A teacher guide for the 4-week digital diary unit, featuring a 25-page roadmap for a comprehensive digital portfolio including narrative, expository, and persuasive writing. Updated with clarified page numbering and term naming.
A professional single-page reading fluency worksheet featuring a passage about auctions with cumulative word counts. It includes a unified weekly progress table for recording WPM and partner retell tallies for Tuesday through Friday.
An updated professional single-page reading fluency worksheet featuring a passage about an egg farm with cumulative word counts. It now features a unified weekly tracker table that allows students to record both their WPM and retell tallies for each day (Tuesday-Friday).
A landscape-style grid organizer for students to brainstorm and refine research questions across multiple subjects. Optimized to fit the standard 720x960 portrait document viewport while maintaining a wide-column grid layout.
A single-page portrait graphic organizer designed for 9th-grade students to scaffold the process of developing a strong research question focusing on modern figures and social change. Optimized for 8.5x11 portrait printing.
A teacher answer key providing solutions for the Link Logic Worksheet, Blueprint Breakout practice, and Mastery Check assessment, including instructional logic for RI.8.3.
A final mastery check for RI.8.3, including multiple-choice and short-answer questions that require students to identify distinctions, analyze analogies, and construct causal connections.
An EOG-style practice material with a passage about the Silk Road, focusing on identifying cause/effect relationships and distinctions between historical and modern networks.
A multi-purpose graphic organizer template for mapping connections (cause/effect) and distinctions (compare/contrast) in any informational text.
A guided practice worksheet that requires students to map out cause-and-effect chains and comparison distinctions based on the "Breathless" reading passage.
A reading passage titled "Breathless" that compares the 1952 Great Smog of London to modern solar energy solutions, specifically designed for RI.8.3 analysis of connections and distinctions.
Direct instruction slides for teaching RI.8.3, focusing on cause/effect and comparison/contrast with a "Logic Links" theme. Includes visual breakdowns of the standard and a instructional strategy.
A two-page comprehensive study guide covering the Unit 5 mechanics. Includes phonogram rules for AI and AY, broad vowel marking, spelling rules 3, 9, 10, and 21, Latin morpheme meanings, compound words, and irregular plurals. Features a professional blueprint lab theme. Revised for perfect single-page printing per page.
A teacher-facing answer key and instructional guide for the Meaning Mariners lesson, featuring explicit theme statements for each task card.
A student recording sheet for the task cards, with designated areas for writing central ideas and theme statements for each passage.
A set of 8 task cards featuring short fictional passages for students to identify the central idea and theme statement, now including cutting guides and a bonus task.