Transcontinental Railroad Reading Packet
A social studies reading packet teaching students about the Transcontinental Railroad and its impact on U.S. travel and history.
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A social studies reading packet teaching students about the Transcontinental Railroad and its impact on U.S. travel and history.
A novel study guide for Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Black Cat, providing vocabulary, comprehension, critical thinking, and graphic organizer activities tied to the text.
Digital micro-learning slide deck teaching state facts and geography about Mississippi through video, text, and interactive elements.
No-prep reading and writing packet teaching 1930s American cultural history through an informative passage and vocabulary application.
A reading passage and worksheet packet teaching 3rd-grade students how different American Indian tribes adapted their lifestyles (food, clothing, shelter) to their regional environments.
Teach a reading passage and vocabulary about entrepreneurship, profit incentive, and the private vs. public sectors of the economy, using Georgia-based entrepreneur examples (aligned to Georgia standard SS8E2/SS8E2a per the source filename).
Differentiated nonfiction reading packet teaching how the 14th Amendment, Jim Crow laws, and desegregation (Brown v. Board of Education) played out in Georgia history.
A social studies reading packet teaching students about Georgia's transportation systems (road, air, water, rail) and their impact on the state economy.
Teach students about the history, geography, and importance of the Panama Canal through a reading passage and comprehension activities.
Teach middle school students about the history of Apartheid in South Africa through an informational reading passage.
A graphic organizer that guides intermediate students step-by-step through selecting a meaningful quote from a novel and drafting a structured reading response, as an introductory skill toward using textual evidence in longer essays.
A differentiated social studies reading packet on slavery and states'-rights issues in Georgia leading up to and during the Civil War, for use as a print-and-go classroom resource.
A reading packet teaching 3rd-grade students about the roles and responsibilities of the U.S. federal government's three branches (executive, legislative, judicial).
Build Grade 5 students' understanding of how the expansion of slavery led to sectionalism, states'-rights disputes, and the Civil War, through a reading passage paired with comprehension and vocabulary activities.
A reading packet teaching elementary students about representative democracy, paired with a Google Slides/Google Forms digital version for distance learning.
An informational reading packet explaining the European 'scramble for Africa,' the 1884 Berlin Conference, and how European partitioning of Africa's ethnic and cultural boundaries led to lasting conflict (e.g., the Nigerian Civil War, the Rwandan Genocide, civil wars in South Sudan), aligned to a Georgia Studies standard (SS7H1a per…
No-prep science activity packet teaching young students about meteorologists, weather forecasting, weather maps, and weather vocabulary.
A one-page, text-agnostic close-reading graphic organizer that guides students through analyzing subgenre, author's purpose, personal connections, tone, text features, and text structure of any nonfiction text they are given.
A differentiated reading and comprehension packet on Georgia's role in World War II (training facilities, the Bell Bomber Plant, and shipyards), for social studies or reading instruction.
Teach 6th-grade social studies students how literacy rates affect a country's standard of living, using Europe as the case study, through a reading passage and comprehension activities.
A phonics activity that teaches syllable counting and syllable division using an original nonfiction song-lyric passage on the history of breaking (breakdancing) as the reading text.
A differentiated reading packet teaching the Reconstruction era in Georgia, including the three Reconstruction plans and the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
A close-reading and writing activity teaching students to describe German aggression in Europe and Japanese aggression in Asia leading up to World War II, built around an 800-Lexile informational passage.
Teach middle-school students how literacy rates affect a country's standard of living, using Australia as the case study, through a reading passage and comprehension activities.