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Casey at the Bat and Dorlan’s Home Walk Doubleheader Poetry Study Guide
$10.00Add to cart“Casey at the Bat” and “Dorlan’s Home Walk” are the featured verses in this Double Header Poetry Study Guide.
No prep resources include copies of the poems (both in public domain), study questions, sequencing, vocabulary resources, author biographies, informational texts, research and writing prompts, compare and contrast activities, a bonus poem, and full answer keys. All student activities are CCSS aligned.
48 total pages of script including answer pages.
Student approval guaranteed.
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Pigs Is Pigs Short Story Study Guide
$12.00Add to cartPigs Is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler
A Short Story Study Guide by Margaret WhisnantTreat your students to this rib-tickling story about a stubborn station master, an equally stubborn customer, and two guinea pigs with opportunity to be themselves. The results are a hilarious venture into the law of increasing numbers.
Pigs Is Pigs is a personal favorite. I used it as a fun read-aloud in my classroom for years. I was delighted to learn that the story was older than I thought and in public domain. It made its debut in the September 1905 edition of American Illustrated Magazine. Star Trek fans will be interested to know that this short story inspired the episode titled “The Trouble with Tribbles.”
File Contents Include:
A Copy of the Story, now in Public Domain
Two Story Quizzes, Factual and Standards-based
Two Story-based Activities
A Vocabulary Study
Author Biography
Two Informational Texts
Thinking and Writing Prompts
Full Answer Keys
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Schooled: Short Answer Questions
$8.00Add to cartSchooled: Short Answer Questions is a 22-page teaching resource is a series of chapter-by-chapter short answer question sets, ten items per set, that require detailed, factual responses. The pages are formatted as handouts with space provided for student responses.
Full answer keys are included.
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Informational Text Pack for January: Drinking Straw Day
$6.50Add to cartThis Informational Text Pack celebrates Drinking Straw Day. Yes! No kidding!
Though not an official, Congressionally sanctioned, national celebration, January 3 is set aside as Drinking Straw Day—a time to acknowledge the importance of this little necessity. It also commemorates Marvin Stone’s patent for the world’s first paper drinking straw, which was granted by the U. S. Patent Office on January 3, 1888.
Get your students in the Drinking-Straw celebration mode with the three articles in this file:
(1) “Drinking Straw Day” chronicles the rather surprising history of the drinking straw with a focus on the two inventions that brought it to its modern form. This article has 15 CCSS Aligned questions.(2) “Addendum 1: Patent No. 375,962” presents the original diagram drawing and specifications included in Marvin Stone’s paper straw patent from 1888. The 10 companion CCSS aligned questions require students to study both the diagram and the specifications. Several questions refer to information in “Drinking Straw Day.”
(3) “Patent No. 2,094,286” includes the original diagram drawing and specifications from Joseph Friedman’s flexible straw patent in 1937. The 10 CCSS aligned questions for this document refer to the diagram, the specifications, and information from the other two documents.
A set of “Drinking Straw Facts” and another group of “Facts about Patents” are included as a little something extra that teachers and students can use as they see fit.18 pages of script. 20 total pages including cover and Credits.
Full Answer Keys are included. (Specific CCSS are listed here, and not in the questions themselves)
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Informational Text Pack for February: Hearts and Ferris Wheels
$6.50Add to cartTreat your students to a new view of February 14th with “Hearts and Ferris Wheels.”
This Informational Text’s first article, “Getting to the Heart of the Matter,” starts in ancient Egypt for the beginnings of the mix-ups and misconceptions about the human heart that were finally unscrambled less than 500 years ago. Still, they keep hanging around in our language as idioms, which we dust off and wear out each Valentine’s day—bless our hearts!
Bet you didn’t know that February 14th is also Ferris Wheel Day! “The Engineer with Wheels in His Head” tells the story of the world’s first Ferris Wheel, built by George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. (born on February 14th) for the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 (aka The Chicago’s World Fair.)
Each text is accompanied by 15 CCSS aligned questions. Full answer keys are included. CCSS alignments are listed in the answer keys, not the questions.
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Informational Text Pack for March: Umbrellas and Barbie
$6.50Add to cartIn honor of March’s U.S. designation as National Umbrella Month, the first portion of this text pack is about this very necessary item.
Barbie, the first teen fashion doll, made her debut on March 9, 1959, at the New York Toy Fair. Since then, she has reigned at the world’s most popular doll. To commemorate her 50+ years of extreme fame, controversy, and legal entanglements, the second article tells the story of Barbie Millicent Roberts.
Each article is three pages of script with 15 CCSS aligned questions. The target skills are listed in the answer keys, and not with the questions.
This file is 17 total pages, including 12 pages of script, 2 pages of answer keys, a table of content, a cover page, and an e-bibliography with clipart art credits.
Full answer keys are included.
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Informational Texts Pack: Feet and Shoes
$6.50Add to cartFeet and shoes are the topics of this Informational Texts Pack. Titles of the four original articles are
Arguments for Feet Appreciation
Where Did You Get Those Shoes?
Extraordinary Feet
Speaking of Feet. . .The goal of this teaching resource is to inform and to entertain—lots of humor to keep students interested, especially “Speaking of Feet. . .” For the teacher, there are 10 CCSS aligned questions in a variety of formats for each of the four articles.
The Teacher’s Resources section offers one or more complete writing prompts for all four texts, links to internet sites and YouTube videos for more in-depth study, research topics, and the e-bibliography used in writing the articles.
Full answer keys with specific CCSS alignments are included. Twenty-five total pages.
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