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$1.50Add to CartThis article will help students understand about the famous American pilot, Amelia Earhart. This product includes one page of informational text. After students read the text, there is a graphic organizer to complete and a short (7 question) multiple choice reading comprehension assessment.
This product can be a quick mini-lesson on the life of Earhart or the springboard to a more in-depth study. This product is recommended for 5th-6th graders based on the ARI (Automated Readability Index) of 6.80.
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About the book: When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle, everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen…So begins the famous opening of one of the world’s best-loved children’s stories. First published in 1911, this is the poignant tale of a lonely little girl, orphaned and sent to a Yorkshire mansion at the edge of a vast lonely moor. At first, she is frightened by this gloomy place, but with the help of the local boy Dickon, who earns the trust of the moor’s wild animals with his honesty and love, the invalid Colin, a spoiled, unhappy boy terrified of life, and a mysterious, abandoned garden, Mary is eventually overcome by the mystery of life itself—its birth and renewal, its love and joy.
Interest Level Reading Level Grades 4 – 8 Grades 5 – 10 -
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About the book: Flower fables was the first work published by Louisa May Alcott and appeared on December 4, 1849. The book was a compilation of fanciful stories first written seven years earlier for Ellen Emerson.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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This is a .pdf downloadable copy of the book: A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
Dickens’ best-known work of historical fiction, with over 200 million copies sold A Tale of Two Cities is regularly cited as the best-selling novel of all time. A Tale of Two Cities is an 1859 historical novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. The novel tells the story of the French Doctor Manette, his 18-year-long imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris and his release to live in London with his daughter Lucie, whom he had never met. The story is set against the conditions that led up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.
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This John Cabot resource is perfect for a quick World History lesson or a Language Arts lesson! Cabot’s was an Italian navigator and explorer. His 1497 discovery of the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII of England is the earliest known European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century. Students will enjoy learning more about this explorer and how he too (like Columbus) thought he had sailed to the Far East!
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This engaging literature unit for the chapter book, “Little House on the Prairie” by Laura Ingalls Wilder offers a reading journal, vocabulary work, discussion questions, writing assignments and 10 reading comprehension quizzes (with keys). Designed to keep students thoughtfully engaged. 55 pages.
👈Book not included. Click to purchase the bookAbout the book: Little House on the Prairie was the third novel published in the Little House series, continuing the story of the first, Little House in the Big Woods (1932), but not related to the second. Thus, it is sometimes called the second one in the series, or the second volume of “the Laura Years”.
Interest Level:
Grades 4 – 8Reading Level:
Grades 4 – 5BUNDLE & SAVE: Little House of the Prairie Literature BUNDLE | Laura Ingalls Wilder
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This informational article will inform students about the history behind and the symbolism of the Olympic rings. After reading one page of text, student comprehension will be assessed by answering 11 short answer questions. There is also a fun, creative project included.
Automated Readability Index: 6.2
Grade level: 10-11 yrs. olds (Fifth and Sixth graders) -
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An informational text to both inform students about the first Thanksgiving as well as assess there reading comprehension.
The text gives students a clear understanding of the history behind the holiday we call ‘Thanksgiving’ as well as how it is a story of struggle, hope and resilience. Students will learn that many people groups (including Native Americans and Europeans) celebrated with harvest festivals for thousands of years before the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock. They will learn why history records the Pilgrims’ event as the ‘first Thanksgiving’ and what it symbolized for the people. They’ll also learn that Sarah Hale (during the Civil War) petitioned for a national celebration and which president declared it a national holiday and why!
This resource includes:
- -2 pages of informational text (Key ideas: harvest festivals, celebration of success, hope and gratitude / Historical references: Plymouth festival with the pilgrims and the Wampanoag, Sarah Hale (and her petition for a national celebration of Thanksgiving) as well as President Lincoln.)
- -3 pages to assess reading comprehension (short answer and short essay)
- -Answer key
Flesch Reading Ease score: 70.5 (text scale)
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 7.9
Automated Readability Index: 9.1 -
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This Alamo Reading Comprehension will give students a good understanding of the historic battle and have students answer questions after reading the passage. Students will learn the following about the Alamo: What is it? Where is it? What happened there? What is it today?
Cross-curricular (Reading / History) – As students read for understanding they will be learning about an important landmark and event in U.S. History. After reading, students will answer multiple choice, short answer and short essay questions.
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 4.9
Grade level: Fifth Grade -
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This informational article will teach students about the sand dollar. They will learn that the little round, coin-shaped shell found on the beach is actually part of a marine animal, related to sea urchins and sea stars. They will also learn how living sand dollars move, that they aren’t ‘white’, how and what they eat and much more. After reading, students will complete two worksheets (multiple choice and short answer) to assess their comprehension / understanding of the material. Answer Key is provided.
Automated Readability Index: 4.8
Grade level: 8-9 yrs. old (Fourth and Fifth graders)
Linsear Write Formula : 5.6
Grade level: Sixth Grade. -
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Since 1836, children have been delighted by these volumes filled with exotic adventures, exciting stories, beautiful poems, and funny fables. The Sixth Eclectic Reader includes selections from Patrick Henry, Sir Walter Scott, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and William Shakespeare.
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About the book: A poem typically categorized as a nonsense poem. Written from 1874 to 1876, the poem borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight portmanteau words from Carroll’s earlier poem “Jabberwocky” in his children’s novel Through the Looking-Glass (1871).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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About the book: The story is narrated in the first person as an autobiographical memoir told by the titular horse named Black Beauty—beginning with his carefree days as a colt on an English farm with his mother, to his difficult life pulling cabs in London, to his happy retirement in the country. Along the way, he meets with many hardships and recounts many tales of cruelty and kindness. Each short chapter recounts an incident in Black Beauty’s life containing a lesson or moral typically related to the kindness, sympathy, and understanding treatment of horses, with Sewell’s detailed observations and extensive descriptions of horse behavior lending the novel a good deal of verisimilitude.
About the Author: Anna Sewell was an English novelist. She is well known as the author of the 1877 novel Black Beauty, which is now considered one of the top ten bestselling novels for children ever written, although it was intended at the time for an adult audience.
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Biography & Literary Analysis – Arthur Miller
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This informational text article is all about seals, where they live, their physical characteristics and about several different types of this cold-water mammal. After reading, students will complete a reading comprehension worksheet and (optional) write a story! Answer key provided.
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About the book: The Story of Doctor Dolittle, (Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts) (1920), written and illustrated by the British author Hugh Lofting, is the first of his Doctor Dolittle books, a series of children’s novels about a man who learns to talk to animals and becomes their champion around the world. It was one of the novels in the series which was adapted into the film Doctor Dolittle.About the Author: Hugh John Lofting was an English author trained as a civil engineer, who created the classic children’s character of Doctor Dolittle. Dolittle first appeared in Lofting’s illustrated letters to his children, written from the British Army trenches in World War I. He travelled widely as a civil engineer, before enlisting in the Irish Guards regiment of the British Army to serve in the First World War. Not wishing to write to his children about the brutality of the war, he wrote imaginative letters which later became the foundation of the successful Doctor Dolittle novels for children.
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Daniel Boone is regarded as the first real American folk hero. Without his cunning bravery, settlement west of the Appalachians may not have been made possible for years. Boone’s Wilderness Road, which is still used today, helped bridge the Cumberland Gap, granting access to the state of Kentucky from Pennsylvania.
Thanks to the writing of John S. C. Abbot, the life and genius of Boone can truly be appreciated through Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky. Find out just how Boone crafted his Wilderness Trail, what he did to make it happen, and how he overcame the struggles of life in late eighteenth century America.
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This book unit (Holes by Lousi Sachar) provides reading comprehension questions, vocabulary work and discussion questions in which students will be tasked with writing their answers.
There are 22 pages and split into groups of chapters for ease of assignment/use:
- Chapters 1-5
- Chapters 6-10
- Chapters 11-16
- Chapters 17-22
- Chapters 23-28
- Chapters 29-33
- Chapters 34-39
- Chapters 40-45
- Chapters 46-50
Also included: Extended activity ideas and answer keys
About the book:
Holes is a 1998 novel written by Louis Sachar. It won the 1998 U.S. National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year’s “most distinguished contribution to American literature for children”. The story centers on an unlucky teenage boy named Stanley Yelnats, who is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile corrections facility in a desert in Texas, after being falsely accused of theft. The plot explores the history of the area and how the actions of several characters in the past have affected Stanley’s life in the present. These interconnecting stories touch on themes such as racism, homelessness, illiteracy, and arranged marriage.Interest level:
Grades 4 – 8Reading level:
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This resource contains a variety of literary works from authors such as Walt Whitman, George Cabot Lodge, and Edith M. Thomas.
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