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Students explore the challenging, often misunderstood medical field of Mental Illness. Students come to terms with difficult topics such as schizophrenia, depression, suicide and eating disorders through the knowledge-based material in the unit. The activities and worksheets included in our unit follow closely with the material in part one. Part two encourages students to contemplate the concepts contained in the unit as they design their own exam. Part three adds flexibility to our unit, suggesting assignments that could be coordinated with the core lesson topics, used as enrichment, or used at the end of the unit as culminating activities. This Health lesson provides a teacher and student section with a variety of reading passages, activities, crossword, word search and answer key to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

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In this Literature KitTM, we divide the novel by chapters or sections and feature reading comprehension and vocabulary questions. In every chapter, we include Before You Read and After You Read questions. The Before You Read activities prepare students for reading by setting a purpose for reading. They stimulate background knowledge and experience, and guide students to make connections between what they know and what they will learn. The After You Read activities check students' comprehension and extend their learning. Students are asked to give thoughtful consideration of the text through creative and evaluative short-answer questions and journal prompts. Also included are writing tasks, graphic organizers, comprehension quiz, word search, and crossword to further develop students' critical thinking and writing skills, and analysis of the text. About the Novel: This is one of Farley Mowats funniest books about a boy and two rescued owls named Wol and Weeps. Billy loves all animals. He has rats, mice, over thirty gophers and two dogs. It only seems natural that Billy and his friends search the sloughs and bluffs to find owlets. The boys rescue a pair of owlets from an untimely death and end up keeping them for over three years. The adventures Billy, his friends and the owls have together are not typical. Participating in the local Pet Parade, owls following him to school and having an owl arrive for dinner with a skunk are only a few funny incidents in Owls in the Family. The story is a hoot! All of our content meets the Common Core State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

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The View From Saturday (E.L. Konigsburg)

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In this Literature KitTM, we divide the novel by chapters or sections and feature reading comprehension and vocabulary questions. In every chapter, we include Before You Read and After You Read questions. The Before You Read activities prepare students for reading by setting a purpose for reading. They stimulate background knowledge and experience, and guide students to make connections between what they know and what they will learn. The After You Read activities check students' comprehension and extend their learning. Students are asked to give thoughtful consideration of the text through creative and evaluative short-answer questions and journal prompts. Also included are writing tasks, graphic organizers, comprehension quiz, word search, and crossword to further develop students' critical thinking and writing skills, and analysis of the text. About the Novel: The View From Saturday is a Newbery Medal winning story about four gifted students and their life-altering journeys. Noah, Nadia, Ethan and Julian make up the four members of The Souls, a group of 6th grade students competing in the Academic Bowl. Led by Mrs. Olinski, their teacher who has become a paraplegic after a serious car crash, the group must face challenges that will shape their lives as they move through the competition. The story progresses through different perspectives given from each of the four members of The Souls. Each story, told in the first-person, describes an event that relates to a question they were asked in the Academic Bowl finals. Will The Souls successfully rise through the ranks to become state champions? All of our content meets the Common Core State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

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Let's Measure Up: Length, Time, Perimeter

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Make measuring of Length, Time and Perimeter a breeze with our activities that are designed to be used for the whole class or small group centers and can be used as extension activities or independent tasks. Some activities include: Meter Madness, Around the Room, Snake Olympics, Mini Measuring, Time Dominos and a one minute test.  Each of the 20 activities and 20 timed drill sheets has simple instructions that will allow each student to work independently and complete the task in a typical single class period. Required are simple Math materials such as blocks, rulers and centimetre cubes that can be found in most classrooms. This Math lesson provides a variety of worksheets creating a well-rounded lesson plan.

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For grades 6-8, our resource meets the algebraic concepts addressed by the NCTM standards and encourages the students to learn and review the concepts in unique ways. Each task sheet is organized around a central problem taken from real-life experiences of the students. The pages of this resource contain a variety in terms of levels of difficulty and content to provide students with a variety of differentiated learning opportunities. Included are opportunities for problem-solving, patterning, algebraic graphing, equations and determining averages. The task sheets offer space for reflection, and opportunity for the appropriate use of technology. Also contained are assessment and standards rubrics, review sheets, color activity posters and bonus worksheets. All of our content meets the Common Core State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy, STEM, and NCTM standards.

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Novel Study)

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is about a killer who breaks out of the prison in order to finish what he started years ago  to kill Harry Potter. Our unit provides teachers with a highly structured format for teaching language arts as students develop a love for reading longer materials like novels. Various areas such as reading comprehension, vocabulary development, spelling, grammar, and writing are all entwined in this integrated approach, eliminating the need for teaching these skills separately. This Novel Study provides a teacher and student section with a variety of activities, chapter questions and answer key to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

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The Great Gilly Hopkins (Katherine Paterson)

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In this Literature KitTM, we divide the novel by chapters or sections and feature reading comprehension and vocabulary questions. In every chapter, we include Before You Read and After You Read questions. The Before You Read activities prepare students for reading by setting a purpose for reading. They stimulate background knowledge and experience, and guide students to make connections between what they know and what they will learn. The After You Read activities check students' comprehension and extend their learning. Students are asked to give thoughtful consideration of the text through creative and evaluative short-answer questions and journal prompts. Also included are writing tasks, graphic organizers, comprehension quiz, word search, and crossword to further develop students' critical thinking and writing skills, and analysis of the text. About the Novel: A story about a bold and brazen eleven-year-old girl  and foster child  that has great expectations about life! Gilly runs away from her foster home looking for her real mother. Not finding her she begins to adjust to life with the foster family. On Thanksgiving weekend, Gilly is busy taking care of everyone as they had the flu, Gillys grandmother shows up. She has come to take Gilly to live with her in Virginia. Gilly must move to a new home against her will and realizes how she is loved at the foster house. Gilly learns many valuable life lessons, relationships and prejudice. She learns the importance of family, friendships, and what it means to be loved by those around her. All of our content meets the Common Core State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

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Take the fear out of writing essays and empower your students by giving them the tools to comprehensively express their point of view. Our workbook provides clear and concise lessons about every stage of the writing process. Based on Blooms taxonomy we offer instruction about the four most common types of essays and provide review lessons about verbs, adjectives and pronouns. You can use this material to supplement your present writing program or for independent student work. Also included is a detailed implementation guide, student assessment rubric, word puzzles and comprehension quiz. The six color graphic organizers will assist the introduction of the skill focus and in guiding your students through their successful writing process. All of our content meets the Common Core State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

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For grades 6-8, our resource meets the number & operations concepts addressed by the NCTM standards and encourages the students to learn and review the concepts in unique ways. Each task sheet is organized around a central problem taken from real-life experiences of the students. The pages of this resource contain a variety in terms of levels of difficulty and content so as to provide students with a variety of differentiated learning opportunities. Included are problems involving place value, fractions, addition, subtraction and using money. The task sheets offer space for reflection, and opportunity for the appropriate use of technology. Also contained are assessment and standards rubrics, review sheets, color activity posters and bonus worksheets. All of our content meets the Common Core State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy, STEM, and NCTM standards.

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Kids love Leo Lionni's books because they entertain and deal with emotions, feelings and issues that are important to kids, all at the same time. Our author study is designed to explore the award winning books and artwork of Leo Lionni. The order in which Leo Lionni's books are shared is entirely up to the teacher, building more flexibility into the unit. There are complete lessons including reproducible pages, activities and questions for each of the following books: The Alphabet Tree, Little Blue and Yellow, A Color Of His Own. An Extraordinary Egg, Frederick, The Greentail Mouse, Mr M. Mouse, Matthew's Dream, A Busy Year, Tillie And The Wall, Alexander and The Wind-Up Mouse, Geraldine, The Music Mouse, and much more. This Author Study provides a teacher and student section with a variety of activities, author biography, self-evaluation, story sequencing, and reader's theatre to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

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In this Literature KitTM, we divide the novel by chapters or sections and feature reading comprehension and vocabulary questions. In every chapter, we include Before You Read and After You Read questions. The Before You Read activities prepare students for reading by setting a purpose for reading. They stimulate background knowledge and experience, and guide students to make connections between what they know and what they will learn. The After You Read activities check students' comprehension and extend their learning. Students are asked to give thoughtful consideration of the text through creative and evaluative short-answer questions and journal prompts. Also included are writing tasks, graphic organizers, comprehension quiz, word search, and crossword to further develop students' critical thinking and writing skills, and analysis of the text. About the Novel: Kira-Kira (kee ra kee ra) is a Japanese word for glittering; shining. This unforgettable story is a coming-of-age tale of one familys difficulties in adapting to a post-World War II society that is reluctant to welcome a Japanese family that is laboring in Georgias poultry plants. The story features Katie, her older sister Lynn and their younger brother, Sammy. When Lynn grows ill and eventually dies, it makes Katie realize that she must assume even more responsibility. Removed from the shadow of her high-achieving older sister, she even begins to improve in her schoolwork. This Newbery Medal winner story deals with family relationships and the illness and death of a close family member in a sensitive, realistic manner. All of our content meets the Common Core State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

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This thematic unit will teach students about the powerful civilization of Ancient Rome and the many influences they have had on our modern world. The unit starts off with core teaching lessons to build a base for knowledge, followed by student worksheets that compliment the core lessons. Optional lessons are included to add a degree of flexibility and possible enrichment activities to the lesson. The unit finishes off with a major project that allows students to demonstrate further knowledge of Ancient Rome. This History lesson provides a teacher and student section with a variety of reading passages, activities, crossword, and answer key to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

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Unlock the mysteries of energy! Energy is more than the ability to do work; we present these concepts in a way that makes them more accessible to students and easier to understand. The best way to understand energy is to first look at all the different kinds of energy including: What Is Energy, Mechanical Energy, Thermal, Sound Energy and Waves, as well as Light Energy. Our resource provides ready-to-use information and activities for remedial students using simplified language and vocabulary. We also explore other forms of potential energy, as well as how energy moves and changes. Written to grade and comprised of reading passages, student activities and color mini posters, our resource can be used effectively for your whole-class. All of our content meets the Common Core State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEM initiatives.

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Escape From Big Muddy takes Liz Austen and her friend Marie on an unforgettable road trip across Saskatchewan aboard the Manana Banana, where they encounter a deadly world of kidnapping, international smuggling, and biker gangs with murder on their minds. Appealing to children's inherent keen interest in mystery, Eric Wilson has skillfully woven accurate Canadian geographic and historic information into his writing. As such, these novels lend themselves to the integrated study of the mystery genre with Canadian geography topics in social studies, and investigation units in science. Escape From Big Muddy provides rich material for the study of setting, characterization and plot development. This Novel Study provides a teacher and student section with a variety of activities, chapter questions, crossword, and answer key to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

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ARRRRR matey and shiver me timbers! There be a whole lot of fun going on with this here scallywag of a unit. Action-packed, interesting activities sure to keep students glued o their seats  otherwise they walk the plank! Our unit includes detailed suggested lesson plans, reproducible student booklet, parent pages, homework skills pages on phonics, describing words, fill-in-the-blank comprehension questions, ABC order, rhyming, synonyms, and compound words, pirate fact cards, group and individual word cards, pirate trivia game and more. This Primary Studies unit provides a teacher and student section with a variety of lessons, activities, crossword and word search to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

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Throughout our unit on air and water, children learn about the role of air in our environment, the air cycle, wind and the role it plays in our lives, plants and how they help us live, weather vanes, air pollution, the role of water in our environment, the water cycle, evaporation and condensation of water, rain gauges and water pollution. The unit starts off with a set of lesson plans for the teacher. Details are provided for the activities that the children participate in during each lesson. Then, the majority of the lessons center around the provided fact cards and discovery cards. The unit ends with a vocabulary match game and science fair project planning outline that are used during the lessons of the units. This Earth Science lesson provides a teacher and student section with a variety of reading passages, lessons, activities, crossword and word search to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

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Our Bear Themed Package contains the following units: Bing Bear's Balloons, Colour Bear, Good Shapes for a Hungry Bear, and I Love My Learning Centres. Included are: picture patterns to make a big book; picture patterns to make a little book; hands-on activity for number recognition; hands-on activity for colour recognition; Rebus Chant  Balloons; Bear name tags and word cards. Students will reinforce counting skills of numbers 1-8; will reinforce colour recognition skills; will develop creative thinking skills; will listen to a story; will participate in the telling of the story; will increase vocabulary of "eating" words; and will participate in a bookmaking activity. This Big Books lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, rebus chants, and big book assembly to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

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For grades 6-8, our resource meets the algebraic concepts addressed by the NCTM standards and encourages the students to review the concepts in unique ways. Each drill sheet contains warm-up and timed drill activities for the student to practice algebra concepts. The pages of this resource contain a variety in terms of levels of difficulty and content to provide students with a variety of differentiated learning opportunities. Included are questions involving patterning, solving equations using a variable, creating, simplifying and graphing an algebraic expression, finding a quotient, and writing a number as a scientific notation. The drill sheets offer space for reflection, and opportunity for the appropriate use of technology. Also contained are assessment and standards rubrics, review sheets, color activity posters and bonus worksheets. All of our content meets the Common Core State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy, STEM, and NCTM standards.

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Rapunzel, Rapunzel! is a spin-off from the traditional fairytale. Before reading the Big Book version, students should be familiar with the traditional tale. For Kindergarten, you may want to tell the story orally, simplifying the storyline. Proceed with Rapunzel, Rapunzel! Students will use rhythm and rhyme in oral and written activities, will attempt and practice reading behaviours, will recognize the point of view of the story, will associate words and letters with sounds in a meaningful context, will recognize exclamation marks for placing emphasis, and understand purpose of the dialogue balloon and quotation marks. Strategies include reading to students, repeating repetitive patterns, and brainstorming. This Big Books lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, big book, and little book assembly to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

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Stories for Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day and Spring combined with patterns and illustrations make up two big books and two felt boards. In our resource, you will find two big books: "Just For You" and "How to Make a Valentine Card". Also in our resource, you will find two felt or magnetic board stories: "I Can Climb a Rainbow" and "A Dewy Green Leaf". Each story has extended story activities. Reduce and photocopy little books for each child to read along with the story. Ask the children to illustrate their own little books of "A Dewy Green Leaf" and "I Can Climb a Rainbow". This Holidays lesson provides a teacher and student section with activities, stories, cut and paste to create a well-rounded lesson plan.