A lesson designed to help students identify 'Right There' questions in text and use specific marking strategies (starring, underlining, and highlighting) to locate evidence directly within the passage.

A high-flying exploration of kites that integrates long 'i' phonics patterns and multisyllabic decoding strategies for upper elementary and middle school students.

A Grade 1 oral language lesson focused on narrating family traditions and celebrations. Students use temporal connectors and descriptive language to share a special story from their family life, aligned with WIDA Narrate standards.

Students produce their final 'radiant' copy and share their work with the group.

A guided editing session focused on flow, logic, and checking against the writing criteria.

Students draft their full paragraph about the Zuckerman's State Fair experience using their planning tools.

Using coordinating conjunctions (and, but, so) to create compound sentences that link related farm ideas.

Exploring the rhythm of writing by mixing short, punchy sentences with longer, descriptive ones.

Practicing different ways to start sentences (e.g., with adverbs or prepositional phrases) to avoid repetitive writing.

Learning how to wrap up a paragraph by connecting the final sentence back to the original topic sentence.

Using transition words to sequence three detail sentences in a logical order that makes sense to the reader.

Focus on crafting strong topic sentences that introduce the 'main idea' of the farm-themed paragraph.

Students learn the 1-3-1 paragraph structure (Topic Sentence, 3 Details, Concluding Sentence) using the visual metaphor of a spiderweb.

A comprehensive review of the RACE writing strategy, focusing on analyzing author's purpose and figurative language through guided instruction and highly-scaffolded practice.

Studies the stages of growth in animals, using WIDA's Narrate (life stories) and Explain (scientific stages) functions.