Animal Allies

A comprehensive structured literacy sequence targeting the vowel team 'aw', offering dual instructional pathways using both the Classic Orton-Gillingham 7-step routine and the 10-part Wilson Reading System (WRS) framework.

A high-impact 20-minute small-group reading intervention and guided practice lesson focusing on RL.2.2/RL.3.2. Students learn to recount diverse cultural fables and folktales using the Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then strategy and uncover the central moral or life lesson.

A print-efficient 2-up exit ticket featuring the Quechua folktale 'The Little Hummingbird', testing students' ability to recount story events chronologically and identify the central moral with text evidence.

A four-day opinion writing unit guiding students through forming claims, analyzing paired texts, and crafting evidence-based essays comparing theatrical plays and books.

A 3rd-grade STAAR-aligned reading comprehension assessment featuring an original fictional narrative, rigorous question stems, and an instructional answer key targeting key character, vocabulary, and figurative language TEKS.

An engaging 9-slide visual presentation introducing elementary students to major world habitats, essential survival needs, and unique animal adaptations.

A comprehensive second-grade phonemic and auditory discrimination curriculum targeting easily confused consonant pairs and digraphs through diagnostic listening sheets, teacher scripts, and tactile sorting manipulatives.

A third-grade reading comprehension lesson focused on standard 3.RC.5, teaching students to identify the main idea and key supporting details using autumn-themed passages and an investigative detective framework.

A two-page follow-up student activity worksheet featuring the Chinese folktale 'The Empty Pot', structured annotation guides, a dedicated SWBST graphic organizer, and a moral deduction evidence tracker.

A five-day Orton-Gillingham instructional sequence targeting 11 high-frequency red and decodable words through consistent daily routines, progressive sentence pyramids, and decodable stories.

A comprehensive ELA lesson focused on informational reading strategies, teaching students how to identify central ideas, locate key supporting details, and interpret nonfiction text features to deepen comprehension.

A visual 5-slide instructional deck for small-group instruction, breaking down the SWBST recounting strategy, illustrating the Ashanti folktale 'Anansi and Turtle', contrasting topic versus moral, and launching the follow-up investigation.