High standards. Hard evidence.
Built on what the research says about reading and feedback.
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It has always been incredibly hard to teach required state standards while also preparing for state exams. These social studies lessons do both at once. They are written for public school, homeschool, private, and classical classrooms. The live units now cover history and AP U.S. Government. Geography, economics, and more civics are coming.
Students read real social studies content and work with primary sources first, then write from the evidence. They practice close reading, using evidence, making inferences, considering the author's purpose, and determining vocabulary in context. The content is the unit you already have to teach.
Questions are written in the format of ACT-style, SAT-style, and state-test-style items, so the format stops being the thing that trips students up.
The teacher key explains every wrong answer, not just the right one. Practice can be scored in class, while students still remember why they picked B.
Teach the required course and give students practice in the formats they will see on state exams, the ACT, and the SAT, without setting content aside for a separate test-prep unit.
A complete unit you can run at the kitchen table: passages, questions, a key that explains the traps, and a clear place to start.
College-prep reading practice that still teaches the required social studies content, with professional teacher support and no fluff.
The work fits the logic and rhetoric stages: question the source, weigh the evidence, then argue a position in writing.
Every unit passes a blind solve, a separate fact audit, and a fix pass before release. That process is described on the Research and Methods page.
32 units from Native peoples and contact through the present, plus a 1929–Present bundle and a WWII museum project. Students practice high-level reading comprehension alongside the required content. Navy and gold high school design.
12 live units from empires and trade through World War II and the Holocaust, with ACT-style, SAT-style, and state-test-style practice.
ELA reading test prep that teaches the required middle school U.S. history standards, with 8th grade U.S. history reading passages and NAEP and PSAT 8/9 practice. Teal and coral design.
Period and unit practice exams in the 2027 format, with bundles and free samplers. AP® U.S. Government and Politics is also available.
Buying for more than one teacher? Start on the For Schools page, or get in touch about a group purchase. Single copies and additional licenses are sold on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Sourcing questions ask about the source, not the event. Four questions to ask first, with a worked example from July 1776.
The real numbers on the ACT reading section, the pacing math, and how to read for the map instead of every detail. Written for teachers.
What the research says about feedback, where it can backfire, and a simple routine for scoring practice work in class the same day.
Notes on the research I had in mind when I wrote these lessons, and what that looks like in the units.
What a major review says about practice testing, the testing effect, and useful feedback, and why I still grade in class.
Background knowledge and reading comprehension, and why the 8th grade line keeps U.S. history in the reading work.
Disciplinary literacy, document-based lessons, and elementary evidence on social studies time and reading.
Close reading, evidence, inference, author's purpose, and vocabulary in context, with a link to the World War II unit.
A short email list for teachers and parents is in the works. Until it launches, the free samplers and classroom trackers are available on the Free Samples page and on Teachers Pay Teachers. No signup form is collected on this site yet.
