39 results
Social studies Common Core RL.6.5 literature circles
The Book Thief Novel Study and Project Menu; Plus Digital Option
Everything you need to use Markus Zusaks's award-winning WW2 novel, The Book Thief effectively in your classroom! A no-prep standards based interactive notebook literature guide with follow-up reading response questions for every chapter as well as vocabulary, writing projects, activities and enrichment projects. Teacher friendly engaging lessons to use with this award winning novel in your classroom while encouraging critical reading skills.CCSS/STAAR Aligned! Great for "Distance Learning".Eve
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 9th
Types:
Refugee by Alan Gratz Novel Study
The Refugee Novel Study resource is a comprehensive set of standards-aligned, rigorous, instructional materials for teaching the Refugee by Alan Gratz. With these Common Core aligned materials, students will deeply engage with the novel and develop their literacy and critical thinking skills. The novel study includes 100+ resources to help you implement an engaging, rigorous ELA or Social Studies unit. Snapshot of Resources Included in Unit:30 Common Core Aligned Lesson Plans18 Literary Analysis
Grades:
5th - 8th
Types:
The Diary of Anne Frank Novel Study and Project Menu; Digital Option
No-Prep novel study for the bestselling "Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl", a standards based interactive notebook literature guide with follow-up reading response questions for every entry as well as vocabulary, writing projects, activities and enrichment projects. Teacher friendly engaging lessons to use with this award winning diary autobiography in your classroom while encouraging critical reading skills.CCSS/STAAR Aligned! Great for "Distance Learning".Everything you need to use this
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 8th
Types:
Also included in:Â World War II Novel Study Bundle, Seven Complete WWII Literature Units!
The Castle in the Attic Novel Study Digital + Printable Book Unit
Are you looking for an all-in-one unit for The Castle in the Attic by Elizabeth Winthrop? Look no further. This comprehensive digital + printable unit includes vocabulary practice, comprehension quizzes, constructed response writing prompts with organizers for planning, and language arts lessons. Lessons are aligned to the Common Core Standards for grades 5–6.✨  ‍ DIGITAL RESOURCESThis novel study includes links to digital resources. Boom Learning is used for multiple-choice, short answer, and f
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 6th
Types:
Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust Novel Study Comprehension & Vocabulary
This Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust Novel Study Bundle includes comprehension questions, text-based vocabulary activities, graphic organizers, and more - all in a ready-to-use format that allows you to tackle reading skills and strategies through a deeply meaningful text that helps students begin to understand the Holocaust through the lens of a survivor. Using student-friendly printable and digital formatting, this Elly Unit Plan is perfect for teaching literature groups or working with
Grades:
5th - 7th
War Horse Novel Study: Comprehension Book Unit for Book by Michael Morpurgo
This novel study for War Horse by Michael Morpurgo will save you hours of planning for your next class novel study. The engaging comprehension activities help students dig deeper into the plot while targeting high-impact comprehension skills that they can transfer to other texts.This War Horse novel study is purposefully designed to engage students with an approachable format. It doesn't overwhelm your readers with countless chapter questions that just require them to regurgitate the text, inste
Grades:
6th - 8th
Finding Langston Novel Study
This product is a comprehensive set of instructional materials for teaching Finding Langston by Lesa Cline-Ransome. With over 70+ Common Core aligned materials, students will develop their literacy skills while deeply engaging with the novel through this 5-WEEK unit. The fiction close reading activities, the literary analysis resources, historical nonfiction readings, extension activities, vocabulary, assessments, and essays all provide opportunities for your students to practice and apply what
Grades:
5th - 7th
Types:
Salt Novel Study and Project Menu; Plus Digital Option
Everything you need to use Helen Frost's award-winning novel, Salt, effectively in your classroom! A no-prep standards based interactive notebook literature guide with follow-up reading response questions for every chapter as well as vocabulary, writing projects, activities and enrichment projects. Teacher friendly engaging lessons to use with this award winning novel in your classroom while encouraging critical reading skills.CCSS/STAAR Aligned! Great for "Distance Learning".Everything you nee
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 8th
Comparing Cinderella Stories Around the World End of the Year Activity
More than 900 Cinderella Fairy Tale stories have been written around the world! Use this Text Companion Resource to introduce your Middle School SS or ELA students to 13 Cinderella tales from various ancient history cultures.Flexibility is built in! Use the included graphic organizers to focus student analysis on the cultural elements of each story (Ancient History SS classroom) and/or on the story structure (ELA classroom). While the graphic organizers in this resource can be easily used with
Grades:
6th - 9th
Novel Study-The Golden Bull
This product has several documents to help you with a unit around the wonderful novel The Golden Bull by Marjorie Cowley. I like to read this novel while teaching my students about the ancient civilization of Sumer in Mesopotamia; it really helps them visualize what life was like 5,000 years ago.Included in this document is a Word document that has an introduction and reading plan for the novel (which you can adjust as needed), a chapter summary organizer, a C-SPACE organizer (a great memory dev
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 7th
Malala: My Story of Standing Up for Girls' Rights Novel Unit
This 3-week novel study unit for Malala My Story of Standing Up for Girls' Rights by Malala Yousafzai is ideal for 4th, 5th, or 6th-grade classrooms and is a great book unit to add to your civil rights study or for use during Women's History Month. Daily comprehension activities make great discussion questions and require students to focus on text analysis and responding to literature without overwhelming them with countless chapter questions that have learners regurgitate the text.Malala: My St
Grades:
4th - 6th
Number the Stars: Chapter 13-15 Comprehension Questions
Quiz/ test for Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. This activity is written in an A-B format, where students are required to support their answers with direct quotes from the novel. This ensures that students are refer back to the text to confirm their answers.
It includes multiple choice questions along with a short-response prompt. This document can be edited to adjust to the needs of your students. Additionally, these questions serve as higher-order thinking questions.
Answer key is provided.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
47 Days, Number the Stars, Boy in Striped Pajamas Bundle WW2: Chapter Questions
140+ PAGES OF QUESTIONS and ANSWERS! This resources provides chapter context questions w/ answer key for three young adult books: 47 Days, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, and Number the Stars. All three works are perfect adaptations for middle and lower high school students to access and suplement instruction about World War II and the European front. Students will be able to build their skills of character analysis and development, author's purpose, and word choice. My students love reading abo
Grades:
4th - 9th
Woods Runner: A Literature Study with Informational Text
This comprehensive literature study combines Gary Paulsen's Woods Runner with informational texts designed to help students better comprehend the novel's setting and the events of the Revolutionary War. The unit is designed for practice of a majority of standards in both Common Core literature and informational text strands. Through the integration of both types of texts, students will develop a deeper understanding of the novel and the time period. They will also critique Paulsen's ability t
Grades:
4th - 7th
Black Beauty Novel Study Unit: Comprehension Questions & Vocabulary Activities
This 4-week novel study unit for Anna Sewell's classic Black Beauty is ideal for 4th, 5th, or 6th-grade classrooms and is a great book unit to engage those horse lovers. Daily comprehension activities make great discussion questions and require students to focus on text analysis and responding to literature without overwhelming them with countless chapter questions that have learners regurgitate the text.Black Beauty and this printable novel study unit will engage readers while you cover importa
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 6th
Ground Zero by Alan Gratz Novel Study Questions Google Slides™ Compatible
This product includes 212 comprehension, literary instruction, reflection, critical thinking, discussion, and composition prompts on cards for studying the novel Ground Zero written by Alan Gratz. This book is a highly engaging and suspenseful historical fiction novel with many timely themes. This story opens the door to many important discussion opportunities for students within the classroom and beyond.Book Themes: Family, Survival, 9/11, War, Resilience, Afghanistan, U.S. History, Multiple P
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 7th
Number the Stars & The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (YA Novels) Chapter Questions
115+ PAGES OF QUESTIONS and ANSWERS! This resource provides chapter context questions w/ answer key based on Number the Stars, a Newbery Honor Award Winner by Lois Lowry and The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, by John Boyne. These historical fiction novels are perfect for a middle school or lower high school classroom. They offer quick reads with tangible, real experiences and characters to help students understand World War II Europe. Use these resources to guide disccusions in class or for compreh
Grades:
6th - 9th
Front Desk by Kelly Yang Novel Study Unit with Reading Comprehension Questions
You want your students to read this realistic fiction novel and to walk away with a deeper understanding and some skills review. But you don't know where to find the time for all of that. This COMPLETE GUIDE for FRONT DESK takes students from start to finish and all you have to do is print and go!Front Desk is a great book for upper elementary and middle school students that tackles hard topics about refugees, poverty, and racism in a non-judgmental way. âś…TAKE A LOOK AT THE PREVIEW to see all
Grades:
4th - 7th
Types:
Also included in:Â Front Desk by Kelly Yang Novel Study with Figurative Language BOOM Cards
Someplace to Call Home Novel Study Questions Google Slides™ Compatible
This product includes 112 comprehension, literary instruction, reflection, critical thinking, discussion, and composition prompts on cards for studying the novel Someplace to Call Home written by Sandra Dallas. This book is an engaging historical fiction novel with many important themes. This story opens the door to many important discussion opportunities for students within the classroom and beyond.Book Themes: Family, Great Depression, Bullying, Self-Awareness, Empathy, Dust BowlThis book is
Subjects:
Grades:
3rd - 6th
The Witch of Blackbird Pond Novel Study
This 4-week novel study unit for The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare is ideal for 5th, 6th, or 7th grade classrooms and will save hours of planning for your book unit. Daily comprehension activities make great discussion questions and require students to focus on text analysis and responding to literature without overwhelming them with countless chapter questions that have learners regurgitate the text.The Witch of Blackbird Pond is a great book for your next literature unit o
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 7th
Readers Theater Black History Month and MLK Script- Whole Class Script
Celebrate Black History Month and MLK with this Readers' Theater script re-enactment activity in your social studies or ELA class. Inspire students as they experience the March on Washington- the most important civil rights demonstration in US history. The introductory photo PowerPoint - and the narrators’ commentary- supplies a factual framework. Your students march around the classroom as members of three separate groups of protesters. A minor medical emergency unites the three groups and the
Grades:
5th - 8th
Shades of Gray by Caroline Reeder Novel Study: A Print & Use Book Unit
This 2-week novel study unit for Shades of Gray by Caroline Reeder is ideal for 4th, 5th, or 6th-grade classrooms and is a great book unit to add to your study of the Civil War. Daily comprehension activities make great discussion questions and require students to focus on text analysis and responding to literature without overwhelming them with countless chapter questions that have learners regurgitate the text.Shades of Gray is a great book for a cross-curricular literature unit or book club.
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 6th
Good Masters, Sweet Ladies Discussion Question Guide
Are you teaching Good Masters, Sweet Ladies, and would like extensive questions based on each monologue in the book? Use these for class discussions or assign a poem to groups and use the questions to promote rich, student-led discussions or literature circles!What's Included:253 total questions on each monologue and accompanying nonfiction passage.Questions for each monologue require students to:Make InferencesUse Text EvidenceDefine words using context cluesExamine connotative meaningsMake Pre
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
Out of the Dust: Chapter Questions & Answer Key (Karen Hesse) Dust Bowl
45 PAGES OF QUESTIONS and ANSWERS! This resource provides chapter context questions w/ answer key based on the John Newbery Medal Award winning Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse. It is is the perfect for middle and lower high school students to access this pivotal moment in American History (the Dust Bowl) and life in the Heartland of America during the Great Depression. Follow the story of Billie Jo Kelby in this historical fiction novel composed in poetry format and based on true events. Use thes
Subjects:
Grades:
5th - 8th
Showing 1-24 of 39 results
Find Social Studies - History resources | TPT
Importance of learning social studies
Social studies offers valuable insights into history, geography, and much more. Social studies captivates students by providing them with perspectives from the past, present, and future, allowing them to understand history and navigate current events. It enables them to appreciate how previous generations have shaped their present reality. In essence, social studies opens their eyes to the vastness of life beyond their immediate surroundings.
Benefits of learning social studies
Learning social studies offers many benefits to students in terms of helping them develop a holistic understanding of the world. Namely, it helps them:
- Learn about the achievements, challenges, perspectives, traditions, and customs of different societies
- Evaluate information, analyze evidence, and make informed judgments about complex social, economic, and political issues
- Become active, responsible, and engaged citizens
- Comprehend global issues such as human rights, environmental sustainability, and economic disparities
By teaching social studies, teachers can help students develop critical thinking skills, foster civic engagement, and promote social awareness and responsibility.
Teaching with social studies resources
On TPT, social studies resources come in various formats, from worksheets to interactive notebooks to units. They can be used to enhance learning, assess a student’s mastery of social studies concepts, or to reteach a tricky topic. With plenty of TPT resources at your fingertips, teaching and learning social studies will be so much easier.
Discover printable and digital social studies resources
If you’re a teacher or parent looking for printable or digital social studies resources, TPT has an extensive array of instructional materials for every learning need, topic, or grade level. Whether you’re teaching students about America’s democratic process, the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., how to read maps, or World War II, we’ve got you covered.
Social studies resources on TPT offer informative lessons, engaging texts, intriguing facts, interactive puzzles, and enjoyable trivia games. These grade-specific resources ensure that all students can access age-appropriate materials that stimulate their minds and enhance their creative thinking abilities.
For instance, first graders can explore worksheets on senses and emotions, followed by a coloring page featuring Harriet Tubman. Older students can test their knowledge with quizzes on statistics and capital cities, then delve into the history of the Underground Railroad through an informational sheet or enjoy a word search focused on civil rights leaders. With such a wide variety of subjects and topics covered, our social studies pages provide endless opportunities for students to explore the world in captivating ways.
Frequently asked questions about teaching social studies
What types of social studies lessons are available on TPT?
There are many different types of history resources sold by Sellers on TPT. Some popular social studies lessons include U.S. history, world history, ancient history, geography, civics, and government.
How do I find social studies lessons on TPT?
Educators can save time preparing history lessons with resources created by experienced teachers. Simply start a search for social studies resources on the TPT marketplace, and filter by grade level, price, and/or resource type to find materials that've been proven to work in classrooms like yours. No matter what you’re teaching, there are plenty of social studies lessons and activities sold by Sellers on TPT that are tailored to meet your students' skill levels.
TPT is the largest marketplace for PreK-12 resources, powered by a community of educators.
IXL family of brands