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A ready-to-use 'emergency' substitute lesson plan (no advance teacher prep needed) built around a biographical reading passage about polar explorer Matthew Henson and Robert Peary's 1909 North Pole expedition.
A ready-to-print, two-day set of substitute lesson plans spanning reading, math, writing, STEM, spelling, and language, plus classroom-info sheets, so a teacher can leave a full day's activities without advance prep.
A full-day, ready-to-use substitute teacher plan for K-1 classrooms built around 'J' words, covering morning/afternoon meetings, independent reading response, math, writing, and social studies activities.
Teach middle school students about propaganda and how it was used to incite colonists against the British after the Boston Massacre, using the Into/Through/Beyond lesson method.
Middle school ELA mini-unit (Part 5 of a larger 'Creating Independent Readers' series) teaching students to identify reading strategies, annotate/'talk to the text', and write thoughtful reading responses.
A 45-page reading and critical-thinking resource teaching middle/high school students the history of voting rights in the United States, including annotation practice, terms, and questions.
A media-literacy and civics research lesson in which students compare the two major U.S. presidential candidates' campaign websites (and a nonpartisan comparison site and a third-party candidate's site) to analyze platforms, messaging, and coalitions.
A multi-part social studies unit teaching students to read a legislative-process flowchart and understand how a bill becomes a law, including a companion real-world research project.
A 27-page standards-aligned lesson packet teaching students to closely read and analyze the Mayflower Compact as a primary source document using a structured '4 Reads' strategy, including a companion primary-vs-secondary-source mini-lesson.
An SEL (social-emotional learning) resource pack built around a printable story, 'Liam and the House of Five Feelings,' teaching students to identify and manage five emotions (happy, sad, angry, scared, calm).
Lesson 7 of a Constitution unit teaching federalism, separation of powers, and checks and balances, including a reading, vocabulary worksheet, flowchart interpretation, review worksheets, and a summative test.
Teaches the Five Themes of Geography (location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, region) through text passages, guided questions, a crossword, personal-connection homework, a study guide, and a summative test, aligned to California grade 5-6 history-social science standards and CCSS ELA/reading standards.
A 46-page mini-unit that teaches middle/high school students the rights protected by the 10 amendments in the Bill of Rights, gives an overview of Amendments 11-27, and has them apply amendments to real-world/current-event scenarios.
Teach Reading Literature Common Core standards for grades 3-6 through 19 interactive-notebook foldable lessons covering inference, theme, summarizing, character/setting/event analysis, figurative language, story structure, point of view, and cross-genre/cross-media comparison.
Teach students to analyze and interpret challenging primary source documents by creating Found Poetry, connecting close reading of historical/literary texts to creative poetic composition.
A comprehensive Grades 5-6 literature-kit teaching guide and student handout set for the novel Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis, structured around Bloom's Taxonomy comprehension levels.
Guide students through a multi-week project comparing a novel to its film adaptation, culminating in a Common Core-aligned compare-and-contrast essay.
A scripted elementary school play/readers' theater and companion teaching guide about a summer camper wrongly blamed for pranks actually committed by her younger sisters, for drama and reading practice.
A 25-part reader's-theater play retelling the Johnny Appleseed folk tale, paired with a teaching guide and student activities to build reading comprehension, character analysis, and creative writing skills.
A 5-day homeschool/co-op novel study unit for the book 'Magic Tree House #31: Warriors in Winter,' pairing chapter reading with videos, discussion/worksheets, and daily hands-on Ancient Rome activities.
A 5-day no-prep novel study/unit for the book 'Stage Fright on a Summer Night' (Magic Tree House #25), combining reading comprehension, vocabulary, and cross-curricular activities themed around Shakespeare and theater.
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.
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.
Support a picture book study unit built around the story 'The Apple Pie Tree,' adaptable for Pre-K through Grade 1.