English language arts
Career Spotlight: Wildlife Rehabilitator (Summarizing)
Students read an original career article, take notes paragraph by paragraph, and practice writing a short summary.
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Arts
Five Art Movements at a Glance: Reading and Fact-Finder
Students read a short overview of Renaissance, Impressionism, Cubism, Pop Art and street art, then fill in a fact table and answer questions.
Social studies
From Idea to Law: How a Bill Becomes a Law
Students learn the main steps of how a federal bill becomes law, then order the steps and solve short scenarios.
Study skills & advisory
Honey Bees at Work: Read, Check and Write in Chunks
Students learn four key words, read a short article in three chunks with a check after each, fill in a main-idea organizer, and write using sentence frames.
English language arts
How Bats Find Their Way in the Dark: Main Idea and Cause and Effect
Students read an original science article about echolocation and answer questions on main idea, evidence and cause and effect.
English language arts
How the Writer Built It: Text Structure in a Passage About Honeybees
Students read an original informational passage about honeybee communication and identify the structure and purpose of each paragraph.
Study skills & advisory
Outlining Practice: The Rush Hour Puzzle
Students read an original passage about traffic, complete a Roman-numeral outline, and then write an outline of their own from a short paragraph.
English language arts
PEEL It Apart: Writing an Analytical Paragraph
Students read a short original story passage, learn the PEEL paragraph structure, and build an analytical paragraph about a character.
Social studies
Psychology Then and Now: Perspectives and Branches
Students match the major schools of psychology to their key ideas, then sort real-world research scenarios into the branches of psychology.