Earth Day Bell Work + Mentor Sentences
A 4-week bell-ringer/mentor-sentence unit built around a nonfiction text on the history of Earth Day, teaching grammar and sentence-analysis skills.
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A 4-week bell-ringer/mentor-sentence unit built around a nonfiction text on the history of Earth Day, teaching grammar and sentence-analysis skills.
Would you rather take 4-minute showers or plant your own garden? If you need an engaging way to teach opinion writing, look no further than this step-by-step unit!
A large multi-component earthquake unit combining CLOSE-reading nonfiction passages and instructional supports, CLOZE fill-in-the-blank worksheets, vocabulary cards, graphic organizers, and a writing task to teach earthquakes.
Guide an earthquake research project with prompts about causes, effects, measurement and preparedness. Students gather information, take notes and develop written responses using the packet’s research supports. Choose either the simpler resource-recording page or the bibliography template to match their experience, and use the editing checklist and rubric during revision. The teacher notes explicitly allow selecting pages rather than assigning the entire packet.
A bundle of two ESL/EFL-style lesson plans about Easter traditions and history (video-based listening/speaking/writing lessons) plus an Easter coloring book, aimed at building language skills and cultural knowledge around Easter.
Education Upper Intermediate Lesson Plan offers engaging exercises to help intermediate English language learners expand their skills.
A ready-to-use substitute/emergency lesson plan teaching basic spider facts through an informational reading passage and follow-up activities.
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.
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.
Cross-curricular reading unit built around the novel 'The Mouse and the Motorcycle' by Beverly Cleary, combining reading comprehension, writing, social studies (map skills), and science (STEM/energy/biology) extensions.
Teach students the features, themes, and famous examples of elegy poetry and guide them through writing an original elegy.
Elf for Hire: A Persuasive Writing Unit is an engaging way to get your students excited about writing during the holiday season. Students will be writing about why they should be Santa's helper!
A 2-hour movie-based lesson plan and companion worksheet using the film 'Eloise at Christmastime' (2003) to teach reading comprehension, vocabulary, character analysis, and descriptive writing.
A multi-day mini unit teaching students professional email etiquette: what makes an email appropriate/professional, the parts of an email, and how to write and revise emails for different real-world purposes.
A Lorenz Educational Press collection of eight cross-curricular nonfiction reading passages with reproducible follow-up activities for grades 1-2, designed for emergency/substitute teaching situations or supplemental cross-curricular study, and correlated to National Education Standards.
This 55-page PDF combines substitute planning materials with five days of student work about the Constitution and Constitutional Convention. Students annotate an informational reading, read fictional letters from George Washington’s perspective, answer questions and compare the texts. Later tasks include color-by-code, an events flowchart, review questions, a letter from James Madison’s perspective and an illustration. Daily directions, classroom-information forms and answer pages support the substitute; vocabulary activities and a word search provide additional practice.
Ready to make substitute days smoother? Grab this ELA sub plan set, print it out, save it for those surprise moments, and know you’ve got excellent ELA work ready to go. Get 1 full week of engaging ELA content ready to use!
A multi-day (intro states 5 days) set of sample and editable substitute/emergency lesson plans for an early-elementary/kindergarten classroom, covering a full daily schedule (morning meeting, reading, math, science, writing, etc.), plus guidance on organizing a substitute binder/tub.
A scaffolded writing resource guiding Grade 4-6 students through planning and drafting a 5-paragraph formal reflective essay about their elementary school experience, for the transition to middle school.
Guide a movie-study lesson on the 2020 film Enola Holmes, building comprehension, analysis, and creative-writing skills tied to the film's themes of identity, independence, and social change.
An 11-slide ESL/EFL discussion and writing lesson using illustrations/scenes (implied to be from or inspired by 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid') as prompts to discuss teenage problems.
A cultural/writing ESL-EFL lesson introducing the traditional English/British breakfast, its history, and components, followed by a personal writing activity comparing it to the student's own culture.
A 13-slide ESL/EFL lesson on fake news, combining a definition/discussion warm-up, listening comprehension activity, and writing activity, to build critical media literacy and English language skills.
A 14-slide ESL/EFL lesson about global girls' education access and Malala Yousafzai's activism, combining picture description, listening comprehension, and writing activities.