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Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 3
A guided reading lesson plan for Grade 3, built around the anchor text Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (Chapter 1: "Before Breakfast"), targeting characters, setting, and vocabulary.
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Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 2
A guided reading lesson plan for Grade 2, built around the anchor text Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel (example Level J-K book), targeting making predictions using text clues and illustrations (Fountas & Pinnell Level J-K).
Short stories & plays
The Rocking Horse Winner - Short Story Worksheets & Full Lesson Plan
A short-story analysis worksheet packet and two-lesson teaching plan for D.H. Lawrence's 'The Rocking-Horse Winner,' building reading comprehension, vocabulary, and symbolism analysis skills for high school/AP Literature and ESL/ELL students.
Guided reading
Guided Reading Lesson Plan & Activities for Grade 5
A guided reading lesson plan for Grade 5, built around the anchor text Matilda by Roald Dahl (Chapter 7: "Miss Honey"), targeting character motivation/inference, vocabulary building, and discussion of resilience and kindness themes.
Substitute lesson plans
Persuasive Reading Comprehension Passage Sub Plan for 6th, 7th, & 8th
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.
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Novel studies
Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House #1 Lesson Plan, Videos, Activities)
Provide a 5-day no-prep novel study companion for the book Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House #1), covering reading, comprehension, and vocabulary.
Substitute lesson plans
Animals at Work: Emergency Lesson Plan
A reading-comprehension lesson plan that uses nonfiction articles about animals that help people (monkeys and guide dogs) to build reading and vocabulary skills.
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Biographies & nonfiction
Mae Jemison - Astronaut & Pioneer - Reading Comprehension Worksheet & Lesson Plan
A reading comprehension worksheet and matching lesson plan built around a biographical text on Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, to build reading, speaking, and vocabulary skills while introducing themes of perseverance and overcoming barriers of race and gender.
Substitute lesson plans
Savannah Animals Reading Comprehension Passage Sub Plan Middle School
A nonfiction reading-comprehension passage about animal life on the African savanna, packaged as a ready-to-use substitute-teacher lesson plan.
Novel studies
High Tide in Hawaii (Magic Tree House #28 Lesson Plan, Videos, Activities)
A no-prep, 5-day cross-curricular unit study built around the novel 'High Tide in Hawaii' (Magic Tree House #28), combining independent/read-aloud reading, curated videos, chapter quizzes, vocabulary, and hands-on activities to teach reading comprehension alongside Hawaii-related science and social studies content.
Biographies & nonfiction
David Bowie - Reading Comprehension Worksheet & Lesson Plan
An ESL/ELA reading comprehension and listening lesson built around a biographical text about musician David Bowie, paired with a teacher lesson plan.
Biographies & nonfiction
ELA Activity Pack - Rosa Parks
Deliver a 90-minute ELA literacy-block packet built around a short informative reading passage about Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott, with comprehension, critical-thinking, vocabulary, research, and writing activities.
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Novel studies
Viking Ships at Sunrise (Magic Tree House #15 Lesson Plan, Videos, Activities)
A 5-day novel-study unit for the book "Magic Tree House #15: Viking Ships at Sunrise," building reading comprehension, vocabulary, and engagement through daily video links, guided/independent reading, discussion, quizzes, vocabulary work and craft/drawing activities.
Biographies & nonfiction
Pine Trees: Evergreens: Kindergarten Science Projects
A multi-file thematic unit teaching that pine trees are evergreen conifers, using leveled reading-comprehension passages, a structured science lesson plan, and a vocabulary slideshow.
Substitute lesson plans
Día de los Muertos Reading Comprehension Passage and Craft for 4th-7th
A cultural-studies sub-plan/lesson that teaches grades 4-7 students about the Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos and compares it with the Hindu Shradh (Pitru Paksha) tradition, combining reading comprehension, discussion, and a craft activity.
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Short stories & plays
Left is All Right: A Story about Left-Handedness: Emergency Lesson Plan
An emergency (sub-ready) lesson plan built around a short story about left-handedness, teaching reading comprehension and factual content about handedness.
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Short stories & plays
Hercules: The Strongest Man in the World: Emergency Lesson Plan
An emergency (substitute-ready) lesson plan that teaches the Greek myth of Hercules through a nonfiction-style narrative reading paired with comprehension, math word problems, word play, and map-reading activities.
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Short stories & playsText analysis & response
"A Storm Called Katrina" | Picture Book Read Aloud
A book-companion / interactive read-aloud packet built around the picture book 'A Storm Called Katrina' by Myron Uhlberg, covering reading comprehension, story elements, character analysis, plot structure, and text-to-text connections.
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Substitute lesson plans
The Great Lakes: Full Day Substitute Plans
A full-day substitute-teacher lesson-plan package built around the Great Lakes, combining reading comprehension, social studies, writing, and math activities into a single scheduled school day.
Substitute lesson plans
The 'Sick Day' Savior: K-5 Emergency Sub Plans Bundle
K-5 emergency substitute-teacher lesson plan bundle providing no-prep, independent-work packets across ELA, math, science, and social studies for use when a classroom teacher is absent.
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Text analysis & response
"A Wrong" Close Reading Exemplar for 6th-8th Grade
A close-reading exemplar and multi-day lesson package built around a short historical-fiction excerpt, 'A Wrong' (adapted from 'A Young Macedonian in the Army of Alexander the Great'), aligned to Common Core standards for grades 6-8.
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Biographies & nonfiction
ELA Activity Pack - Ruby Bridges
Deliver a 90-minute ELA literacy-block packet built around a short informative reading passage about Ruby Bridges and school desegregation, with comprehension, critical-thinking, vocabulary, research, and writing activities.
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Short stories & plays
"How the Camel Got His Humps" Reading Packet
Teach reading comprehension and character analysis using an adapted Kipling fable, across a 5-day instructional sequence.
"Bark, George" | Picture Book Study
A discussion guide with nine teacher-answered questions opens this 'Bark, George!' book study, followed by project and craft ideas (a cardboard 'feed George' game, a story crown, a jigsaw puzzle), four linked YouTube videos, and a one-page nonfiction reading on veterinarians. Ten greeting signs teach 'hello' in different languages, tying into the story's ending. The bulk of the set is literacy practice: tracing, a maze, sight-word and phonics pages (words containing -RK), matching, sorting, fill-in-the-blank, and story-structure worksheets covering characters, setting, sequencing, and story elements, plus open-ended writing and drawing prompts and a design-your-own-cover activity.