Studies/Government unit ('World Governments Series') with reading comprehension, vocabulary, and critical-thinking activities profiling twelve 20th-century world political leaders.
Teach economics vocabulary and concepts (GDP, GDP per capita, human capital) through a nonfiction reading passage about Canada.
Teach 6th-grade social studies students about poverty, the war on drugs, and emigration to the U.S. as social/economic issues affecting Latin America.
A reading-comprehension worksheet packet built around a short nonfiction passage on three US landmarks (White House, Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore), used to practice main idea/key details reading skills.
A reading-and-writing activity that teaches students to explain citizen participation in autocratic versus democratic governments, using the United Kingdom, Germany, and Russia as case studies.
Teach economics vocabulary and concepts (GDP, GDP per capita, human capital) through a nonfiction reading passage about Australia.
A reading packet teaching the causes, key events, and resolution of the War of 1812 for grade 4 social studies.
A reading-and-writing activity teaching students to compare citizen participation in the governments of Brazil, Mexico (democratic) and Cuba (autocratic).
A science reading article teaching students about heart disease -- what it is, causes, signs/symptoms, testing methods, additional complications, treatments, and prevention.
A no-prep reading comprehension and writing companion packet for the picture book 'A New Kind of Wild' by Zara Gonzalez Huang, for use during read-aloud time.
Provide a large daily grammar/language-mechanics review packet (500 sentences, 2,500 corrections) that interweaves U.S. state historical facts, for year-long practice.
A Classroom Complete Press 'Literature Kit' teacher/student resource for Eleanor Estes's Newbery Honor novel 'The Hundred Dresses,' built to develop reading comprehension across Bloom's Taxonomy levels through chapter-by-chapter questions, graphic organizers, vocabulary, and writing tasks, centered on themes of bullying, acceptance, and…
Score narrative writing using four performance levels for sensory description, character thoughts, dialogue, and grammar and style.
A one-to-one reading record sheet for teachers to log which children have been individually heard read each day of the week.
A chapter slice from a 'How to Write a Paragraph' workbook that teaches students to use graphic organizers when drafting a paragraph.
A no-prep, 5-day Kindergarten end-of-school-year ELA packet (teacher guide, student worksheets, and answer key as separate files) combining literacy skill review with reflective/celebratory last-week-of-school activities.
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 no-prep, 5-day Grade 1 end-of-school-year math packet (teacher guide, student worksheets, and answer key as separate files) combining math skill review with reflective/celebratory last-week-of-school activities.
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.
Part 2 of a multisensory, scaffolded reading/writing/spelling program continuing from Part 1, with structured lessons plus a formal pre/post assessment system (sentence dictation, open-ended writing, developmental writing-stage checklist) to measure growth and group students.
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 no-prep, 5-day Grade 3 end-of-school-year math packet (teacher guide, student worksheets, and answer key as separate files) combining math skill review with reflective/celebratory last-week-of-school activities.