FREE LANGUAGE ARTS LESSON - “FREE The Giver Non-Fiction Reading Activity”

by Secondary Sara
6th - 9th Grade

Need to add non-fiction into a unit on The Giver? Want to pull in cross-curricular non-fiction to show utopias (or are they dystopias?) in our modern world?

Use this FREE 2-day lesson connecting literature and modern articles to assess CCSS RI.1 and RI.2 in your ELA classroom. Themed around the question “Are Utopias Really Possible?”, the articles and corresponding questions ask students to think critically about human attempts at social perfection and what causes a utopia to fail. Ask students to read all three articles OR assign students to articles (jigsaw-style) to differentiate your instruction.

This 6-page lesson includes:
• Brief Teacher's Guide
• Clearly marked standards, context, and directions
• Hyperlinks to 5 current, credible articles on past and present utopian communities in America
• Summary prompt AND 1 text-dependent question PER article
• 6 short answer questions that ask students to identify patterns across the failed utopias, synthesize, and make connections to the novel
• Answer key
• Optional follow-up research assignment

NOTE: The EDITABLE version of this activity can be found in my full The Giver Novel Unit.

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FREE MISC. LESSON - “How Many Bees search and count book (Bible version) freebie”

by Kathleen Applebee
Kindergarten - 2nd Grade

How many bees? These 2-41-and-42-page PDF books provide reading and math practice while sharpening attention skills. Readers hunt for bees among the flowers, practice repetitive reading, make predictions.

The repetitive text can help students build reading skills by simplifying the decoding process which leads to improving speed, increasing confidence and making reading more enjoyable by allowing students to hear the text without stopping. This Bible version is appropriate for grades K-1. A secular version is available here.

Additional resources include links to informational reading about bees, color by number addition and subtraction problems and bee videos.

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FREE MATH LESSON - “Elementary Geometry: Identifying Right, Obtuse and Acute Angles”

by The Teacher Treasury
3rd - 5th Grade

2 pages.

Lesson asks students to identify Acute, Obtuse and Right angles.

Lesson was successful with my 4th grade students.

This can either be used as a morning warm-up, math warm-up, homework, in-class practice or quiz.

If you like these worksheets, I also recommend the following:

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Hope this helps =)

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FREE MATH LESSON - “Kindergarten 1st Grade Math Worksheets with Math Boom Cards”

by Teacher Tam
Kindergarten - 1st Grade

This set of kindergarten 1st grade math worksheets comes with 20 printable pages AND a set of DIGITAL math Boom Cards!

This set for kindergarten and 1st grade covers making 10, addition, subtraction, place value, measurement, shapes, and more! There are at least 10 cut-and-glue workbook pages to address the Common Core Standards* of each grade. Some of the pages address the standards in both grades. Scroll down to read more about Boom Cards.

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FREE MISC. LESSON - “Lining Up Tips”

by Diamond Moms Treasury
Kindergarten - 5th Grade

Lining Up Tips

Being able to line up and walk in the hallways in an effective manner will make life smoother for the teacher and the students.

This is a set of posters to use as suggestions for powerful lining up and walking in the hallways.

Included are suggestions for different ways to line up as well as a “looks like, sounds like” t chart. A couple of options have been given for some posters.

A blank t chart and poster border have also been included.

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FREE MISC. LESSON - “2026 JULY Calendar Template Summer Holidays and Monthly Observances”

by SNAPPY DEN Academy
Pre-Kindergarten - 12th Grade

Get the FREE July calendar with daily, weekly and monthly holidays and observances you can use in your ELA class!

July is the summer month of living intensely. Just like me, maybe you are also thinking about the ways in which you can get your students engaged and develop their skills in your ELA class every single day. If you are looking to put together an efficient July monthly planner for your middle school ELA class, you are in the right place.

Let’s dive into some resources that will make both our lives as pleasant as a day at the beach and hopefully our classes as well.

BELL RINGERS (make the students work from the first minute)

✨ July Bell Ringers ELA - Holiday of the Day Morning Work Prompts Warmups

✨ Summer Picture of the Day Inference Bell Ringers

READING (rediscover the pleasure of diving into articles, short stories, poems)

✨ Summer Short Story - The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield

✨ Patriotic Poem Lesson - The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus

WRITING (creative activities that the students will adore)

✨ Summer Blackout Poetry - Short Stories Pages with Poem Writing Templates

✨ Summer Vacation Journal Writing Prompts Morning Work (excellent if you are teaching summer school)

EMERGENCY SUB PLANS (be ready even if you have to be away from class)

✨ July Emergency Sub Plans Middle School Fun ELA Substitute Teacher Activities

✨ Summer Activities - Middle School Worksheets and Emergency Sub Plans

SPECIAL HOLIDAYS (use every single opportunity to strengthen ELA skills)

✨ 4th of July - U.S Independence Day

BUNDLE OF THE MONTH (huge discount for the entire month)

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Before we all head towards this next month, I have one last gift for you. Are you ready?

Grab now the FREE ready to print July calendar with daily, weekly and monthly holidays and observances!

I print and use this calendar in my class and my students love to cross off the days as they go by. 

I hope you like the activities that I will use in my class this summer. If you plan to use something interesting, hit the question button and tell me what.

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