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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: Hattie Big Sky is a Newbery Honor winning story about a young orphan who inherits a homestead claim in the Montana prairies. Hattie, at the age of 16, goes off to live at her uncles homestead in Montana in 1918. Alone, Hattie is met with the hardships that come with the primitive conditions. Throughout all of her trials and small triumphs, Hattie keeps up a correspondence with her school friend, Charlie, who enlisted in the army to fight in The Great War. It is through his eyes that Hattie is able to see glimpses of the harsh cruelty of warfare. As the story unfolds, Hattie is met with experiences that leave her discouraged and bewildered, but stronger and more resolutely determined to make something of herself. All of our content meets the Common Core State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

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Our Combined resource includes all necessary areas of Space for grades five to eight. Get the big picture about the Solar System, Galaxies and the Universe as your students become fascinated by the interesting information about the Sun, Earth, Moon, Comets, Asteroids Meteoroids, Stars and Constellations. Also, thrill your young astronomers as they connect Earth and space cycles with their daily life. Using simplified language and vocabulary concepts such as Cycle of Day & Nighttime, Cycles of Seasons & Years, Moon Phases, Ocean Tides, Gravity Solar and Lunar Eclipses are discovered. Create a Vision of Tomorrow with your students today as they imagine being part of the crew of a shuttle mission to the International Space Station. Reading passages, student activities and color mini posters included. All of our content meets the Common Core State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy and STEM initiatives.

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Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (Roald Dahl)

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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: Who would believe that Charlie Buckets life would take such an unusual twist? Charlie and his family are very poor and food is never in abundance. The world is on a frenzy trying to find one of the five Golden Tickets. By getting one of these tickets, the winner will visit the insides of the mysterious Mr. Wonkas Chocolate Factory. Charlie finds a dollar bill and buys himself a chocolate bar that contains the last Golden Ticket. Along with four other children, they visit the factory and meet up with the Oompa-Loompas who are the hard workers of the factory. At last, Mr. Wonka tells Charlie that he has won the whole factory and the brave and true Charlie and his family will never starve again. All of our content meets the Common Core State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

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Welcome to the world of dinosaurs! Here you will find work-jobs and activities to make your Dinosaur Learning Center more complete. The work-jobs included can be photocopied or duplicated directly onto construction paper or manila tag. Instructions are included for each and are easy to follow. Some of the topics included are: Meat Eaters, Plant Eaters, Two Legs, Four Legs, I am a Dinosaur, Dinosaur Country, Fossil Match, Dinosaur Bone Hunt, Dinosaur Songs, Mega Puzzles, and Activity Cards. The center book pages are for creative development. Each child can create a booklet of his or her dinosaur studies. This Animal Science lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities, word search, and board game to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

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For grades PK-2, our resource meets the five strands of math concepts addressed by the NCTM standards and encourages the students to review the concepts in unique ways. Included are warm-up and timed drill activities which will push the boundaries of critical thought and demonstrate to students the importance of mathematical problems in Number & Operations, Geometry, Measurement, Data Analysis & Probability and Algebra using real world situations. 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. 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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Add some fun to your favorite big book story. In There Was An Old Lady, students will learn rhythm and rhyme in oral activities, while practising reading and learning to recognize point of view in the story. Contents include Big Book, Little Book, flannelboard and storytelling instructions, flannelboard patterns, storytelling prop, and activities. This Big Books lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, big book, little book, flannelboard, and activities to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

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These "Teddy Bears" are guaranteed to keep student interest at its highest in this science and language arts unit of study. Major topics are: What Do Koalas Look Like?, Where Do Koalas Live?, What Do Koalas Eat?, Food, How Do Koalas Move?, Do Koalas Hibernate?, Koala Cubs, and Enemies. Each lesson includes a spelling activity, a brainstorming activity, a study of new words, work in the student booklet, a writing activity, work at the learning center and a parent page. Includes group word cards, individual word cards, learning center checklist and activities, spelling words, unit quiz and evaluation. This Animal 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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Five Little Halloween Cats is a big book with hands-on activities as well as flannel board patterns for story recall. Our unit combines art, language arts, and math skills with this holiday lesson. Easy to assemble, our resource includes big book and little book patterns, colour and sequencing activities, art and language arts activities, cat mask creation, and Halloween Dress-Up game. The "Colour Cats" activity uses visual discrimination to create a matching activity. The "Sequencing" activity uses cats to sequence the days of the week, numbers, or the alphabet. Use the provided cat silhouettes to make stencils for spatter painting. This Holidays lesson provides a teacher and student section with big book, little book, hands-on activities, culminating activities, and bookmaking to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

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Students will learn how they can improve the planet by identifying their carbon footprint. In our resource, students will learn about how they can help slow the rate at which our planet is changing by becoming a part of the worldwide effort to reduce the planets carbon footprint. Students will learn about their own, their schools, and finally their communitys carbon footprint, by determining the causes of climate change through carbon dioxide that is released by human activities. Students will then be able to calculate the extent to which changes in their lifestyles can reduce their footprint. They can then extend this base of understanding to similar changes in their school and their community. Complete with a carbon footprint calculator that will allow students to pinpoint where they release the most carbon dioxide and how they can reduce it. All of our content meets the Common Core State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

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What a great way to motivate emerging readers and writers  especially boys. Students will rise to the challenge with these exciting lesson topics: Hockey, Baseball, Golf, Soccer, Volleyball, Swimming, Gymnastics, Lacrosse, and Running. Lessons are specifically designed for emerging readers and writers, with a teacher-friendly format focusing on building children's sight word vocabulary and introducing them to writing in complete (but simple) sentences. Activities include group and individual word cards, spelling lists, match game and evaluation. This Sports unit provides a teacher and student section with a variety of lessons, activities, unit test and evaluation to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

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Advocates and sceptics of Global Warming will both benefit from this valuable resource as we look at creative ways to reduce human consumption and output, all in an effort to help clean up our planet and reduce operating costs. We explore alternative fuel solutions and non-conventional sources of power, new transportation methods and eco-friendly urban planning. Also discussed are solutions for increasing energy efficiencies, renewable energy, green buildings and examples of countries efforts to reduce carbon output. All concepts and vocabulary are presented in a way that makes the information accessible to students and easier to understand. We have loaded this resource with reading passages, student activities, color color mini posters, crossword, word search and a comprehension quiz. All of our content meets the Common Core State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

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Students explore the exciting and intriguing world of electricity. Divided into two main sections, the first section is everything you wanted to know about electricity but were afraid to ask. This knowledge-based presentation of information includes student notes suitable for hand-outs or on a projection system. Ten exciting activities and assignments accompany these notes. The second section is a class project entitled Sunshine City Needs Electricity. This role-play activity, in which students pose as concerned citizens, and discuss what kind of electrical generating station to build for the make-believe community. This Physical Science 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: A classic coming of age story of fourteen year old, Sara, who lives in a small town in West Virginia. This Newbery Medal winner story centers on Sara and her troubled relationship with her remote father, her perfect older sister, and Joe Melby, a boy from school. All of these problems are quickly placed on the backburner when Charlie, her mentally disabled brother, wanders out of the house in the middle of the night and goes missing. While resolving this serious crisis, Sara discovers a great deal of herself, and when she and Joe find Charlie safe and sound, she comes to grips with the knowledge that she is comfortable with who she is and who she is becoming. All of our content meets the Common Core State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

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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: Your students will enjoy this wonderful story of loss and longing, of loneliness and friendships and a story of finding contentment and a place for oneself. This is a story in which a ten-year-old girl must face the abandonment of her mother, and find the answer to the question Will she ever come back? The answer, surprisingly, is No!, but India Opal Buloni, over the course of the novel, learns to deal with this answer through her experiences and support of a growing circle of friends, all of whom have also suffered some kind of loss themselves. And finally, it is the story of the love between a girl and her dog, a pet that has an uncanny ability to bring kindred spirits together. All of our content meets the Common Core State Standards and are written to Bloom's Taxonomy.

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Transportation: Planes, Trains & Automobiles

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Planes, Trains & Automobiles! Get going with this 2 week Social Studies/Language Arts unit all about getting around. The unit presents Scooters, Wagons, Bicycles, Automobiles, Trains, Busses, Boats, Roller Blades, Airplanes, and Pogo Sticks with a series of high-interest, low-vocabulary informational paragraphs. Students complete various activities on each topic as they build their sight word vocabulary and learn to write in complete (but simple) sentences. Activities include group and individual word cards, spelling lists, match game and evaluation. This Social 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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What could be a better supplement to your theme of whales that this package. Everything from whale communication to whale food and whale characteristics is covered with simple to use activities. Whales contains activities to supplement a theme of whale research and to help provide visuals and learning activities for students. As students explore the world of whales, use the following topics for discovery as a guide: whale extinction, Inuit and whales, geographical locations of whales in Canada, whale communication, whale families and social groups, whale hunting, whale watching, food, mammal-like characteristics, and current events. This Animal Science lesson provides a teacher and student section with reading passages, activities, word search, big book, and bookmaking to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

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Discover the workings of old school Hi-Fidelity stereo equipment such as Turntables, Cassette Players, and Compact Discs. Students also look at the workings of AM and FM radio. Innovative assignments stress creative and critical thinking with many possibilities for drama in this unit. The major project concludes the unit with students acting as radio D.J.s and write a fifteen-minute script on news, weather, sports, songs or commercials. Students will also be able to design a personal custom sound system along with designing a custom electric guitar. This fun Music lesson provides a teacher and student section with a variety of reading passages, activities, crossword, word search, exam and answer key to create a well-rounded lesson plan.

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Let your young readers share their thoughts about the literacy that they have heard or read themselves. Our valuable and easy-to-use resource provides a wide variety of skill-based worksheets and purposeful hands-on activities that are all based on the six levels of Blooms Taxonomy. Use to supplement your present reading program or as independent student work. Our worksheet activities will help to engage and build the full range of thinking skills essential for reading comprehension and focus on many other skills including: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. Also included is a teacher implementation guide, student assessment rubrics, word puzzles, color graphic organizers and a comprehension quiz. 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 measurement concepts addressed by the NCTM standards and encourages the students to learn and review the concepts in unique ways. We provide students the opportunity to learn, review, and master essential measurement skills by encouraging them to use, compare, analyze, and assess different units of measurement. Students will reinforce and develop their knowledge of measurement tools including: length, volume, time, money, weight and area. Students will be asked to use standard as well as metric units of measure as they practice these measurement skills. 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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Students tackle the mysteries and wonders of weather in this Earth Science unit. The unit starts off with a "Weather Tracking Chart", which involves students measuring and tracking the weather on a daily basis. The core lessons provide basic weather topics such as temperature, wind, pressure, clouds and precipitation. Exciting activities integrated with student notes provide students with solid background information. The "Enrichment Lessons" focuses on the more dramatic  examining tornadoes, hurricanes, thunderstorms and the greenhouse effect, again using student notes and activities. This Earth Science 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.