California Mission Unit
A CLOSE reading unit teaching the history and role of California missions through nonfiction reading passages, vocabulary, and graphic organizers for grade 4 social studies.
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A CLOSE reading unit teaching the history and role of California missions through nonfiction reading passages, vocabulary, and graphic organizers for grade 4 social studies.
A blank one-page graphic organizer for mapping the key elements of a story (title, characters, setting, problem, solution).
Help history students organize, take notes on, and review key facts about major world religions in a sorting/graphic organizer format
A no-prep reading and worksheet packet teaching students about the life of Booker T. Washington for social studies/reading instruction.
A step-by-step opinion writing unit built around researching US First Ladies, using 'would you rather' prompts to scaffold research-based opinion essays
A picture-book companion of print-and-go response activities for the book Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreño Played the Piano for President Lincoln, used before/during/after a read-aloud.
Introduce the packet’s five-seven-five approach to haiku through a nature-themed model, then let students gather ideas and draft three lines. Syllable-labeled planning pages offer support before learners move to open writing layouts. Finished-poem templates include a byline, providing a place to present a revised version after reading it aloud and checking the intended syllable counts.
A full-day, ready-to-use substitute teacher plan for a 3rd-grade class on the theme of storms and storm safety, integrating reading, science, writing, and math.
A short early-reading passage paired with a main-idea-and-details graphic organizer, used to practice identifying the main idea and supporting details of a story.
A meme-based graphic organizer activity for connecting popular meme templates to any piece of literature (short story, novel, play, or historical text) being studied.
Interpret sayings presented in a Benjamin Franklin activity and connect them with biographical research. Students translate eighteen entries into modern language, write two sayings of their own, and organize information about Franklin. Sample interpretations and teacher directions support discussion without requiring every student response to use identical wording.
Provides a print-and-go reading packet teaching how colonial life differed across social groups (large landowners, farmers, artisans, women, children, indentured servants, enslaved people, and American Indians).
A 5-day homeschool/co-op unit study on great white sharks combining video-based instruction, reading, and graphic-organizer worksheets covering shark facts, life cycle, habitat and ocean conservation.
Introduce free verse with the reference poster, then use the supplied writing pages to help students draft a poem in their own voice. Several organizer and lined-page choices give you options for planning and recording ideas. Invite students to read a draft aloud and consider where line breaks help communicate its meaning.
A multi-part butterfly/insect unit combining nonfiction close-reading passages, vocabulary work, a research report, and graphic organizers to build reading comprehension and content knowledge about butterfly biology and life cycle.
A comprehensive Social Studies teaching unit on Native Americans and early peoples of North America, combining guided/close reading passages with comprehension and vocabulary activities.
Provide a blank graphic-organizer template for planning a 'how-to' (procedural) writing piece.
A set of digital (or print) graphic-organizer writing templates giving students cause-and-effect writing prompts across 10 varied topics, each supported by a word bank.
Differentiated reading packet teaching Georgia's role in the Civil War (Sherman's campaigns, the Battle of Chickamauga, capture of Atlanta, Andersonville Prison, the Union blockade) via two leveled passages and comprehension activities.
A comprehensive reading-comprehension companion packet of activities to accompany Laurie Wallmark's picture book biography 'Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code,' covering story elements, character analysis, and theme.
Give teachers a large set of print-and-go reading-comprehension activities to use alongside a read-aloud of the picture book Brave Irene by William Steig.
A 14-activity compare-and-contrast unit about polar bears and penguins, covering reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing, map skills, and hands-on tasks.
A comprehensive nonfiction "CLOSE Reading" literacy unit on weather (topics: what weather is, the water cycle, clouds, types of weather, meteorology/forecasting) with supporting vocabulary, comprehension, and writing activities.
A simple graphic-organizer activity to help students prepare for a class discussion by recording main ideas, questions, and interesting points from required reading/material.