A comprehensive assessment on fairy tale elements and plot structures for elementary students, featuring two differentiated levels to meet specific grade-level standards.
A comprehensive lesson focused on helping students master the skill of selecting and citing the 'best' textual evidence to support an argument, specifically designed to address gaps in writing and diction analysis.
A lesson focused on the structural link between a thesis statement and its supporting topic sentences using real-world contexts. Students will practice extracting key ideas from a thesis to build the foundation of a cohesive argument.
Students explore the 'Wood Wide Web'—the underground fungal network trees use to communicate—while learning strategies to identify the main idea and distinguish it from the topic and supporting details.
A creative storytelling lesson for K-3 students that uses found objects to develop oral narrative skills, sequencing, and descriptive language in a cozy campfire-themed setting.
A reading comprehension lesson focused on identifying text structures and author's purpose across multiple genres for elementary students.
A final mastery assessment where students apply all three core skills to paired narrative and informational texts.
A mixed-skill review session applying opinion identification and structure analysis to complex informational texts.
Students compare two short texts on the same topic to identify points of agreement and disagreement.
Students analyze informational texts to identify the 'compare and contrast' organizational structure.
Students learn to identify an author's opinion within a narrative text using a 'fact vs. clue' detective approach.
A lesson focused on identifying and using similes and metaphors to enhance poetic imagery and descriptive writing.
A targeted lesson for intermediate English Learners to master identifying the main idea and supporting details using a passage about the Earth's water cycle.
A cumulative review where students synthesize traits, motivations, and POV to complete a final character analysis.