Halloween 60' Full PowerPoint Lesson
Teach students the history, traditions, symbols and vocabulary of Halloween through a 60-minute PowerPoint lesson with reading, quiz, and activity components.
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Teach students the history, traditions, symbols and vocabulary of Halloween through a 60-minute PowerPoint lesson with reading, quiz, and activity components.
A no-prep, digital/interactive micro-learning deck that exposes students to Halloween-themed informational texts and a scary story through close reading, vocabulary, and response activities.
The materials follow the Louisiana Curriculum Hub sequence while providing charts, writing prompts, and activities for examining the musical’s characters and historical portrayals. Students compare sources, prepare discussion responses, and work toward a culminating essay. Creative choices such as character social-media stories offer another way to demonstrate an interpretation alongside the analytical work.
Provide a comprehensive literature-study kit for teaching Shakespeare's Hamlet, including vocabulary, chapter questions, writing tasks, and assessment.
A cross-curricular reading comprehension lesson for grades 1-2 built around a short nonfiction/narrative text about a pig named Hammy, building comprehension and critical thinking skills.
A 2-hour lesson plan and movie guide built around the film 'Hanukkah on Rye' (2022), teaching Hanukkah history and traditions alongside themes of family legacy, rivalry, and conflict resolution through Jewish deli culture.
A 2-hour lesson plan built around the Disney film 'Full-Court Miracle' (2003) that connects the historical Hanukkah story of the Maccabees to modern themes of perseverance, faith, and teamwork through a basketball narrative.
Build informational-text reading comprehension and summarizing skills about the Harlem Renaissance through a short reading passage, guided vocabulary fill-in-the-blank, and a structured written summary.
The picture-book companion offers discussion questions with responses, early reading and handwriting pages, writing prompts and story crafts. Read the book first, then select activities appropriate to your learners. A puzzle, mask and crown provide hands-on ways to continue talking about the story.
Teach the meaning of the figurative-language idiom 'Haste Makes Waste' and build comprehension/summarizing skills through a video lesson, close reading passage, vocabulary practice, and guided writing.
A published (Classroom Complete Press) literature kit for the novel Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, providing a full teacher guide and student worksheet set covering comprehension, vocabulary, writing, and assessment aligned to Bloom's Taxonomy.
Support a class reading of Gary Paulsen’s Hatchet with activities that revisit comprehension, vocabulary, and written responses. Chapter materials and quizzes give you ways to check understanding as students follow Brian’s experiences. Select from reflection prompts, vocabulary practice, and later assessments to fit your teaching sequence. The existing vocabulary worksheet link offers a separate vocabulary resource alongside this novel unit.
Novel-study literature kit teaching reading comprehension and critical-thinking skills (Bloom's Taxonomy) for the Newbery Honor novel Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson, grades 5-6.
A full lesson plan package for teaching the short story 'Hearts and Hands' by O. Henry, covering plot, theme, irony, and other literary elements, plus a set of reusable literary-analysis graphic organizers and PowerPoints and bonus classroom-engagement materials.
This novel study combines vocabulary work, literary analysis and comprehension questions across Hello, Universe. The teaching guide suggests when to introduce extensions, while blank and completed vocabulary pages offer different levels of support. Choose activities alongside the reading schedule and use the quizzes, final test and answer keys to review students’ understanding.
Helping the Largest Organ Heal Itself: A Cross-Curricular Unit on Skin A powerful and educational teaching tool, ideally suited for fifth and sixth-grade educators.
A literacy companion unit for the book 'Henry and Mudge and the Funny Lunch,' covering vocabulary, prediction, comprehension, and compound words.
A Common Core-aligned full-day substitute teacher plan for 4th grade built around a 'Heroes' theme, combining reading, social studies/character education, writing, and math activities for a sub or regular teacher to run a complete school day.
An emergency (substitute-ready) Language Arts lesson plan pairing a narrative reading passage about the invention of the trampoline with comprehension and writing activities, for Grades 5-6.
A 2-week (10-day) comparative literature unit teaching students to analyze and compare Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic Horror style with Modern Horror fiction (e.g., Shirley Jackson) by examining themes, settings, characters, and methods of evoking fear.
A faith-based (Christian/providential) high school unit study on the American Semiquincentennial (America's 250th anniversary), framing the nation's founding as a religious 'covenant of liberty,' with reading passage, vocabulary, writing prompts, note-taking sheets, and word puzzles.
A complete 4-week high school literature unit study for S.E. Hinton's novel 'The Outsiders,' covering plot, character analysis, themes (social class, friendship, heroism, identity, family, redemption, social responsibility), symbolism, and a film comparison, culminating in a final project and assessment.
Build recognition, vocabulary and reading comprehension of high-frequency (sight) words for K-1 students through a chapter-slice of reproducible activities centered on sight word stories.
Guide students through a culminating book-report project on the historical fiction genre, covering plot structure, characterization, sensory description, and literary devices.