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A reading, vocabulary and SEL lesson inspired by Matilda the Musical that builds context-clue vocabulary skills, story-element analysis, graph reading, and narrative writing while discussing fairness and courage.
A 5-day homeschool/co-op unit study teaching Virginia's state symbols (capital, bird, flower, flag, animal) through cross-curricular reading, worksheets, and activities.
A teacher-directed lesson plan presenting background information and source artifacts on the Russia-Ukraine crisis, building student understanding of the conflict's causes.
Provide a 5-day, no-prep novel study unit built around Magic Tree House #17: Tonight on the Titanic, combining videos, chapter reading, quizzes, vocabulary, and activities.
Provide a 5-day, no-prep novel study unit built around Magic Tree House #32: To the Future, Ben Franklin, combining videos, chapter reading, quizzes, vocabulary, and activities.
A full day of ready-to-copy substitute-teacher lesson plans and activities for 4th graders covering natural resources (natural, man-made, renewable, nonrenewable).
A full-day set of substitute teacher lesson plans on the theme of cultural diversity for 5th/6th grade.
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 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.
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.
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 cross-curricular S.T.E.A.M. activity packet inspired by the novel 'A Night Divided', pairing hands-on science/engineering/art projects (mural art, structural design, tunneling, simple machines, rocket building) with the book's historical themes (Berlin Wall, Cold War, Space Race, Keith Haring's art).
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.
Teach nonfiction reading skills using a fall/apple-themed early-reader nonfiction book ('Apples'), including nonfiction text-feature instruction (table of contents, headings, illustrations, glossary, index) and a differentiated, two-level reading format with teacher guides.
A comprehensive, multi-activity picture book study built around 'Are You My Mother?' by P.D. Eastman, covering discussion questions, craft/project ideas, non-fiction extension reading, retelling, phonics/letter practice, and writing activities for preschool through grade 1.
Help young learners discover nonfiction reading with engaging content and real-life photos that capture their curiosity. This resource is designed to introduce students to nonfiction text features in an easy-to-understand way.
Baby Birds Nonfiction Early Reader Boost Reading Comprehension: A teaching resource designed to improve early literacy competencies among preschoolers and kindergarteners.
A discussion guide with nine teacher-answered questions opens this 'Bark, George!' book study, followed by project and craft ideas (a cardboard 'feed George' game, a story crown, a jigsaw puzzle), four linked YouTube videos, and a one-page nonfiction reading on veterinarians. Ten greeting signs teach 'hello' in different languages, tying into the story's ending. The bulk of the set is literacy practice: tracing, a maze, sight-word and phonics pages (words containing -RK), matching, sorting, fill-in-the-blank, and story-structure worksheets covering characters, setting, sequencing, and story elements, plus open-ended writing and drawing prompts and a design-your-own-cover activity.