Rhode Island Teaching Resources & Worksheets (Grades K–12)
Rhode Island Teaching Resources & Worksheets (Grades K–12)
Teaching units for Rhode Island classrooms, written to the concepts the state's adopted standards describe, with worksheets at four levels, an editable deck, complete answer keys and a lesson plan you can follow as written.
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Units Rhode Island teachers can use
Start with the Grade 3 digital math lab at $2.99, work up through the algebra workbooks on quadratics, ratio and real numbers, and take the science curriculum when you need a whole course.
Digital Math Lab – Grade 3 Practice: Addition, Subtraction & Division
Algebra – Quadratic Equations and Complex Solutions | Advanced Problem Solving Workbook | GRADE 8–11
Algebra Basics – Ratio, Proportion and Percentage | Math Foundations Workbook | GRADE 5–9
Algebra Basics – Real Numbers Explained | Number Sets and Foundations Workbook | GRADE 5–9
Comprehensive Science Curriculum: Unlock the Wonders of the Natural World
Why teachers here use these
Why Rhode Island teachers use these
Rhode Island runs a lot of school types in a small space. The department oversees districts, charters and Innovation schools directly, which is unusual for an agency of its size, so a teacher who changes buildings can meet a different curriculum, schedule and materials list without leaving the state. What does not change is the underlying content: the Common Core for English and mathematics, state frameworks for science and social studies, RICAS in grades 3 through 8 and the SAT at grade 11. Departments here are often one or two people deep, so there is nobody to hand you the unit that worked last year and no shared drive full of tested materials. That is where a finished download earns its price: the four tiers, the deck, the plan and the keys are already written, it assumes nothing about which building you are in, and it belongs to you rather than a school folder, so it moves when you do.
A sequence you can run
A five-lesson arc from one file
The units fill a run of lessons rather than a single period, so one purchase covers roughly a week and a half of teaching, with extension pages for whoever finishes first.
- Read the plan, not the whole fileThe lesson plan lists timings and what to put on the board first, so ten minutes with it is enough to know how the week runs before you print anything.
- Open on the worked exampleLesson one puts a solved problem on the screen and takes it apart. Students annotate the same example on paper, which gives the quiet half of the room something to hand in.
- Give out two tiers, not fourMost sections need only two of the levels. Choosing them in advance keeps the copying down and means nobody receives a page that is obviously the easy one.
- Use the key as a teaching toolHand the answer key to a pair of students and let them mark each other. What they argue about tells you which step to re-teach before the unit's final task.
- Bank the final written taskThe closing piece asks for an explanation in sentences. File it: it is the paper you want when a placement conversation or a family meeting asks what a student can do.
What's covered
What arrives when you download
Nothing here is a sample or a teaser; the file contains the whole unit, in formats you can print, project or edit before the first bell.
- Worksheets at four levels
- Slide deck you can edit
- Complete answer keys
- Lesson plan with timings
- Printable and digital formats
- Word and PowerPoint files
Make it work in your building
When the budget and the day give out
Rhode Island packs district, charter and Innovation schools into a small state, and a student who changes schools can arrive in your room with a different textbook behind them and no record of what has been covered. Four tiers of one task are useful on exactly that morning: you can hand the new student a level they can start immediately, with no diagnostic, and still have them on the topic the rest of the class is doing. Because every tier asks the same underlying question, the page they hand back is comparable to everyone else's, which gives you something concrete for the first phone call home.
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
Are these approved by RIDE?
No, and we would not say otherwise. These are independent teaching resources; we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE). Each unit is written to the concepts and skills the state's adopted standards describe — the Common Core for English and mathematics, the state frameworks for science and social studies — rather than to an official alignment document. Look at the preview and hold it next to your own scope and sequence before buying.
How do these relate to RICAS and the grade 11 SAT?
The Rhode Island Comprehensive Assessment System runs in grades 3 through 8, and the SAT is required at grade 11. Nothing here is a practice test, no RICAS or SAT items appear in these files, and we make no claim about scores. What the units give students is repeated work on multi-step problems, the vocabulary those items lean on, and written explanations — ordinary teaching of the kind those assessments sample, not a preparation program.
The listed grades do not match my class exactly. Does that matter?
Less than you would think. A band such as Grades 5–9 describes where a topic normally sits, and the four tiers already span more than a single year of difficulty, so the bottom level of one unit often suits a class a year younger than the label suggests. Editable files let you delete whatever does not apply. The honest test is the preview: if the problems match what your students need next month, the cover grade is not the deciding factor.
Can I grade the work these produce?
Teachers do. Each unit ends in a written task rather than a set of boxes, so what you collect shows method as well as answer, and the complete keys keep marking consistent across sections. Since all four tiers ask the same underlying question, a class set can be compared fairly even though the pages differed. How much it counts toward a report card is a school decision — we supply the task and the key, not a grading policy.
Would this work for a department meeting?
It can, particularly in a small building where the department is two people. One unit gives you a concrete thing to look at together: where the topic belongs in the sequence, which tier fits which section, and what an acceptable written answer looks like, so marking stays consistent between you. The purchase covers the teacher who bought it and their own classes, so a second teacher planning to run the material needs a copy of their own.
I teach at a charter school. Are these built for district classrooms only?
The units are not made for one school type. Rhode Island's department authorizes and monitors an unusually large share of charter and Innovation schools for a state of its size, and those buildings often run their own scope, schedule and materials list. Nothing here assumes a district pacing guide, a particular textbook or a fixed start date: the sequence stands on its own, and the editable files let you fit it to whatever calendar your school keeps.
One purchase, a full science course
The comprehensive science curriculum gathers the lessons, worksheets and answer keys into one download at $49.90.
See the science curriculum →