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Editable, Gamified & Differentiated ELA & Social Studies Teaching Tools for Grades 4-12

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Grades 4+

Writing Workshop Teaching Tools & Mentor Sentence Studies

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Scaffolded, standards-aligned craft intensives that target key narrative elements, storytelling approaches, and sentence-smoothing techniques to power clear & compelling writing in any genre or text-based medium.

Grades 4-8

Book Club, Literature Circle, Novel & Film Study Resources

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Featuring a wide range of middle-grade novels, graphic novels, poetry collections, and films –– from modern classics like The Invention of Hugo Cabret to classic-classics like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, from historical fiction like Journey to Topaz to science fiction like The Last Cuentista.

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Grades 8+

Media Analysis &

Reflection Kits

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Promote a layered and nuanced look at how we got to now with editable social studies, US history, natural history & film history teaching tools that align with educational videos or podcast episodes from media outlets like Crash Course, PBS, Smithsonian, Ted-Ed & Wondery.

Writing Workshop Teaching Tools & Mentor Sentence Studies

Build descriptive writing skills and boost engagement with videos, Kahoot & Quizizz games, customizable slide shows, graphic organizers, anchor charts, word banks, prompts & sentence starters.

Whether your students are writing fiction, poetry, personal narratives, essays, or scripts, you'll find writing workshop hyperdocs & printables to introduce "big picture" narrative concepts like conflict mapping, character sketching, and world-building. Or get granular with resources for teaching approaches to writing show-don't-tell dialogue, figurative language & imagery with mentor sentences from the same popular middle-grade titles featured in our book club & novel study resources.

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WatsonsBrown GirlHair Love Mentor Sentence Study Character Building with Habits & Rituals.

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Book Club, Literature Circle, Novel & Film Study Resources

Promote critical thinking with editable discussion questions, gamify analysis and comprehension checks on Quizizz, and build vocabulary with class games on Kahoot. "STEM-ify" your novel study with side trips through scientific concepts that surface in featured works, or take your class on history "side trips" that contextualize works set in the past and explore how pivotal historical moments resonate today.

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The Last Cuentista Novel/STEM Study Bundle

When Stars Are Scattered Book Club & Mentor Sentence BUNDLE

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Media Analysis & Reflection Kits

Also available as class games on Quizizz, each kit features questions to check comprehension, prompts and primary source links to generate analysis, sample responses, and an answer key.

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Crash Course US History Side Trip Salem Witch Trials

Crash Course US History the Black Legend

Crash Course US History Side Trip: Chief Tecumseh

Crash Course US History Mystery D Deep-dive Matthew Brady & Civil War Photography

Crash Course US History Women's Suffrage

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