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$2.75Add to CartLooking for an effective way to teach the Phases of the Moon to your middle to high school students? Looking for a no-prep, printable resource that makes teaching space science a breeze? The Phases of the Moon Reading Comprehension (informational text) resource is your perfect solution! You’ll love the ability to use this resource as a one-day, quick lesson or how easily it can integrate into your existing curriculum, providing clear explanations and reinforcing key concepts.
✨ What’s Included:
- – Detailed reading passages explaining the phases of the moon: new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, last quarter, and waning crescent.
- – Information on the days to complete the cycle and the concepts of synchronous rotation and tidal locking.
- – A comprehensive assessment featuring short answer and multiple-choice quiz questions.
- – An easy-to-use answer key for quick grading.
✅ Perfect For…
- – Introducing or reviewing the Phases of the Moon in middle school science classes.
- – No-prep science lesson
- – Reinforcing reading comprehension skills within a science context.
This resource is built upon the pedagogical approach of making real-world connections to science. By explaining the observable phenomenon of the moon’s changing appearance, students can directly relate the concepts to their everyday experiences.
📚 Learning Objectives
- Students will be able to identify and describe the eight major phases of the moon.
- Students will understand the relationship between the Earth, Moon, and Sun that causes the different moon phases.
- Students will be able to explain the concept of synchronous rotation and tidal locking.
- Students will be able to determine the approximate duration of the lunar cycle.
- Students will improve their reading comprehension skills by extracting key information from scientific text.
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$42.00Add to Cart✏️Student-centered units that includes 15 projects surrounding important women in U.S. History. These units will help students learn and practice research skills, report writing, project and presentation skills.
✏️Students will use these 15 project-based units to learn about and create reports and presentations on the following people:
- Anne Hutchinson
- Anne Bradstreet
- Deborah Sampson
- Lady Deborah Moody
- Molly Pitcher
- Mary Barrett Dyer
- Margaret Brent
- Sojourner Truth
- Rosa Park
- Mary Rowlandson
- Mercy Otis Warren
- Phillis Wheatley
- Abigail Adams
- Harriet Tubman
- Maya Angelo
✏️These notebooking projects can be assigned individually or within cooperative groups. Use them within a Language Arts classroom or a Social Studies / U.S. History classroom. Very flexible and cross-curricular!
After completing the written portion of each resource, you can grade it (or) assign students to do an oral and/or audio-visual presentation based on their findings/work.
✏️What is in each unit?
- Student instructions for using biographical notebooking, project pages
- Suggested research questions
- Student notebooking, project pages (includes covers, KWL, reference recording, report writing, and more)
- Teacher pages (instructions, assignment, evaluation)
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Henry Ford was an inventor, innovator, industrialist, and entrepreneur. In this resource, students will read about Ford’s life and business journey.
After reading, students will be asked a series of questions (multiple choice and short answer) to assess comprehension.
Students will learn:
- – About Henry’s family and early life
- – What he did at the age of 16
- – When he went to, left and then returned to Detroit
- – How he was first involved in car manufacturing and when he started Ford Motor Company
- – How is business practices made a huge stir in the country
- – One of his biggest challenges…and more!
Answer Key included!
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Planning for your student(s) to read and study Judy Blume’s Fudge series of books? Here is a fun and engaging BUNDLE that includes unit studies for each of the books!
The 5 Fudge books covered in this bundle:
- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
- Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great
- Superfudge
- Fudge-a-mania
- Double Fudge
Each unit includes:
- – Daily reading journal – Students will be asked to journal new or important words, characters in that day’s reading, a summary of what happened, to make a prediction of what will happen next and additional notes.
- – Vocabulary word wall (49 Words)
- – Vocabulary definitions worksheet
- – Crossword puzzle
- – 2 Analogy worksheets (critical thinking)
- – 2 Different comprehension assessments (can use one or both) – The first assessment is all multiple choice and covers basic story details. – The second assessment is more extensive and includes multiple choice, short and answer questions, an essay question, a character match and even a drawing component!
- – Answer keys
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Haiku is a Japanese poetry form and uses just a few words to capture a moment and to create a picture in the reader’s mind! This resource will teach students how to write a Haiku and includes a teaching poster, 20 Fall related picture prompts and 37 different publishing papers for students!
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This is an in-depth novel study of Louis Sachar’s Holes in which students will delve into literary elements of the book, analyze various topics and themes, write arguments and opinions, conduct research and more! This unit is designed for advanced 6th-8th graders and High School students.
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This unit is designed to give students practice reading and answering questions on the given scientific and historic informational provided in the text. The main subject of the text: Spring migration of swallows returning to the historic Mission San Juan Capistrano. After reading, students will be asked to answer multiple choice and short answer questions.
For further expansion of the lesson, there are 6 math word problems and a research, writing assignment.
Readability Grades:
- Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 6.1
- Gunning Fog Index: 7.7
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This generic novel study unit can be used with any book and includes multiple ways to engage students and encourage reading comprehension! It is a great tool to study literature as students focus on literary elements like setting, plot, characterization, conflict, resolution and theme in an interactive way!
View a flipbook preview here PLUS see a list of what you’ll get in this product in the description below…
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Help students dive into new text and get the most from their reading by using Guided Note Taking.
This resource will walk students through a process of reading the text 3 times.
Each time they read, they will be asked to perform a specific task:
- – The first time they read, students are asked to identify and write down important terms.
- – During the second reading, they are asked to identify important concepts and ideas. For this task, they are given lined paper as well as a page for illustrations.
- – During the third reading, students are asked to define the important terms they identified during their first reading.
This product can be used for any subject and used again and again!
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Help students learn about Washington State’s Space Needle in Seattle with this reading comprehension worksheet for 5th-7th grades. This resource includes informational text, a reading comprehension worksheet and answer key.
Flesch-Kincaid grade level: 6.0
Automated Readability Index: 5.8
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Help students learn over 200 new vocabulary words as they read Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice. Includes student handouts, puzzles and assessments. This resource breaks up new vocabulary by chapter and is in 5 different sections. Each section contains a student handout of words with definitions, crossword puzzles and section quizzes. At the end, there are two different vocabulary finals (each with 100 questions). Answer keys to all puzzles, quizzes and assessments are included!
This resource is not a complete novel study guide but only focuses on the vocabulary within the book. If you are looking for a complete novel study, go to:
Pride and Prejudice Novel Study
(Please Note: This vocabulary resource is contained within the complete novel study. You do not need this resource if you have the complete novel study.)
Download of the Novel here on My Teaching Library:
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Complete novel study for Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (196 pages). Includes:
– Author’s Biography
– Novel Introduction
– Characters and Themes
– Quotes and Analysis
– Teaching Guides dividing the novel into 5 sections w/
* Chapter Summaries, Thought Questions and Vocabulary
* Student Handouts
* Student Worksheets, Assessments & Keys
– Final AssessmentsClick here for a pdf preview instant download!
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This is a country study resource on the South American country of Uruguay focusing on the 5 Themes of Geography! There are a lot of country studies but this one is different.
This study will ask students to ‘think like a geographer‘ in their research and recording. Using this resource, students will…
- – Learn about the country of Uruguay
- – Demonstrate knowledge of and ability to synthesize information and write about Uruguay through a 5 themes of geography lens.
- – Create a wonderful project displaying their learning.
Sample questions include:
- – (Location) Describe the relative location of the country.
- – (Location) What is the latitude and longitude of the capital city?
- – (Place) What major landforms are found in the country?
- – (Place) What is/are the climate type(s) of the country?
- – (Regions) When considering this country, describe and give examples of at least one type of functional region within it.
- – (Movement) Describe any historically important migration patterns of information you have found about past or current migration for this country. You may include internal, external migration, emigration, immigration, return and/or seasonal migration.
- – (Human/Environmental Integration) Give examples of how people who have lived in this country chanted or modified the environment.
There are many more questions and this unit is designed to get your students thinking like a geographer!!
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A Day in History – Investigation Station is a series of fun sleuthing research and writing activities based on a single event on a specific day in history! This resource focuses on the day that Martin Luther King, Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize (October 14, 1964).
Students will learn about an event and be given several topics from which to choose to ‘investigate’. After some exploration, students are asked to write what they have discovered and name used sources.
So…with each lesson, students will:
▪ (Read) Learn one ‘On this Day in History’ fact.
▪ (Investigate) Take a related topic and explore it through the use of different forms of media (i.e. books, internet).
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This science vocabulary resource is designed to help students learn and then assess their knowledge of 28 middle school level words.
Includes:
* Words with definitions
* Definitions Worksheet
* Multiple Choice Worksheet
* Vocabulary Quiz 1
* Vocabulary Quiz 2
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This science resource is designed to help students study 28 important weather / atmosphere terms. It includes the words, definitions and a crossword puzzle.
(See description below for the included vocabulary words)
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This middle school science and vocabulary resource includes a variety of fun word puzzles to engage students as they learn 28 important words and definitions.
Resource includes:
* Word list with definitions
* Word Search (Differentiated – Use with only ‘clues’ or with given words)
* Framework Puzzle
* Word Scramble (Differentiated – Use with only ‘clues’ or with given words)
* Word Maze Puzzle (Differentiated – Use with only ‘clues’ or with given words)
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This vocabulary and science resource, designed for middle school students, includes 28 words with definitions.
(See description below for a list of the words)
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This writing prompt will explain to students ‘who’ is a hero and ask them to write a bout a hero or heroic event in their lives or centered around September 11th.
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Give your students a fun way to strengthen their knowledge of literary terms. This Elements of Literature Crossword puzzle will give students definitions of 20 terms and students must complete the puzzle using the correct terms. I have included an optional word bank (separate page), for students who may need the terms.
