A whimsical first-grade ELA lesson teaching the power of silent 'e' through hands-on spelling wizard activities and guided practice.

A first-grade decoding lesson focused on reading and tracking simple sentences featuring vowel-consonant-e (silent e) words for fluency.

Students combine their cumulative learning of sensing verbs, prepositional phrases, and comparisons to co-construct and independently draft a descriptive paragraph about an outback landscape, utilizing a multi-tiered writing frame.

Students learn how prepositional phrases give information about 'where' and 'when' events occur, practicing adding them to simple sentences containing sensing verbs to build descriptive detail.

Students investigate sensing verbs related to the five senses, identifying how the author uses them to share how natural elements feel during drought, and brainstorming sensory details about the outback.

Students explore how authors use figurative language to paint 'word pictures' by identifying comparisons using 'like' and 'as' in the text, and co-constructing similes about the natural world.

Students sequence the key events in 'Mallee Sky' (drought changing to welcome rainfall) using a simplified storyboard planner, identifying how environmental patterns affect the landscape.

A comprehensive, tiered sentence unscrambling lesson designed for first-grade students. It features three levels of differentiated, print-and-go worksheets (Emergent, Developing, Advanced) alongside an instructional Teacher Guide and Answer Key.

A comprehensive sight word practice lesson covering Dolch lists from Pre-Primer through Grade 3. Students complete contextual fill-in-the-blank sentences supported by illustrated word banks to build reading fluency and word recognition.

A comprehensive progress monitoring and practice toolkit designed to track and accelerate decoding of one-syllable short vowel words containing digraphs, bonus letters, and glued sounds.

A comprehensive school-wide literacy program and implementation toolkit. Includes a 40-week master quest index, printable student submission slips, and a high-impact library bulletin board poster.

A hands-on spelling and early phonics lesson focused on key vocabulary words. Students practice recognition, tracing, and sentence application of common short vowel words.

Discover diphthongs 'oi' and 'oy' (sounding like /oy/). Students explore a lively toy workshop where they find, spell, and sort treasure coins and clever toys.

Navigate the long O sound spelled with vowel teams 'oa' and 'ow'. Students join a brave goat traveling down an old country road, collecting words along the journey.

Explore the long E sound spelled with vowel teams 'ee' and 'ea'. Students dive deep into the ocean to meet colorful creatures and unlock spelling treasures.

Master the long A sound spelled with vowel teams 'ai' and 'ay'. Students follow a rainy day adventure, hunt for target words, and build their spelling skills.

Focuses on identifying central message, lessons learned, and illustrations. Students explore the value of honesty and teamwork while practicing welded sounds (-nk, -ng) and inflectional endings.