Deep South Teaching Resources (AL, AR, LA, MS, SC)
Deep South Teaching Resources (AL, AR, LA, MS, SC)
One place to find printable K–12 units for five southern states, then step through to the page for yours. Every unit carries four worksheet levels, an editable deck, timed plans and finished keys.
Start with one unit →Resources that fit
Units that travel across all five states
The Reformation unit for Grades 7–9 is the cheapest way to test the format, three elementary history units cover the younger grades, and the thematic social studies curriculum collects a year of material.
Martin Luther & the Reformation – Teaching Resources for Grades 7–9
Inventions That Changed the World Unit – Worksheets, Projects & Slides (Grades 1–4)
Knights & Castles in the Middle Ages Unit – Worksheets, Projects & Slides (Grades 1–4)
Life in a Medieval Town Unit – Worksheets, Projects & Slides (Grades 1–4)
Thematic Social Studies Curriculum: Engage Minds, Inspire Change
Why teachers here use these
What these five states have in common
Grouping these states together is not geography for its own sake. Each has written an early-literacy gate into law, and each has an assessment calendar that reaches into every other subject's time. Mississippi's Literacy-Based Promotion Act sets a third-grade reading retention gate; South Carolina's Read to Succeed Act does the same with exemptions; Alabama's Literacy Act and Numeracy Act add a retention gate plus mandated math coaching time. Louisiana goes further up the grades, tying LEAP results to a promotion policy at fourth and eighth grade. Arkansas rebuilt the surrounding system with the 2023 LEARNS Act, which brought a new literacy and retention policy and moved assessment to ATLAS. For a teacher, the effect is the same in all five places: intervention blocks and testing windows take the minutes, and the planning period disappears into scheduling before a single worksheet gets written. Finished units are worth buying precisely because they return the part of the week that policy has already spent.
A sequence you can run
The five-lesson shape of every unit
Units are written as a sequence rather than a pile of handouts, so a single download gives you roughly two weeks of teaching with the timings already worked out.
- Open with something concreteThe first lesson gives students a scene, object or short source to describe. Writing begins early, and the worksheet supplies the sentence frames a hesitant class needs.
- Deliver the backgroundThe slide deck fills in the context and vocabulary, and the matching sheet turns it into student notes instead of dictation, which keeps the record gradeable.
- Apply the method againNew material, same approach. This is the lesson that shows you who has taken the skill with them and who is still copying last week's structure.
- Choose the tier per studentFour versions of the same practice go out at once. Content and question are identical; only the reading load and the amount of support change between them.
- Finish with graded writingThe closing task is built to be collected, with a key setting out what a complete answer contains, so the mark rests on stated criteria rather than impression.
What's covered
What every download includes
Each unit is complete on the day it arrives and comes in formats you can print, project or edit before students see it, whichever of the five states you teach in.
- Worksheets at four challenge levels
- Editable slide deck
- Complete answer keys
- Lesson plan with timings
- Printable and digital formats
- Word and PowerPoint files
Browse by jurisdiction
Choose your state
Each state page names the standards, the agency and the assessment for that jurisdiction, and lists the units that suit its grade bands. Start there if you want the local detail.
Make it work in your building
Two ways these earn their price
The four tiers do practical work in classrooms where reading levels sit years apart. One shared handout produces copying at one end of the room and boredom at the other, and neither result tells you anything about learning. Four versions of a single task keep everyone on the same concept while the support varies, and because the underlying question does not change, the written work can be compared across the whole class. In states with retention gates and promotion policies, that comparability is worth keeping: it is what lets you show what a particular student could do, on a particular concept, on a particular day.
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
Are these resources official in any of these states?
No. They are independent teaching materials, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by any state education agency. Each unit is written to the concepts and skills that state academic standards describe for a subject and grade band, which is why the same unit is usable in five different states. Check the preview against your own district's scope and sequence before buying rather than relying on any alignment claim.
Do these fit our state tests and end-of-course exams?
They support the classroom work behind them and nothing more. The Alabama Comprehensive Assessment Program (ACAP), ATLAS (Arkansas Teaching and Learning Assessment System), the Mississippi Academic Assessment Program (MAAP), SC READY and Louisiana's LEAP High School end-of-course exams required for graduation all ask students to read unfamiliar material and write structured responses. That is what these units practice. We publish no test items and make no claim about scores.
How much preparation time does a finished unit remove?
The building work, which is the slow part: sequencing five lessons, writing the slides, producing four versions of each worksheet and marking out the keys. What remains for you is reading the plan, deciding which tier each student gets, and cutting whatever does not suit your class. In a week where an intervention block has already eaten your prep, that is the difference between teaching a planned lesson and improvising one.
What can I look at before I buy?
Every product page carries a preview with sample worksheet pages, slides, the lesson plan layout, the grade band and the file list. Read the sample pages for reading level rather than topic, and check how many periods the plan assumes against the time your schedule actually gives you. Both of those are visible before purchase, and both decide whether a unit works in your room.
These are digital downloads. What is the refund position?
Downloads arrive immediately and cannot be sent back the way a printed book can, so they are handled differently from physical goods. See the store's refund policy for the terms that apply; we will not restate them here. The sensible approach is to use the preview and buy one low-cost single unit first, so you are judging the format on a small purchase before committing to a curriculum.
My grade is in a reading-gate year. Is there room for a full history unit?
That is the honest tension in all five states, and the answer is usually a smaller version of the unit. The tiered worksheets let you run the same content in fewer periods by using the shorter sheets, the deck can be projected instead of printed, and the written close still gives you assessable work. Buying rather than building is what makes a compressed unit possible in a week that has already lost time to intervention.
One purchase, a year of social studies
The thematic social studies curriculum collects the lessons, worksheets and keys into a single sequenced download.
See the full curriculum →