Category: Reading

  • 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
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    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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  • Jack and Jill | Louisa May Alcott
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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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  • Little Men | Louisa May Alcott
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    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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  • Herman Melville – Biography & Literary Analysis
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    Biography & Literary Analysis – Herman Melville
    397 pages

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  • Poems Teachers Ask For – Volume 1
    $3.00

    An anthology of poems by English and American poets including Drake, Longfellow, Bryant, Tennyson, Wolfe and many more.

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  • Jellyfish Informational Article and Worksheets
    Jellyfish Informational Text and Activities
    $2.50

    Help students develop their reading comprehension while building vocabulary and content knowledge plus practice their writing skills using this cross-curricular resource based on jellyfish! You can use this resource to reinforce Language Arts skills while teaching about sea life – the jellyfish.

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  • The Midwife’s Apprentice (1996) Book Units
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    This resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters.

    About the book (Not included):
    The Midwife’s Apprentice is a children’s novel by Karen Cushman. It tells of how a homeless girl becomes a midwife’s apprentice—and establishes a name and a place in the world, and learns to hope and overcome failure. This novel won the John Newbery Medal in 1996.

    Interest level:
    Grades 4 – 8    		 Reading level:
    Grades 6 – 12

     

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  • Jo’s Boys | Louisa May Alcott
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    This is a downloadable copy of the book.
    About the book: The book mostly follows the lives of Plumfield boys who were introduced in Little Men, particularly Tommy, Emil, Demi, Nat, Dan, and Professor Bhaer and Jo’s sons Rob and Teddy, although the others make frequent appearances as well. The book takes place ten years after Little Men.

    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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  • A Year Down Yonder (2001) Book Unit
    $2.00

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

    About the book (Not included):
    A Year Down Yonder is a novel by Richard Peck published in 2000 and won the Newbery Medal in 2001.
    The Great Depression is finally over in 1937, but times are still hard. Because her parents cannot care for her while they struggle to regain their financial footing back in Chicago, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice is sent to live with her Grandma Dowdel in a small town in southern Illinois…

    Interest level: Grades 4 – 8 Reading level: Grades 4 – 8
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  • An Old-Fashioned Girl | Louisa May Alcott
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    This is a downloadable copy of the book.
    About the book: An Old-Fashioned Girl is a novel by Louisa May Alcott. It was first serialised in the Merry’s Museum magazine between July and August in 1869 and consisted of only six chapters. For the finished product, however, Alcott continued the story from the chapter “Six Years Afterwards” and so it ended up with nineteen chapters in all. The book turns around Polly Milton, the old-fashioned girl who titles the story.

    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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  • Moby Dick: Or, The White Whale (Herman Melville)
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    Moby-Dick, written in 1851, recounts the adventures of the narrator Ishmael as he sails on the whaling ship, Pequod, under the command of the monomaniacal Captain Ahab. Melville dedicated the book to fellow Dark Romantic, Nathaniel Hawthorne: “In token of my admiration for his genius, this book is inscribed to Nathaniel Hawthorne.”

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  • George Orwell – Biography and Literary Analysis
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    Biography and Literary Analysis – George Orwell
    454 pages

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  • The Giver (1994) Book Unit
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    This resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters..

    About the book (Not included):
    The Giver is a 1993  novel by Lois Lowry. It is set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses. The novel follows a 12-year-old boy named Jonas. The society has taken away pain and strife by converting to “Sameness”, a plan that has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of Receiver of Memory, the person who stores all the past memories of the time before Sameness, as there may be times where one must draw upon the wisdom gained from history to aid the community’s decision making. Jonas struggles with concepts of all the new emotions and things introduced to him: whether they are inherently good, evil, or in between, and whether it is even possible to have one without the other. The Community lacks any color, memory, climate, or terrain, all in an effort to preserve structure, order, and a true sense of equality beyond personal individuality.

    Interest level:
    Grades 4 – 8    		 Reading level:
    Grades 3 – 8
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