ESL Novel Study - "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Partypooper" by Jeff Kinney
Post-reading ESL/EFL novel-study worksheet for "Partypooper" by Jeff Kinney, combining a vocabulary exercise, reflection/comprehension prompts and creative-writing tasks.
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Post-reading ESL/EFL novel-study worksheet for "Partypooper" by Jeff Kinney, combining a vocabulary exercise, reflection/comprehension prompts and creative-writing tasks.
Students read informational/scientific readings on each topic, answer analytic questions requiring accurate detail from the text, complete data-analysis, case-study, debate, and claim-evidence-reasoning (CER) responses scored with rubrics, and use vocabulary cards, worksheets, and unit tests.
Read a short informational article, answer written comprehension questions (including one true/false question that requires arguing the answer from the text), complete a short synonym-writing vocabulary exercise, then write a full essay responding to one of two or three provided writing prompts.
Students record talk details (when/where it was held, speaker, topic), discuss pre-listening warm-up questions with a partner or in writing, log up to 10 new vocabulary words and their meanings, take while-listening notes (classify the main idea as informative/persuasive/entertaining and list key points, facts, or examples)…
A movie-study resource built around Pixar's Inside Out 2 (2024) combining social-emotional learning with literacy, grammar, and math practice for grades 3-10.
Complete 20 activities across four parts (Before You Watch, While You Watch, Dig Deeper, Create & Reflect): anticipation guide, vocabulary in context, plot sequencing, multiple-choice and short-answer comprehension, true/false correction, cause-and-effect, character-line matching, emotion line graph, story mountain, Venn…
A movie-study companion built around the 2021 Netflix film 'Yes Day,' combining ELA, math/data, and SEL activities across a 30-activity student worksheet, a teacher's guide, and an answer key.
An ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet packet built around a biographical informational passage about Naomi Osaka, tennis player, used to build reading comprehension, vocabulary-in-context, and essay-writing skills.
Students record talk details (when/where it was held, speaker, topic), discuss pre-listening warm-up questions with a partner or in writing, log up to 10 new vocabulary words and their meanings, take while-listening notes (classify the main idea as informative/persuasive/entertaining and list key points, facts, or examples)…
An extensive World History II SOL review worksheet (103 questions) covering world religions through Reformation-era and exploration topics, using charts, fill-in-the-blank, and multiple choice formats.
Answer setting questions, complete vocabulary lists, write a postcard as Jack/Annie describing the adventure, and write an alternate-ending essay for the novel; all response areas are blank lines in the scanned file.
An ESL/EFL reading comprehension and writing worksheet packet built around an informational passage about Oslo, Norway, used to build reading comprehension, vocabulary-in-context, and essay-writing skills.
Students record talk details (when/where it was held, speaker, topic), discuss pre-listening warm-up questions with a partner or in writing, log up to 10 new vocabulary words and their meanings, take while-listening notes (classify the main idea as informative/persuasive/entertaining and list key points, facts, or examples)…
Students are paired as married couples, assigned to either the sharecropper or tenant farmer group, select a crop each year, and fill in a budget worksheet tracking crop revenue, rent/landlord payments, and living expenses over five simulated years, then debrief on whether the system worked.
A multi-part, no-prep worksheet packet for Grade 8 students to review math and English skills and reflect creatively on the school year.
Students read an informational passage in either an on-level (Version A) or below-level (Version B) format, circle the best multiple-choice answers, match vocabulary terms to definitions, fill in graphic organizers about each historical figure and about Georgia's economy, complete four 'ticket out the door' exit slips, and fill in a…
Read a short informational article, answer written comprehension questions (including one true/false question that requires arguing the answer from the text), complete a short synonym-writing vocabulary exercise, then write a full essay responding to one of two or three provided writing prompts.
Students record talk details (when/where it was held, speaker, topic), discuss pre-listening warm-up questions with a partner or in writing, log up to 10 new vocabulary words and their meanings, take while-listening notes (classify the main idea as informative/persuasive/entertaining and list key points, facts, or…
An informational slide-style presentation introducing El Salvador: greeting/basic vocabulary, general country data, languages, a history timeline, geography and climate, economy, capital city, other major cities, and culture (food, music, festivals).
End-of-year Grade 8 math review to reinforce eighth-grade standards and build readiness for high school Algebra 1, covering real numbers/exponents/scientific notation, linear equations and functions/slope, the Pythagorean theorem, systems of equations, and bivariate data.
Fill in the novel's author, genre and publishing date; list 10 new vocabulary words and their meanings; name a favourite chapter and explain why; give the novel a star rating and write a review; then write a three-page diary entry in the voice of a character from the novel.
Read a short informational article, answer written comprehension questions (including one true/false question that requires arguing the answer from the text), complete a short synonym-writing vocabulary exercise, then write a full essay responding to one of two or three provided writing prompts.
Students record talk details (when/where it was held, speaker, topic), discuss pre-listening warm-up questions with a partner or in writing, log up to 10 new vocabulary words and their meanings, take while-listening notes (classify the main idea as informative/persuasive/entertaining and list key points, facts, or examples)…
Students discuss when they think slavery ended, watch a video and take notes, participate in guided discussion, review lecture notes on key facts, complete a worksheet (short-answer comprehension, true/false, vocabulary matching, chronological timeline ordering, reflection question), and share responses in a wrap-up…