Category: Language Arts

  • Abraham Lincoln | Informational Text
    $2.00

    This informational resource on Abraham Lincoln is designed to give 5th – 7th graders practice reading and comprehending content area text. There are two pages of text which will cover Lincoln’s life beginning in Kentucky and progresses through his life touching on his family, his career as a lawyer, his election in 1860 and finally his death by the hands of John Wilkes Booth. After reading both the text and two charts (quick facts and fun facts), students will complete a comprehension worksheet. Finally, there is a fun postcard writing activity asking them to write to President Lincoln.

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  • Emma (Jane Austen)
    $2.50

    This is a downloadable copy of the book.
    About the book: Jane Austen was at the height of her artistic powers when she wrote Emma, the fourth and last of her works to be published during her lifetime. The novel is a lively comedy of manners populated by some of Austen’s most entertaining and memorable characters, and it showcases her technical skills as a mature and experimental writer.

    About the Author: Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen’s plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favorable social standing and economic security.

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  • Immigration – Ellis Island – US History Informational Text
    $3.00

    This resource, Immigration – Ellis Island – US History Informational Text, has SIX parts: The Early Days, 1892-1954 Gateway to the United States, The Immigrant Experience, Why They Came, From WWII to the Present and Ellis Island Name Change Myth.

    In each part, students will have one page of informational text and then a page of multiple choice questions plus one essay question to assess understanding / comprehension. Answer Keys provided.

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  • December Writing Prompts
    December Writing Prompts Journal
    $5.00

    This Monthly Writing Prompts Journal is for the month of December and has been designed to help students think, create and express their own ideas and opinions on a variety of topics.

    There is a separate journal page for each day of the month that provides students with writing prompt. Some prompts a light-hearted while others are designed to make students critically think about issues, values, etc.

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  • The Pathfinder (Cooper)
    $2.50

    This is a downloadable copy of the book.
    About the book: It is the fourth novel Cooper wrote featuring Natty Bumppo, his fictitious frontier hero, and the third chronological episode of the Leatherstocking Tales. The Pathfinder shows Natty at his old trick of guiding tender damsels through the dangerous woods, and the siege at the blockhouse and the storm on Lake Ontario are considerably like other of Cooper’s sieges and storms. Natty, in this novel commonly called the Pathfinder, keeps in a hardy middle age his simple and honest nature, which is severely tested by his love for a nineteen year old young woman. She is a conventional heroine of romance. A certain soft amiability about her turns for a time all the thoughts of the scout to the world of domestic affections. More talkative than ever before, he reveals new mental and moral traits. With the same touch of realism which had kept Uncas and Cora apart in The Last of the Mohicans, Cooper separates these lovers, and sends Natty’s romantic interest to the arms of a younger suitor, restoring the hero to his home in the wilderness.

    About the Author: James Fenimore Cooper was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century. His historical romances draw a picture of frontier and American Indian life in the early American days which created a unique form of American literature.

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  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
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    This is a downloadable copy of the book.
    About the book: It tells of a young girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre.

    About the Author: Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of world-famous children’s fiction, notably Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass. He was noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy. The poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. He was also a mathematician, photographer, and Anglican deacon. (Lewis Carroll is a pen name – Given name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)

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  • New Year’s Day Informational Text and Crossword Puzzle
    $1.25

    Whether late December or early January, this holiday resource will provide your students with a quick lesson on New Year’s Day. After they read the passage, their attention to detail is accessed as they answer five short answer questions and then complete a crossword puzzle.

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  • Out of the Dust (1998) Book Unit
    $2.00

    This resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

    This resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

    About the book (Not included):
    Out of the Dust is a verse novel by Karen Hesse, first published in 1997 and the recipient of the 1998 Newbery Award. A poem cycle that reads as a novel, Out of the Dust tells the story of a girl named Billie Jo, who struggles to help her family survive the dust-bowl years of the Depression. Fighting against the elements on her Oklahoma farm, Billie Jo takes on even more responsibilities when her mother dies in a tragic accident.

    Interest level:
    Grades 5 – 8    		 Reading level:
    Grades 5 – 8

     

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  • science articles - comprehension - skeletal system worksheets
    Skeletal System | Anatomy Articles
    $3.00

    This ANATOMY / BIOLOGY / HEALTH resource contains 3 informational text articles (each with comprehension questions followings) and a bonus labeled poster! These articles can be used in any Science class or in a Language Arts / Reading classroom. Use as standalone mini-lessons or as supplemental activities, homework or in centers.

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  • Reading Strategy Posters | Set of 8
    Reading Strategy Posters | Set of 8
    $1.50

    Set of 8 classroom posters naming different reading strategies:

    • Author’s purpose
    • Summarizing
    • Connecting
    • Compare and Contrast
    • Inference
    • Questioning
    • Visualizing
    • Predicting
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  • Grammar Review 2 | Rules and More
    $3.00

    15 worksheet activities to help students practice and reinforce important Grammar skills!

    Here are the skills covered:
    1. Proofreading – Spotting incomplete sentences, spelling mistakes, capitalization
    2. Using punctuation correctly – periods, commas, quotation marks
    3. Writing to inform: Correct sequencing, adding supporting evidence, descriptive writing, title creation
    4. Writing dialogue
    5. Using Tense correctly – past, present, future
    6. Perspective – 1st, 2nd and 3rd person
    7. Homophones

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  • Jack and Jill | Louisa May Alcott
    $2.50

    This is a downloadable copy of the book.
    About the book: A Village Story by Louisa May Alcott, is a children’s book originally published in 1880. It takes place in a small New England town after the Civil War. The story of two good friends named Jack and Janey, Jack and Jill tells of the aftermath of a serious sledding accident.

    About the Author: Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo’s Boys.

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  • Sarah, Plain and Tall (1986) Book Unit
    $2.00

    This resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters..

    About the book (Not included):
    Sarah, Plain and Tall was written by Patricia MacLachlan, and the winner of the 1986 Newbery Medal, the 1986 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction and the 1986 Golden Kite Award. It explores themes of loneliness, abandonment, and coping with change.

    Interest level:
    Grades 4 – 8    		 Reading level:
    Grades 2 – 5

     

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  • Learning about the Muscular System | Reading Comprehension
    $2.00

    Students will read about the muscular system and learn facts such as how many muscles are in the body, what are muscle fibers, the three different types of muscles and much more. After reading and learning about the body / human anatomy, students will answer multiple choice questions.

    Also included: A research and writing activity that may be assigned at your discretion!

    Answer Key provided.

    Reading level:
    Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 5.3
    Linsear Write Formula : 5.1

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  • Maniac Magee (1991) Book Unit
    $2.00

    This resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters..

    About the book (Not included):
    Maniac Magee is a novel written by American author Jerry Spinelli and published in 1990. Exploring themes of racism and homelessness, it follows the story of an orphan boy looking for a home in the fictional Pennsylvania town of Two Mills. He becomes a local legend for feats of athleticism and fearlessness, and his ignorance of sharp racial boundaries in the town. It is popular in elementary school curricula, and has been used in scholarly studies on the relationship of children to racial identity and reading. 

    Reading level: 5th Grade

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  • The One and Only Ivan Book Activities
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    This resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters as well as vocabulary activities. (25 pages – Answer Keys provided)

    About the book (Not included):

    This stirring and unforgettable novel from renowned author Katherine Applegate celebrates the transformative power of unexpected friendships. Inspired by the true story of a captive gorilla known as Ivan, this illustrated novel is told from the point of view of Ivan himself.

    Having spent 27 years behind the glass walls of his enclosure in a shopping mall, Ivan has grown accustomed to humans watching him. He hardly ever thinks about his life in the jungle. Instead, Ivan occupies himself with television, his friends Stella and Bob, and painting. But when he meets Ruby, a baby elephant taken from the wild, he is forced to see their home, and his art, through new eyes.

     

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  • Heidi (Spyri)
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    This is a downloadable copy of the book.
    About the book: Heidi is one of the best-selling books ever written and is among the best-known works of Swiss literature. We meet Heidi when she is 5, led up the mountain by her aunt who has raised the orphan but must leave now for a position in Frankfurt. In a mountain cottage overlooking the valley is Heidi’s grandfather, and there with him the girl’s sweet, free nature expands with the vista. When Heidi is taken from the mountains and nearly doesn’t make it back again, the most humorous as well as most heart-wringing scenes occur. All she learns during her absence from the mountain she brings back as seeds that will grow to benefit everyone around her.

    About the Author:  Johanna Louise was a Swiss-born author of novels, notably children’s stories, and is best known for her book Heidi. Born in Hirzel, a rural area in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers near Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels.

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  • Hispanic American Biography Research and Report
    $3.75

    Have your students complete a biographical research report on a Hispanic American with the help of this resource. Your students may need some guidance in the planning, organizing and presenting a wonderful project, so I have included several thing to aid them.

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  • Little Men | Louisa May Alcott
    $2.50

    This is a downloadable copy of the book.
    About the book: The novel reprises characters from Little Women and is considered by some the second book of an unofficial Little Women trilogy, which is completed with Alcott’s 1886 novel Jo’s Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to “Little Men”. Little Men tells the story of Jo Bhaer and the children at Plumfield Estate School. The book was inspired by the death of Alcott’s brother-in-law, which reveals itself in one of the last chapters, when a beloved character from Little Women passes away.

    About the Author: Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer and poet best known as the author of the novel Little Women and its sequels Little Men and Jo’s Boys.

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