Vietnam War: Background and Causes Gr. 5-8
A teacher-guide resource covering the background and causes of the Vietnam War (1955-1975), with reading comprehension passages, hands-on activities, and assessments for grades 5-8.
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A teacher-guide resource covering the background and causes of the Vietnam War (1955-1975), with reading comprehension passages, hands-on activities, and assessments for grades 5-8.
A multi-day lesson plan and materials packet for teaching students to write a 5-paragraph personal narrative essay, aligned to CCSS writing standards.
Reproducible chapter excerpt ("Chapter Slice") from the workbook "How to Write a Book Report" (CCP1101), covering the sub-topic "Proofreading Practice" for teaching students the elements and process of writing a book report.
A set of graphic organizers and writing scaffolds that guide students through choosing a classic fairy tale and rewriting it as their own 'fractured' (twisted) version.
Reading-comprehension teaching resource on classification and adaptation, focused on the sub-topic 'What Do We Classify?' (chapter 1 of 8 in the CCP4501 series), combining background reading, hands-on activities, and assessment pieces per the resource's table of contents.
A scaffolded packet guiding students through researching and writing a 5-paragraph MLA-style research essay on an Olympic athlete.
Walk a student step by step through the process of writing an informative research essay, from choosing a topic through sourcing, drafting each paragraph, and assembling/revising the final essay.
Reproducible chapter excerpt ("Chapter Slice") from the workbook "How to Write a Paragraph" (CCP1100), covering the sub-topic "Drafting Practice" (page 28 of the full 64-page workbook, per that workbook's table of contents) for teaching the paragraph-writing process.
Reading-comprehension teaching resource on classification and adaptation, focused on the sub-topic 'Evolution and the Fossil Record' (chapter 8 of 8 in the CCP4501 series), combining background reading, hands-on activities, and assessment pieces per the resource's table of contents.
Reproducible chapter excerpt ("Chapter Slice") from the workbook "How to Write a Book Report" (CCP1101), covering the sub-topic "What is a Book Report?" for teaching students the elements and process of writing a book report.
Provides a leveled nonfiction reading-comprehension passage, vocabulary practice, hands-on/writing activities, and assessment materials on "Lowering Your Greenhouse Gas Emissions", as one chapter slice of the Classroom Complete Press Climate Change: Reduction series for grades 5-8.
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…
Reproducible chapter excerpt ("Chapter Slice") from the workbook "How to Write an Essay" (CCP1102), covering "Revising, Proofreading and Editing" (page 40 of the full 64-page workbook, per that workbook's table of contents), part of a resource built on a five-step writing model.
Assess third-grade narrative, opinion, and informative writing with rubrics and student checklists. Choose the narrative rubric for story writing.
Reading-comprehension teaching resource on classification and adaptation, focused on the sub-topic 'Formal Classification' (chapter 2 of 8 in the CCP4501 series), combining background reading, hands-on activities, and assessment pieces per the resource's table of contents.
Assess fifth-grade narrative, opinion, and informative writing with rubrics and student checklists. Choose the narrative rubric for story writing.
Three writing rubric sets — narrative , informative, and opinion — each pair a student-facing checklist describing what an 'excellent' response looks like across four or five traits with a five-point teacher grading guideline spelling out the difference between an 'Excellent' and a 'Needs Improvement' response, trait by trait. Each set includes scorecards with rating and comment spaces in bordered and unbordered layouts. Check and adapt the narrative and opinion scorecard headings to match the respective rubric before grading. All three rubrics use a consistent 1-5 scale (Excellent, Good, Satisfactory, Needs Improvement, Inadequate) but trait definitions and counts differ across the three genres.
Full 64-page workbook "How to Write an Essay" (CCP1102) teaching essay writing across descriptive, narrative, informative, and persuasive essay types, plus prewriting, drafting, revising, proofreading and editing, through 12 sequential reading-comprehension/worksheet chapters.
Provides a leveled nonfiction reading-comprehension passage, vocabulary practice, hands-on/writing activities, and assessment materials on "Earth's Climate", as one chapter slice of the Classroom Complete Press Climate Change: Effects series for grades 5-8.
Full-unit teaching resource covering classification and animal adaptation, combining eight reading-comprehension topics with hands-on activities and assessment pieces, per the resource's table of contents.
A single-chapter excerpt ('Coping with Life') from the 'Real World Life Skills: Self-Sustainability Skills' resource (grades 6-12+), combining a reading-comprehension passage with related vocabulary and assessment activities.
Teach reading comprehension, vocabulary, and critical-thinking skills using a biography/profile of Margaret Thatcher (United Kingdom) as one chapter of the 'World Political Leaders' World Governments Series unit.
Provides a leveled nonfiction reading-comprehension passage, vocabulary practice, hands-on/writing activities, and assessment materials on "Sea Level Changes", as one chapter slice of the Classroom Complete Press Climate Change: Effects series for grades 5-8.
Reading-comprehension teaching resource on classification and adaptation, focused on the sub-topic 'A Case Study: The Koala and Its Adaptations' (chapter 7 of 8 in the CCP4501 series), combining background reading, hands-on activities, and assessment pieces per the resource's table of contents.