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Nonfiction reading assignment introducing students to simple machines and forces through a structured before/during/after-reading process.
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Nonfiction reading assignment introducing students to simple machines and forces through a structured before/during/after-reading process.
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A differentiated, multi-subject teaching packet built around the story 'Jack and the Beanstalk' (by Jeanette Vuuren), combining picture-story cards with cloze-style story sentences and cross-curricular math/literacy activities, designed for relief/substitute or regular classroom use from Prep to Year 3.
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A 5-day, no-prep unit study of the jaguar (a rainforest animal) combining videos, readings, worksheets, and activities for homeschool/co-op and early-elementary classroom use.
A comprehensive Grade 3-4 literature kit for Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach', built around Bloom's Taxonomy to develop reading comprehension, higher-order thinking, and creative writing skills through chapter-by-chapter questions and graphic organizers.
Plan a jigsaw reading activity around fiction or nonfiction using the teacher planning page and group overview. You can give students the same text with different expert focuses, or different texts with the same focus. Choices include main idea , text features, character, and plot. Teacher and student trackers record assignments and due dates, while cut-out cards keep the task visible in reading notebooks.
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