Cookie's Week Language-Literacy Book Companion Packet
Support language and literacy skills, including AAC/core-vocabulary use, through activities built around the book 'Cookie's Week' by Cindy Ward, with a days-of-the-week theme.
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Support language and literacy skills, including AAC/core-vocabulary use, through activities built around the book 'Cookie's Week' by Cindy Ward, with a days-of-the-week theme.
Product Name: Coronavirus Discursive Argument: Should Kids Be Concerned About A Pandemic? This teaching resource is designed to enhance critical thinking skills among students aged 9 to 16, particularly in language arts instruction with an…
Organize a country project with a checklist, research prompts and note-taking pages that keep sources alongside students’ findings. Learners choose at least four of seven topics and develop at least four paragraphs, then add illustrated fast facts and five attractions. Writing templates and a rubric make expectations visible from the start, while optional pages allow students to extend their reports.
Guide students through writing a formal 5-paragraph reflective essay on their personal experience of the COVID-19 pandemic.
An art lesson using a dice-based drawing game to guide students through creating a crab illustration, paired with literacy and reflective writing tasks.
A multi-part poetry unit combining a presentation on poetry concepts/types with an independent note-taking and poem-writing/sharing project for secondary ELA students.
Creating and Managing a Writing Workshop: A Digital Guide for Dynamic Educators Creating and Managing a Writing Workshop is an innovative teaching resource catered to the needs of dynamic educators keen on refining their students' writing…
A comprehensive multi-part unit and lesson-plan bundle for building an independent reading practice in middle school, covering reading strategies, reading logs, summary writing, metacognitive reading responses, and setting up a classroom library.
A mini-lesson/workshop teaching secondary students the 'show, don't tell' writing principle, using a slideshow contrasting telling sentences with showing paragraphs, then having students turn a randomly-drawn telling sentence into a descriptive showing paragraph.
A mini-lesson/workshop teaching secondary students how to write and punctuate dialogue effectively in narrative writing, using a slideshow, a topic-strip speaking activity, and a punctuation practice worksheet with answer key.
A mini-lesson/workshop teaching secondary students to identify and create literary 'voice' (diction, syntax, tone) through a poem-reconstruction group activity and an original-writing exercise.
A mini-lesson/workshop teaching secondary students to identify and create mood in writing, using famous paintings as mood-analysis examples (as a whole-class lesson or gallery walk) and a setting-description writing activity.
A mini-lesson/workshop teaching secondary students to write with more precise and concise language, using a slideshow of weak-vs-strong sentence examples, a reference handout, and a two-part worksheet with answer key.
A mini-lesson/workshop teaching secondary students to identify, analyze, and create tone in writing, using a slideshow, guided practice with poems and Shakespearean sonnets, and a situation/tone-strip writing activity distinguishing tone from mood.
A language-literacy book companion for 'Creepy Carrots' (Halloween/carrots theme), designed for speech therapy and emergent-literacy/AAC support during early elementary or special-education instruction.
A language-literacy book companion for 'Creepy Pair of Underwear!' (Halloween theme), designed for speech therapy and emergent-literacy/AAC support during early elementary or special-education instruction.
A comprehensive literature kit for teaching the novel 'Crispin: The Cross of Lead' by Avi, covering chapter comprehension, critical thinking, and writing skills.
Critical Thinking: Social Programs: More, Fewer, or Just Right A comprehensive teaching resource designed for high school students studying in grades 9-12: this lesson will help your students think about their society as it currently is…
A full-day set of substitute teacher lesson plans on the theme of cultural diversity for 5th/6th grade.
The heritage project combines research with several ways to share learning. Students trace a family line, organize a six-paragraph culture essay, prepare a tri-fold display with four representative items and present at a cultural fair. The parent letter, draft outline and rubric help teachers explain the assignment and schedule preparation before fair day.
A literature kit built around the book 'Curious George' by H.A. Rey, providing a teacher guide and student activities across phonics, word study, comprehension, reading response, and graphic organizers, published by Classroom Complete Press.
Teach upper-intermediate (B2) ESL/EFL students vocabulary, grammar (verb tenses), listening, and writing skills through engagement with current-events topics (climate change, healthcare, economy, protests, AI ethics, energy crisis).
A structured CVC phonics-and-spelling intervention unit (Unit 1, Lessons 1-4, Short A) that walks older struggling readers through explicit word-family lessons using a repeating five-step routine (introduce pattern, teacher-led practice, independent practice, read & write, review/reinforce).
A structured CVC phonics-and-spelling intervention unit (Unit 4, Lessons 13-16) that walks older struggling readers through explicit word-family lessons using a repeating five-step routine (introduce pattern, teacher-led practice, independent practice, read & write, review/reinforce).