A comprehensive review of the Extended Constructed Response (ECR) for 3rd-grade STAAR, focusing on argumentative and opinion writing through a classroom pet debate.
An end-of-week assessment for 3rd graders focusing on identifying main ideas and supporting details within informational texts about science and social studies.
A set of tiered daily reading trackers for 2nd-3rd grade students, focusing on predicting, inferring, main idea, and visualizing. These logs provide differentiated support for various reading levels within a single classroom.
A lesson focused on location and category suffixes (-ary, -ery, -ory). Students analyze how these suffixes form nouns and adjectives related to places, groups, and qualities.
A lesson focused on abstract suffixes (-ment, -less, -ness). Students explore how these suffixes form nouns and adjectives related to states, qualities, and actions.
A lesson focused on agentive suffixes (-er, -or, -ian, -ist). Students analyze how these suffixes identify people who perform specific actions or hold certain roles.
A spelling assessment for Unit 10 Lesson 5 featuring 21 words including 'occupy', 'identify', and 'Powhatan'. Covers double consonants, multisyllabic words, proper nouns, and common vowel teams.
A lesson focused on comparative and superlative suffixes (-er, -est, -ier, -iest). Students explore how these suffixes change adjectives to compare two or more things.
Students learn to distinguish between literary and informational texts by examining purpose, structure, and language features. This lesson uses a detective theme to help students investigate the 'DNA' of different text types.
A lesson focused on the suffixes -y, -ly, and -ily. Students analyze how these suffixes change word meanings and usage through contextual application.
A mystery-themed lesson where students act as 'Setting Sleuths' to identify time and place using sensory details and contextual clues.
A lesson focused on the prefixes sub-, com-, pro-, and en-. Students apply their knowledge of these prefixes to identify and use words in various contexts.