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Every picture really does tell a story. Start the day by reading select passages from Children of the Orphan Train and discussing your listeners' initial feelings. Then, pair a KWL with a YouTube video (attached here). Then, using these...

Try out this reading passage when teaching your class about the 1920s and 1930s. After reading the text, which provides an overview of some major events in these years, learners respond to five related questions.

What is an oral history interview? What goes into the planning and what should be said? Why is it important that we know and learn from oral history? This is an excellent worksheet to support your young historians as they conduct...

For this United Kingdom or Great Britain worksheet, students read a passage, look at maps, and answer multiple choice questions. Students answer 8 questions.

In this Great Lakes geography worksheet, young scholars identify Lakes Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario on a map. Students also practice writing the lakes names in cursive and respond to 2 short answer questions.

Assess what your young readers have learned about close reading by asking them to read an article and answer questions using evidence drawn from the provided text. Although part of a complete unit focused on the Iroquois, the assessment...

With The Great Kapok Tree, by Lynne Cherry as the hook learners discuss the rainforest, the animals that live there, and conservation efforts. Then, young scholars write a letter to the man in the story asking him not to cut down the...

Reading comprehension questions for the 13th Magic Tree House book, Vacation Under the Volcano, are divided by chapter. Each chapter warrants three to five questions. They cover basic comprehension, vocabulary, and some inference.

Students recognize how the causes of the Great Depression affected people and their jobs. In this Great Depression lesson plan, students understand that most of the time news only came from newspapers. Students write a letter as though...

Young scholars explore world history by examining images in a slide-show. In this Egypt history instructional activity, students view a PowerPoint presentation which includes photographs and illustrations of the Great Pyramids. Young...