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Teach students about Progressive Era "muckraker" journalists (Lincoln Steffens, Jacob Riis, Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair) and the reforms their investigative writing helped bring about.
A no-prep social-studies reading packet teaching grade-2 students how historical figures connected to Georgia adapted to their environments (Georgia standard SS2G2b, per file name), covering Creek Indians, Cherokee Indians, James Oglethorpe, Tomochichi, and Mary Musgrove.
A differentiated, no-prep reading packet teaching Georgia history content about Richard B. Russell Jr. and Carl Vinson's economic contributions to Georgia, using two versions of the same passage (on-level and below-level) with matching reading-skills worksheets.
End-of-year graphic organizer for students to reflect on and record their favorite school memory, teacher, and reading, provided in both Canadian/British and American spelling versions.
A social studies reading packet on the history of slavery in Latin America, covering European colonization, the decline of indigenous populations, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, for use as a print-and-go classroom resource.
A social studies biography reading packet teaching 2nd graders about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, aligned to a Georgia history standard (SS2H1d).
An informational reading packet teaching the structure of Georgia's state government (executive, legislative, and judicial branches, including the governor's role), for 3rd-grade social studies/government instruction.
A phonics activity that teaches syllable counting and syllable division using an original song-lyric passage reviewing the Moana movie as the reading text.
Use the relief, recovery and reform sections to organize research on responses to the Great Depression. A two-page reference accompanies a two-page partly completed student organizer. Review the reference before use: its fifteen entries include the later FAA, and the AAA and FHA names need correction. Students can check the supplied examples against reliable historical sources before completing the remaining spaces.
Read about six physical features of Georgia using two versions of the passage, including a version with side prompts. Students complete matching and comprehension tasks, write about economic importance, complete a chart and label a map. Exit tickets and supplied answer pages support checking. The included chart supports graphic organizers work. The packet fits a middle-school Georgia studies lesson; preview the reading demands before assigning it.
A single-page, text-agnostic graphic organizer for responding to any nonfiction article or book, prompting students to record the main idea, key facts, and their own conclusions/opinion.
Teach students about specialization, mass production, and standard of living (using Henry Ford/Model T as an example) through a nonfiction reading passage on specialization and trade/economics.
A reusable graphic organizer teaching students to make inferences ('reading between the lines') by combining textual evidence with prior knowledge, usable with any book.
Teach 6th-grade students how literacy rates affect standard of living, using Brazil, Cuba, and Mexico as case studies, through a reading passage and comprehension activities.
Teaches compare-and-contrast reading skills by having students compare Disney's movie version of Mulan with the traditional Chinese folktale, using a song passage.
A reading-comprehension packet on 19th-century technological advancements in Georgia (the cotton gin and the railroad), covering their economic impact including the expansion of slavery.
A read-aloud book companion for Andrea Cheng's 'Grandfather Counts' providing reading comprehension activities covering prediction, story elements, sequencing, inference, cause and effect, character analysis, theme, and text-to-self connections.
Teach middle-school students how literacy rates affect a country's standard of living, using Canada as the case study, through a reading passage and comprehension activities.
Provide small-group/individual reading-skill intervention materials for students who are still struggling with specific reading comprehension skills after initial instruction, covering ten skills: Author's Purpose, Cause and Effect, Character, Context Clues, Inference, Main Idea, Point of View, Sequence, Summary, and Text Features.
Teaches students the causes and key events leading up to the American Revolutionary War through a reading passage and follow-up activities.
Teaches students to critically evaluate news sources for credibility using five assessment categories (author, publisher, sources, facts, bias).
A reading passage and worksheet packet teaching students about the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and the five freedoms it protects.
An economics reading packet teaching how capital investment and GDP per capita measure a country's economic strength, using Australia as the example.
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.