Halloween + Day of the Dead Activity Pack
Teach Grade 5 students about Halloween and the Day of the Dead through vocabulary, math, reading, and writing activities that compare and contrast the two holidays.
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Daily Morning Work for January
A set of daily no-prep morning-work worksheets for January, giving 2nd/3rd graders 10-15 minutes of mixed math and language-arts review as they settle into the classroom.
Grade 2 Yearlong Reading Comprehension Curriculum | 36 Worksheets
A 36-week, no-prep grade 2 reading comprehension curriculum pairing a short fiction or nonfiction passage each week with vocabulary practice, comprehension questions, and an open-ended writing prompt, plus a full answer key and teacher's guide.
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St. Patrick’s Leprechaun Social Media Profile Project | Biography Rese
A creative-writing and research project in which students research St. Patrick's Day and leprechaun folklore, then design an imaginative 'social media profile' for a leprechaun character, culminating in peer presentation and feedback.
ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity - Winter Solstice
Build ESL/EFL reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills using a nonfiction passage about the science and cultural history of the winter solstice.
Thank You, Teacher - End of Year Writing Prompt
End-of-year writing and drawing prompt in which students express thanks and reflect on something special their teacher did.
ESL Novel Study - Monday with a Mad Genius - Magic Tree House
Post-reading ESL/EFL novel-study worksheet for a Magic Tree House book, prompting setting identification, two open list-response activities, a postcard-writing prompt from the story's adventure, and an alternate-ending essay.
Storyboard Creative Writing Planning Guide
A step-by-step storyboard planning guide, available as both printable and interactive Google Slides, that teaches students to plan a creative narrative by identifying its plot, setting, characters, conflict, and theme.
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Christmas Movie Lesson Plan Mega Pack — 27 Classics for All Grades!
Provide 27 ready-to-teach, 2-hour movie-based ELA lesson plans covering popular Christmas films for elementary through high school classes.
ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity Worksheets on "Sauna"
Give secondary-level ESL/EFL students a reading passage and paired writing activity about saunas and their history/health uses to build English reading comprehension and written expression.
Halloween - The Ultimate Bundle!
A three-part Halloween bundle: a 30-page Halloween coloring book, a 120-minute lesson plan teaching the history of Halloween (Samhain to modern trick-or-treating) with video-based activities and worksheets, and a companion 60-minute PowerPoint slideshow covering the same historical content with built-in quiz/vocabulary/gap-fill slides.
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Daily Morning Work for April
A set of daily no-prep morning-work worksheets for April, giving 2nd/3rd graders 10-15 minutes of mixed math and language-arts review as they settle into the classroom.
Othello Act 4, Scene 1 | Double Entry Journals
Four double-entry journal boxes walk students through Othello Act 4, Scene 1 in sequence, each pairing a specific line range with a comprehension prompt on the left and a request for supporting textual evidence on the right. Students first explain Iago's accusation against Cassio, then trace how Iago manipulates Othello into believing Desdemona's infidelity, then describe what Othello threatens to do to Desdemona and how that differs from his earlier attitude toward her, and finally characterize Othello's public treatment of Desdemona in front of Lodovico. For each box, students must locate and explicate the key lines from the cited range that support their explanation, directly tying interpretation to quoted evidence. A closing prompt asks students to summarize the entire scene in their own words, and the file is provided as both a Word document and a matching PDF. Teachers working through the play in order can pair this with an earlier Iago soliloquy analysis covering Act 1 and Act 2, which builds the same close-reading and textual-evidence skills on Iago's manipulation before this Act 4 confrontation.
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Little Red Riding Hood | Diary Writing Prompts
Four diary-entry writing prompts that ask students to write in the voice of different Little Red Riding Hood characters, practicing perspective-taking and narrative/personal writing.
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Journey Into The Deepest, Darkest Jungle: Write A Story (9-13 years)
A creative writing resource that models story-opening techniques with a jungle-themed mentor text, prompting students to write their own animal adventure story.
ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity Worksheets on Stonehenge
Give secondary-level ESL/EFL students a reading passage and paired writing activity about the archaeological site of Stonehenge to build English reading comprehension and written expression.
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town – Lesson Plan & Worksheet (Grades 1–5)
A 90-minute ESL/ELA lesson plan and worksheet built around the song 'Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,' teaching vocabulary, present continuous tense, modal verbs (should/shouldn't), and listening comprehension, with discussion of behavior and fairness themes.
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Creative Writing Prompts Grade 3 | The Strange Book
Gives grade 3 students 8 themed creative-writing prompts on a strange, magical book, each with sentence starters, guiding questions, and a word bank, to practice organizing a narrative with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
ESL Reading Comprehension + Writing Activity Worksheet - Sahara Desert
A one-page nonfiction reading passage about the Sahara Desert, paired with comprehension, vocabulary, and true/false questions and one or more opinion/argumentative essay writing prompts, for ESL/EFL reading and writing practice.
High School 2025 October ELA Bell Ringers
A month of daily October ELA warm-up/bell-ringer prompts for high school students, mixing grammar correction, creative writing, poetry, vocabulary, and literary analysis, built around a Halloween/Gothic-literature theme.
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Arctic Animals Endless Creative Writing Prompts
A creative writing resource using an arctic animals theme and the SWBST (Somebody Wants But So Then) story structure to give first-to-third grade students low-prep writing prompts that also build arctic animal knowledge.
The Pearl Chapter 6 | Double Entry Journals
A double entry journal worksheet for close reading and analysis of Chapter 6 (the final chapter) of John Steinbeck's The Pearl, focused on textual evidence, thematic change over the novel, and character relationship arcs.
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The Character Builder & Story Builder Activity
Give students a MASH-style (fold-and-predict/spiral counting) creative writing game to randomly generate character traits and story elements for use in creative writing.
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Write a Letter to Santa Writing Activity
Provide a Christmas-themed writing activity in which students compose a letter to Santa Claus using printable letter templates, then assemble a matching envelope to mail it.