A collection of resources for second-grade students to practice and master common phonics patterns, including digraphs and blends. Includes student word lists and a teacher assessment tracker.

A visual literacy lesson for 9th grade students focusing on the transition from explicit storytelling to symbolic representation in a book spotlight assignment. Students learn to translate themes, characters, and motifs into visual metaphors for a creative bookmark project.

Students develop a shared vocabulary of terms related to modern global citizenship through a collaborative project where they define complex social concepts in their own words.

A lesson for 1st-grade students to learn how to find simple text evidence in short, informational passages about nature and space.

Students will practice reading informational texts and finding specific details to answer multiple-choice and short-answer questions.

A junior version of the mystery unit focusing on 1st-grade foundational skills, simple sight words, and basic reading comprehension.

A high-stakes reading mystery where students use context clues and inferencing to solve "cases" while practicing foundational 3rd-grade literacy skills.

A lesson focused on Chapter 8 of Treasure Island, exploring Long John Silver's strategic leadership and Jim Hawkins' observations during a tense pirate mutiny.

A targeted lesson for ELA Regents Part 3 preparation, focusing on identifying central ideas and analyzing how literary devices develop those ideas using the short story 'The Mirror That Lies'.

This lesson equips ELL students with essential close reading strategies for the NYS ELA Regents, focusing on annotation, vocabulary in context, and identifying author's purpose and tone using passages from the 2025 exams.

This lesson prepares students for the NYS Regents English Language Arts Exam Part 3: Text Analysis Response. It focuses on identifying and analyzing metaphor, imagery, diction, and tone in nonfiction passages using actual exam excerpts.