Where the Red Fern Grows – Novel Study Unit
A comprehensive novel study unit for Where the Red Fern Grows covering chapter-by-chapter comprehension, vocabulary, writing, and summative assessment.
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A comprehensive novel study unit for Where the Red Fern Grows covering chapter-by-chapter comprehension, vocabulary, writing, and summative assessment.
A literature study kit for teaching Norton Juster's novel The Phantom Tollbooth, organized around comprehension, vocabulary, and critical-thinking activities keyed to Bloom's Taxonomy.
A novel study unit guiding students through comprehension, vocabulary, and writing activities for the novel Esperanza Rising.
A 48-page SATs-style reading comprehension practice booklet for ages 9-12, containing three texts (a play script, a narrative, and at least one more) with graded, marks-based comprehension question sets modeled on UK KS2 Reading Assessment sample papers.
UK-style close reading comprehension practice papers (themed 'Changes') for 9-12 year olds, modeled on KS2 SATs reading assessment format, with three fiction/non-fiction texts and mark-scheme style questions.
A reading comprehension worksheet built around a persuasive passage about a fictional car video-calling device (Carocam), designed for use as a substitute-teacher lesson plan or independent reading comprehension/assessment activity.
A reading-comprehension teaching resource focused on distinguishing facts from opinions, built as a 'Chapter Slice' from a Classroom Complete Press workbook, with a Teacher Guide, reproducible student worksheets, and an answer key.
A reading-comprehension teaching resource focused on using context clues, determining main idea, and understanding inference, built as a 'Chapter Slice' from a Classroom Complete Press workbook, with a Teacher Guide, reproducible student worksheets, and an answer key.
A single-chapter slice ('Main Idea') from the Classroom Complete Press Reading Skills Series (CC1116) workbook, teaching students to identify the main idea of a text as a foundational comprehension strategy.
A reading comprehension article that introduces high-school students to genetics and gene therapy concepts (DNA, genes, heredity, genetic disorders, gene therapy, genetic screening) and tests understanding with follow-up questions.
Teaches critical-thinking and reading comprehension skills, specifically using graphic organizers to make inferences and identify main ideas, structured around Bloom's Taxonomy.
A history/reading-comprehension resource that teaches the story of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot in England through narrative text, primary-source extracts from Father John Gerard's historical account, and a sequence of comprehension, vocabulary, and critical-thinking activities.
A 'Chapter Slice' teacher resource (excerpted from a larger Classroom Complete Press Reading Comprehension guide) that teaches reading comprehension strategies, with a focus on skills such as using graphic organizers to identify main ideas and sequencing, for grades 5-8.
A Remembrance Day informational reading passage paired with pre/post discussion questions, comprehension questions, vocabulary matching, a crossword, and a word search.
Reading comprehension worksheet built around a nonfiction passage giving ten tips for staying germ-free during the school year.
A year-long Grade 9 financial literacy curriculum combining daily nonfiction reading passages with personal-finance concepts to build reading comprehension, vocabulary, and analytical writing.
A reading comprehension worksheet built around a short narrative story ('A Broken Leg', about a boy who breaks his leg after jumping off swings against the rules) to test literal comprehension.
A reading comprehension worksheet built around a short narrative story ('A Day at the Beach', about a boy named Tyler who rescues a new friend, Gary, from trouble in the water) to test literal comprehension.
A science reading passage explaining what allergies are, how the immune system reacts, and types of allergic reactions (including anaphylaxis), with comprehension questions for grades 5-7.
An informational reading passage teaching students about concussions (definition, history, symptoms, testing, treatment, complications, and prevention) paired with comprehension questions.
Provide an informational reading passage about smallpox (history, symptoms, transmission, treatment, prevention) paired with comprehension questions.
A multi-novel reading comprehension unit built around five short, high-interest/low-vocabulary ghost-themed novels, giving teachers flexible whole-class, individualized, small-group, or listening-test approaches with comprehension, vocabulary, and writing activities plus answer keys for each title.
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 published reading-skills workbook (Classroom Complete Press, Reading Skills Series, CC1116) teaching core reading comprehension strategies to grades 5-8 students.