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A 13-part bundle of guided-reading lesson plans, one per grade level from Kindergarten through Grade 12, each built around a grade-appropriate book (e.g., a picture book for Grade 1, "Of Mice and Men" for Grade 10, "The Great Gatsby" for Grade 11) with matching discussion, vocabulary, and comprehension activities.
A 10-day mini-unit lesson plan teaching Greek and Latin roots, vocabulary strategies (synonyms, antonyms, homophones, analogies, context clues), and word comprehension through interactive activities, games, notes, and projects.
A guided-reading lesson plan for Kindergarten built around a simple beginner-level book (referenced as "The Cat and the Hat" or similar), focused on phonics, sight-word recognition, and reading comprehension.
A guided reading lesson plan for Grade 1, built around the anchor text Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. (example picture book), targeting color/animal vocabulary, predictions from pictures, fluency through repetition and rhythm.
Provide a teacher-facing kindergarten Reader's Workshop mini-lesson pack covering foundational reading-community skills (book care, who/what/where/when/why readers read, and ways to read) using the workshop model.
A comprehensive genre-study unit teaching narrative nonfiction through multiple lesson plans, a book report project, and related graphic organizers and rubrics.
A combined bundle of all 12 parts (Units A-L) of the Road to Reading phonics intervention program, designed for struggling readers who have fallen behind in basic reading skills, covering the progression from letter names through prefixes/suffixes.
Part 1 of a middle-school independent-reading unit that teaches students to metacognate about their own reading through a reading survey, personal reading history, and a poem-based reading-strategies lesson.
A five-day lesson-plan unit using picture books (Chrysanthemum, The Name Jar, Your Name is a Song, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom) to teach students about the significance of names, identity, and name-based phonics.
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.
Interactive multi-lesson unit study introducing and expanding students' knowledge of giraffes, for elementary teachers and homeschooling/co-op families.
A 5-day cross-curricular unit study covering Kentucky's state capital, bird, flower, flag, and animal, for homeschool/co-op or classroom use.
A comprehensive 12-unit literature teaching guide for the novel 'A Wrinkle in Time', covering pre-reading discussion, chapter study guides, vocabulary, class discussion, tests, and writing projects.
A 5-day homeschool/co-op unit study on endangered animals, focused on giant pandas, combining videos, readings, and worksheets.
A lesson plan and reading passage profiling Greta Thunberg's activism and Asperger's/autism experience, used to teach reading comprehension and spark discussion on climate change, activism, and related social topics.
A structured, systematic synthetic phonics programme ('Reading Made Simple', Level 1) teaching reading, spelling, and writing together, for use with learners across a wide age range.
A multi-lesson unit teaching the history of piracy from the ancient Mediterranean through the Golden Age of Caribbean piracy to modern piracy, using a slide presentation, worksheets, and a crossword puzzle.
Provide an ESL/English reading comprehension lesson plan built around a short biography of the poet Robert Frost.
K-5 emergency substitute-teacher lesson plan bundle providing no-prep, independent-work packets across ELA, math, science, and social studies for use when a classroom teacher is absent.
A full-day substitute-teacher lesson-plan package built around the Great Lakes, combining reading comprehension, social studies, writing, and math activities into a single scheduled school day.
An advanced ESL/ELA lesson plan built around a short story titled 'Who Am I?' (about a character named Tom struggling with identity), with comprehension and grammar exercises.
An editable week-long lesson plan template themed around Clifford the Big Red Dog, helping preschool teachers plan a week of Clifford-related activities across learning centers.
An emergency (substitute-ready) lesson plan for grades 3-4 built around a short story about a child overcoming fear of bike riding, with comprehension and figurative-language activities.
A nonfiction reading-comprehension passage about animal life on the African savanna, packaged as a ready-to-use substitute-teacher lesson plan.