Autumn Phonics Adventure

A 3-day structured literacy small-group sequence grounded in HMH instructional routines and the Science of Reading. Covers phonemic awareness, phonics decoding of VCe patterns, decodable fluency, and evidence-based comprehension.

A comprehensive phonics lesson exploring mixed long vowel spelling patterns across A, E, I, O, and U. Students decode, sort, and apply spelling generalizations through detective-themed missions, visual modeling, and hands-on practice.

A decodable reading comprehension worksheet adapted from Miss Baker at a VCe and r-controlled phonics level. Features a decodable passage about Gail Day and Miss Baker's spelling trees, 1 multiple-choice question, and 2 free-response questions with primary handwriting lines.

An interactive, high-impact reading comprehension unit targeting core foundational literature standards. Students master recounting diverse folktales, extracting central morals, and analyzing how characters respond to major events and challenges.

A comprehensive 7th-grade ELA lesson focused on mastering dialogue punctuation, capitalization, interrupted speech, and speaker paragraphing through targeted editing tasks and manuscript rewriting.

A complete 2-page teacher answer key for the Vowel Codebreaker Worksheet. Features filled solutions, phonetic pattern explanations, common distractor analyses, exemplar student sentences, and a quick-score grading rubric.

An engaging elementary English Language Arts unit connecting grammar mechanics, mentor texts, vocabulary, and sensory descriptive writing.

Day 3 small-group lesson focusing on close reading comprehension with text-evidence questioning, decodable sentence dictation, and independent word-building assessment.

A 1st-grade informational reading passage about jack-o'-lanterns featuring authentic non-fiction text features including headings, an illustrated diagram with labels, a photo caption, bold vocabulary words, and a fun fact callout box. The second page features four standards-aligned multiple-choice questions assessing text feature comprehension along with a text feature detective scavenger hunt.

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.

Day 2 small-group lesson prioritizing high-frequency word orthographic mapping, partner-assisted decodable reading with prosody routines, and comparative word sorting.

A 2-page student practice worksheet featuring 5 detective-themed missions: sound vault sorting, vowel team fill-ins, a secret cipher riddle decoder, sentence proofing, and field report sentence writing.