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Recent Blog Posts

Teaching Grammar with Animated Shorts

Make grammar lessons engaging by incorporating animated shorts! Grammar is often one of the least anticipated lessons for students, but …

Winter Poems including Figurative Language

Are you looking for a new twist on teaching poetic elements? Check out these seven activities that use winter figurative …

Teaching Capitalization and Punctuation with Animated Shorts

Let’s face it. Some lessons are just more fun for teachers as well as students than others. Students would rather …

Teaching Compare and Contrast with Christmas Books

If you are looking for some Christmas stories to teach your students how to compare and contrast, check out The Year …

Christmas Compare and Contrast Writing Prompts

Are you looking for some new activities to add to your lesson plans? Inspire your students this holiday season with …

Recent Novel Study Posts

A Wrinkle in Time

From anchor charts paired with constructed response questions to compare the novel to the movie, this post provides many A Wrinkle …

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Your novel study will go from ordinary to extraordinary with these Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Teaching Ideas… Charlie Bucket comes from …

Holes

Are you looking for some teaching ideas for Holes by Louis Sachar? You’ll find printable character trait booklets, recipes, and much more …

Wonder

I first read the book Wonder while on vacation at the beach. I just couldn’t put the book down, so I ended up …

Surviving in the Wilderness

In Gary Paulsen’s novel Hatchet, Brian doesn’t exactly sign up for a wilderness vacation. One plane crash later, he finds …

Jessica speaks about…


Teaching with Animated Short Films All in One Reading & Writing MEGA Bundle


This has changed the way I present content. Students are engaged and willing to tackle tough skills as struggling readers with this product. I really appreciate the writing portion along with the other student friendly content worksheets.


Jessica N.

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Hatchet Novel Study: Digital + Printable Book Unit: activities & quizzes

Absolutely amazing! I teach an adult ESOL class and this study guide is exactly what I needed! The vocabulary was excellent pre-teaching material and the questions were perfect. I had to do nothing! I enjoyed this Hatchet study guide so much that I purchased several other study guides from Gay Miller. Because I like her material so much, she’s my first choice for go-to material! THANK YOU!!!!
 
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Interactive Grammar Organizers

This resource is fantastic. I really enjoyed using it because it allowed my students to practice skills with fun and engaging content. I enjoy the ease and appreciate how much thought was put into creating it.
 
Dan B.
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