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$2.50Buy NowThis 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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$1.25Buy NowWhether 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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$2.00Buy NowThis 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.
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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 – 8Reading level:
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$3.00Buy NowThis 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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$1.50Buy NowSet of 8 classroom posters naming different reading strategies:
- Author’s purpose
- Summarizing
- Connecting
- Compare and Contrast
- Inference
- Questioning
- Visualizing
- Predicting
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$3.00Buy Now15 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
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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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$4.00Buy NowThis resource will help students learn about Eli Whitney, the man, his inventions and his impact on the U.S. economy.
Unit includes…
- – Informational articles on Whitney, the cotton gin, cotton, and his economic influence
- – Worksheets to assess understanding of material
- – 10 Notebooking / Report pages
- – Answer Keys
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$2.00Buy NowThis resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters..
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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.
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Grades 4 – 8Reading level:
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$2.00Buy NowStudents 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 -
$8.00Buy NowHelp students master an important life skill, map reading, with this geography resource! It includes maps of 35 countries from around the world and students will practice identifying direction, using a scale of miles/km, reading & using a map key, finding places and determining specific information from given information, calculate distance and more!
This product is designed for 3th-5th grades but can be a good edition for 6th-8th graders who need extra practicing reading maps! -
$2.00Buy NowThis resource offers vocabulary work, reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters..
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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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$3.00Buy NowGeorge Washington Carver was an American agricultural scientist and inventor. He actively promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. Apart from his work to improve the lives of farmers, Carver was also a leader in promoting environmentalism. He received numerous honors for his work, including the Spingarn Medal of the NAACP. In an era of high racial polarization, his fame reached beyond the black community. He was widely recognized and praised in the white community for his many achievements and talents. In 1941, Time magazine dubbed Carver a “Black Leonardo”.
If you are looking for a student centered resource to help students learn and practice research skills, report writing skills, project skills, presentation skills and more. Use it within a Language Arts classroom or a Social Studies / U.S. History classroom. Very flexible and cross-curricular!
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$2.00Buy NowThis resource offers reading comprehension and discussion questions about the story and characters as well as vocabulary activities. (25 pages – Answer Keys provided)
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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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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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$3.75Buy NowHave 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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$3.00Buy NowThis 21 page resource will take students step by step through a guided identification process for invertebrates. This key is designed for 6th – 12th grades.
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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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$3.00Buy NowBiography & Literary Analysis – Herman Melville
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$9.99Buy NowTeacher’s Guide for Language Arts 1 (suggested 6th Grade use)
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