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"The Watcher" Jane Goodall Biography Book Companion Activities teaching resource preview
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"The Watcher" Jane Goodall Biography Book Companion Activities

Complete a wide range of activities tied to the book: make predictions, identify story elements, summarize using a graphic organizer, analyze cause/effect and problem/solution, build a timeline, analyze character traits/development/perspective, determine theme, answer reader-response questions, solve vocabulary crossword and word search…

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Among the Hidden - Literature Kit Gr. 5-6 teaching resource preview
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Among the Hidden - Literature Kit Gr. 5-6

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…

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Art: A Full Day of Activities About Art and Artists teaching resource preview
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Art: A Full Day of Activities About Art and Artists

Students complete a morning message, independently read and write reader-response forms, read about and answer comprehension questions on artists (Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso) and research another artist using a graphic organizer, complete math problems (dividing/subtracting/multiplying whole numbers) while filling in a…

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Wings of Fire: Moon Rising Week 1 Freebie teaching resource preview Free download
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Wings of Fire: Moon Rising Week 1 Freebie

Provide the Week 1 portion (Prologue through Chapter 3) of a novel study for Wings of Fire: Moon Rising (book 6), combining vocabulary instruction with reading comprehension and point-of-view analysis practice, as a free sample of the full multi-week packet.

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Heroes: Full Day Substitute Plans teaching resource preview
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Heroes: Full Day Substitute Plans

Complete morning/afternoon 'get acquainted' group messages, read independently and complete reader response papers, read comprehension passages about historical/real-life/fictional heroes and research/write about a chosen hero using graphic organizers, practice sign language and braille letters, keep an interactive Hero Journal, put…

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Wings of Fire: Darkness of Dragons Week 1 Freebie teaching resource preview Free download
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Wings of Fire: Darkness of Dragons Week 1 Freebie

Following a 5-day pacing guide, students read the Prologue and Chapters 1-4, learn Week 1 vocabulary and complete a vocabulary quiz, answer Prologue and chapter comprehension questions, and complete response worksheets: setting (draw and explain), backstory (create an original character), foreshadowing reading response, a context-clues…

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Ships and Shipwrecks: Full Day Substitute Plans teaching resource preview
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Ships and Shipwrecks: Full Day Substitute Plans

Students complete morning/afternoon message activities, independent reading with reader-response forms, reading comprehension passages and questions about historical shipwrecks (Titanic, Andrea Doria, Sultana, Edmund Fitzgerald), a compare/contrast writing task, a data graphing/analysis activity, a math-computation board game, a…

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Great Explorers: Full Day Substitute Plans teaching resource preview
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Great Explorers: Full Day Substitute Plans

Complete morning/afternoon group message worksheets, independently read and fill out reader-response forms, read and answer comprehension questions about historical/space/ocean explorers, use a graphic organizer to research and write about another explorer, write about an imaginary island exploration, complete an exploration timeline,…

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Wings of Fire: The Dark Secret Week 1 Freebie teaching resource preview Free download
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Wings of Fire: The Dark Secret Week 1 Freebie

Students learn Week 1 vocabulary and complete a vocabulary quiz, draw the setting described in Chapter 1, fill out a setting-analysis graphic organizer (smells/sounds/sights) for Chapters 1-2, write a reading response on how a different setting might affect the characters, make predictions about the NightWings' plans for RainWing venom,…

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Mississippi River: Full Day Substitute Plans teaching resource preview
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Mississippi River: Full Day Substitute Plans

Students complete morning/afternoon 'get acquainted' and wrap-up messages, read independently and fill out reader response forms, complete reading comprehension passages and questions (river history, steamships, Mark Twain, the Sultana), construct a river timeline, locate cities/states and world rivers on maps, create a steamship travel…

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Wings of Fire: The Dangerous Gift Week 1 Freebie teaching resource preview Free download
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Wings of Fire: The Dangerous Gift Week 1 Freebie

Following a 5-day pacing guide, students read the Prologue and Chapters 1-5, learn Week 1 vocabulary and complete a vocabulary quiz, answer Prologue comprehension questions, and complete response worksheets: a prologue reflection, a character-traits graphic organizer (external/internal traits), a character-analysis tracker across the…

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Wings of Fire: The Dark Secret teaching resource preview
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Wings of Fire: The Dark Secret

Following a daily pacing guide, students read the Prologue and assigned chapters, learn and are quizzed on weekly vocabulary, answer chapter comprehension questions, complete literary-skill/response worksheets (setting drawing, setting analysis graphic organizer, reading response on setting, predictions, compare and contrast setting,…

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Animal Farm - Literature Kit Gr. 9-12 teaching resource preview
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Animal Farm - Literature Kit Gr. 9-12

Students read the novel and complete chapter-by-chapter comprehension/critical-thinking questions (across Bloom's Taxonomy levels), writing tasks, a word search, and a comprehension quiz; graphic organizers support the study.

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Managing Emotions | SEL Story + Activities teaching resource preview
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Managing Emotions | SEL Story + Activities

Students read/listen to the story about a boy who visits rooms representing five feelings, then answer comprehension questions, complete a true/false reading check and sequencing activity, fill in a story map graphic organizer, complete SEL reflection sheets connecting each 'room' to their own feelings, do a creative writing prompt…

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Snowflake Bentley Read Aloud Book Companion Activities for IRA teaching resource preview
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Snowflake Bentley Read Aloud Book Companion Activities for IRA

Complete graphic organizers and activities responding to the read-aloud book: make predictions, identify problem/solution, sequence events, analyze cause/effect, describe setting, analyze character traits/development/perspective, summarize, and make connections/inferences.

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White Owl, Barn Owl Interactive Read-Aloud Activities teaching resource preview
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White Owl, Barn Owl Interactive Read-Aloud Activities

Make predictions before reading; identify story elements; sequence and retell the story; complete a summary graphic organizer; make connections and inferences; visualize descriptive language; complete a word scramble, crossword, and word search; sort narrative vs. nonfiction details; determine fact vs. fiction and true vs. false…

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First Come the Zebra Read Aloud Book Companion Activities for IRA teaching resource preview
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First Come the Zebra Read Aloud Book Companion Activities for IRA

Make predictions before reading; fill in story-element graphic organizers; sequence events (first/next/then/last); make inferences and text-to-self connections; write a SWBS-style summary; sort story events by category (happiest/funniest/most embarrassing/most unbelievable/saddest); track two characters' (Abanni and Haki) feelings and…

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Substitute Survival Kit teaching resource preview
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Substitute Survival Kit

Students complete a variety of print-and-go activities across the two days: solve multiplication problems to decode a secret message, do a close reading of a nonfiction passage ('Sony's New Smart Watch') with a graphic organizer and vocabulary work, write a persuasive design pitch for a new smart watch, participate in a math task-card…

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Voluntary Exchange Reading Packet teaching resource preview
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Voluntary Exchange Reading Packet

Students read a passage about voluntary exchange (including a gold-mining-town example), fill in a graphic organizer, match vocabulary terms (goods, trade, voluntary exchange, services) to definitions, answer multiple-choice comprehension questions, and write a short summary paragraph.

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Industrialization Reading Packet teaching resource preview
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Industrialization Reading Packet

Reading/graphic-organizer packet teaching 5th-grade students about industrialization (rise of factories, urbanization, transportation).

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Events of September 11 Reading Packet teaching resource preview
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Events of September 11 Reading Packet

Teach students about the events and impacts of September 11, 2001 using two differentiated reading passages paired with comprehension, vocabulary, and graphic-organizer activities.

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Nonfiction Text Analysis Packet teaching resource preview
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Nonfiction Text Analysis Packet

Annotate a nonfiction text using coded symbols (circle = unsure/confused/question, heart = connection/favorite part, underline = important/key information); before reading, record schema (what I know) and questions (what I'm wondering); while reading, record the topic, three facts, and the author's purpose; identify the text's structure…

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