A comprehensive teacher's guide for 'The Soundtrack of Conflict' lesson, featuring learning objectives, detailed pacing, and differentiation strategies for middle school ELA.
Teacher-facing facilitation guide for the Headline Hackers lesson, including learning objectives, a detailed procedure, and differentiation strategies.
Teacher-facing answer key and exemplar for the Truth Tweak worksheet, featuring categorized bias examples and neutral rewrites of the mock article.
A mock news article editing task where students identify loaded language, sensationalism, and framing in a biased article about a school policy. Features a multi-phase "Truth Tweak" activity to practice neutral reporting.
A student-facing reference tool featuring essential questions for identifying three types of media bias. Designed with an investigative "field guide" aesthetic for easy classroom use.
Visual presentation introducing the three core media bias techniques: placement/framing, sensationalism, and omission/selection. Features bold investigative aesthetics and comparative examples for students.
Worksheets for Sorts 39 and 40, covering Greek and Latin roots related to elements (terr, astr, hydro) and life/death (gen, mort, bio). Features randomized fill-in-the-blank exercises. Now with randomized sentence order.
Worksheets for Sorts 40, 41, and 42, covering Greek and Latin roots related to life, origins, joining, breathing, and the law. Features randomized fill-in-the-blank exercises.
Worksheets for Sorts 37, 38, and 39, covering Greek and Latin roots related to quantity (magni, min, poly), the body (cap, corp, dent, ped), and the elements (terr, astr, hydra). Randomized exercises.
Worksheets for Sorts 37, 38, and 39, focusing on quantity, body, and element roots from Greek and Latin. Features randomized fill-in-the-blank exercises and root explanations.
Worksheets for Sorts 40, 41, and 42, focusing on Latin roots related to life, birth, connections, and the law. Features randomized fill-in-the-blank exercises and root explanations.
Worksheets for Sorts 37, 38, and 39, focusing on Greek and Latin roots for amounts, body parts, and elements. Features randomized sentence order and root definitions.
Teacher answer key and scoring rubric for the Word Blueprint vocabulary worksheet.
A revised vocabulary worksheet for 6th-grade students with words: valid, critical, manual, coherent, and omit. The layout has been optimized for clean page breaks and improved alignment/contrast in the student work areas.
A quick formative assessment exit ticket for the lesson. Students define the most important trait of being extraordinary and provide a brief rationale. Duplicate design for efficient printing.
Student worksheet for the mentor text 'What Makes Someone Extraordinary'. Includes vocabulary practice, an evidence-hunting graphic organizer, and a personal reflection prompt.
Engaging presentation slides for the 'What Makes Someone Extraordinary' mentor text. Includes vocabulary definitions, big idea questions, and analysis prompts.
Teacher guide for the 6th grade mentor text 'What Makes Someone Extraordinary'. Includes lesson objectives, instructional steps, differentiation strategies, and a worksheet answer key.
Worksheets for Sorts 34, 35, and 36, focusing on Latin roots related to hands, writing, belief, direction, and flow. Features randomized fill-in-the-blank exercises.
Worksheets for Sorts 31, 32, and 33, focusing on Latin roots related to speech (dic), hearing (aud), sight (vis), movement (gress, mot), and pulling/breaking (tract, rupt). Randomized exercises.
Worksheets for Sorts 29 and 30, focusing on Greek roots (geo, therm, scope, etc.) and Latin roots (spect, port, form). Features randomized fill-in-the-blank exercises and root explanations.
Worksheets for Sorts 27 and 28, focusing on size prefixes (micro-, mega-, etc.) and Greek roots related to communication and light (tele, phon, etc.). Randomized exercises.
Worksheets for Sorts 25 and 26, focusing on Greek and Latin number prefixes including mono-, uni-, bi-, tri-, and more. Includes root definitions and randomized sentence exercises.
Worksheets for Sorts 23 and 24, focusing on vowel alternations with -ion and complex multiple sound shifts. Includes root definitions and sentence exercises. Now with randomized sentence order.
Worksheets for Sorts 21 and 22, focusing on vowel alternations where sounds shift between schwa, short, and long sounds. Includes root definitions and randomized sentence exercises.
Worksheets for Sorts 19 and 20, focusing on vowel alternations where sounds shift from long to short or schwa. Includes root definitions and randomized sentence exercises.
Worksheets for Sorts 17 and 18, focusing on state/condition suffixes (-ation, -cation, -ition) and consonant alternations. Includes root definitions and sentence exercises. Now with randomized sentence order.