Curated OER
Turn Your Empty Classroom into a Tutoring Hall
Invite students to receive additional instruction, one-on-one mentoring, and specialized study time in a drop-in study hall.
Curated OER
Esperanza Rising - Literature Circles and Review (Day 3)
Kids love working with their peers. Get your class into small literature circles and have them complete weekly assignments. Before beginning this week's activity, have each learner write a letter from Esperanza in California to Abuelita...
Teach Engineering
Biomimicry and Sustainable Design - Nature is an Engineering Marvel
Discover how copying nature can be beneficial to humans. Scholars read articles about examples of biomimicry and its potential applications. Along the way, they learn about Nature's Nine Laws and how they relate to biomimicry. This is...
Roald Dahl
Matilda - The Weekly Test
Readers take the main characters in Matilda and individually describe them through a mnemonic. To get there, group members create an acrostic poem describing the character they were given, and choose one of the words from the...
New York State Education Department
Global History and Geography Examination: August 2015
Need a comprehensive test about global history and geography? Look no further! Test young historians' understanding of how to use primary sources to formulate answers with an assessment that uses multiple-choice questions that...
Channel Islands Film
Magic Isle: Lesson Plan 3
Middle schoolers complete a writing assessment task to demonstrate their ability to craft a narrative based on a variety of informational texts. They view West of the West's documentary Magic Isle, read three print resources about...
National Endowment for the Humanities
The New Order for "Greater East Asia"
Sometimes the New Order becomes synonymous with its implications for European countries, but what about its consequences for East Asia? The final instructional activity in a four-part series teaches scholars about World War II. High...
Open Oregon Educational Resources
A Different Road To College: A Guide For Transitioning To College For Non-traditional Students
Registration. Prerequisite. Admission. Elective. With Alise Lamoreaux's informative eBook, A Different Road to College, prospective and current non-traditional college enrollees explore the language of college. They also learn...
Grammar Net
Past Simple v. Past Perfect Simple
Help English learners tell the difference between the past tense and the past perfect tense with a grammar worksheet. As kids read twelve sentences, they change the given verbs to the correct tense based on context clues.
Reading Through History
Anti-Federalist Paper No. 47
The path to a more perfect union was rockier than most history books would lead you to believe. Young historians read “Antifederalist No. 47,” written by James Madison (under the pen name “Centinel”), which sharply criticizes the...
Poetry4kids
Rhythm in Poetry: You Can Scan, Man
A detailed lesson written for budding poets challenges them to scan poems to discover stressed and unstressed syllables. Dashes and slashes highlight the syllables to count the feet, which makes the rhythm of the poem. Questions test...
C.S. Lewis Foundation
Educator’s Guide to The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe #2
This chapter-by-chapter guide to The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, designed to be used in either a classroom or homeschool setting, contains vocabulary lists, discussion questions, and writing prompts.
Curated OER
O'Connor's Short Stories by Flannery O'Connor
After reading Flannery O'Connor's short stories, provide your high schoolers with these questions. You could use these to prompt higher level thinking for an upcoming test, or provide them as essay prompts.
EngageNY
Mid-Unit Assessment: On-Demand Note-taking and Text-Dependent Questions
Flex those brain muscles! Scholars take a mid-unit assessment, conducting research to take notes about how a particular invention helped meet society's needs. To complete the test, they work on draft sketches for their graphic...
K20 LEARN
It Wasn't Me: "The Crucible"
Scholars complete their study of the collective fear in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" by conducting a mock trial to determine how many witches are in the class. Groups then analyze sections of the play for the literary devices used and...
American Statistical Association
A Tale of One City and Two Lead Measurements
Lead the way in learning about lead contamination. Pupils first read several articles about the Flint water crisis and the EPA's rules for lead concentration. They use provided data from 71 Flint water wells to compute the 90th...
Curated OER
Test Your Reading Skills-- The Novels of Charles Dickens
For this reading worksheet, students analyze 15 titles of Charles Dickens' novels that are slightly mixed up and incorrect. Students fix the titles and write them correctly on the lines.
Curated OER
Test Your Reading Skills-- Homophones 5
For this language arts worksheet, students investigate homophones, or words that sound the same but are spelled differently. Students read each word and write a homophone in the blank next to it.
Curated OER
Test Your Reading Skills-- Homophones 4
In this language arts worksheet, students learn that homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings. Students read 15 words and write the homophone for each.
Curated OER
Test Your Reading Skills
In this reading learning exercise, students write out the full name of units of weight and measurement. Twelve different measurements and weights are listed with the abbreviation for each unit.
Curated OER
My Test Book: Standard Form and Reading Tables
In this math skills activity, students solve 10 multiple choice math problems that require them to write numbers in standard form and read tables. Students may view the correct answers.
Curated OER
Test Your Reading Skills: Reading Job Advertisements 3
In this reading job advertisements worksheet, 10th graders fill in 10 blanks for missing words in 10 job advertisements. A word bank is provided for students to choose answers from.
Curated OER
Test Your Reading Skills: Cloze Activity
In this reading comprehension cloze instructional activity, students are instructed to fill in blanks with any word or phrase that "fits." The paragraph is about a shopping trip. Possible answers are given.
Curated OER
Reading Job Advertisements
In this ESL reading job advertisements worksheet, students read extracts from job advertisements and fill in the blanks using given words. Students then match each extract to a sentence.