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Follow along as Cassie Logan, a young black girl, discovers and experiences the injustices of racial prejudice in the American South after the Civil War. This guide is the perfect tool to aid students in analyzing and comprehending this exciting story.

Follow the story of a young girl stranded for years on an island off the California coast. This instructional guide for literature features rigorous and engaging lessons and activities to aid in students' comprehension and analysis.

Help fourth grade students improve their geography skills with fun and effective daily practice activities. Focusing on a new topic each week, students will build map skills, apply information and data, and connect what was learned.

The Hunger Games: An Instructional Guide for Literature provides lesson plans and activities for this popular Young Adult fiction novel. This valuable resource guides teachers with ways to add rigor with complex literature. Text-dependent questions help students analyze the text with higher-order thinking skills, with lessons focused on story elements, vocabulary, and more. Close reading activities throughout the literature units encourages students to use textual evidence as they revisit passages to respond more critically. With various methods of assessing comprehension, this instructional guide offers strategies for cross-curricular activities as students build a greater understanding of this great literary work.

The 180 Days of Problem Solving for Grade 4 offers daily problem-solving practice geared towards developing the critical thinking skills needed to approach complex problems. This teacher-friendly resource provides thematic units that connect to a standards-based skill that fourth grade students are expected to know to advance to the next level. Lesson plans offer guidance and support for every day of the week, outlining strategies and activities that dig deeper than routine word problems. Each week students will use visual representations and analyze different types of word problems (including non-routine, multi-step, higher thinking problems). This comprehensive resource builds critical thinking skills and connects to national and state standards.