Capital City Detectives

A detective-themed lesson teaching foundational capitalization rules, including the start of sentences, proper nouns, and the pronoun 'I'. Students act as 'Capital City Detectives' to identify and fix errors in case files.

AQAmber Quinn

Capital City Detectives

AQAmber Quinn

Phonics Explorers Journey

A comprehensive UKG phonics sequence for 5-6 year olds, guiding them from basic CVC blending to consonant blends, digraphs, and simple sentence reading.

Lenny

CVC Word Detectives

A lesson containing eight CVC word fill-in worksheets designed for first-grade students, featuring engaging detective-themed line drawings for coloring and structured word banks.

Kristin Groves

Short E Word Detective Worksheet

Worksheet 2 of 8 in the CVC Word Detectives series. This student worksheet focuses on Short 'e' CVC words (hen, red, net, bed, leg), featuring five fill-in-the-blank sentences and corresponding line drawings for coloring.

Kristin Groves

Adventure Log Series

A comprehensive summer ELA bridge program for rising fourth graders, focusing on essential reading comprehension, vocabulary, and word study skills through engaging high-interest topics.

Jennifer Campbell

Sound Switchers

A targeted small-group intervention lesson designed for second graders struggling with short 'e' and short 'i' vowel confusion. Through playful 'vowel duels' and hands-on sentence completion cards, students build phoneme discrimination and comprehension skills.

Daniela

Short A Word Detective Worksheet

Worksheet 1 of 8 in the CVC Word Detectives series. This student worksheet focuses on Short 'a' CVC words (cat, map, hat, sad, bag), featuring five fill-in-the-blank sentences and corresponding line drawings for coloring.

Kristin Groves

Word Builders 300

A comprehensive vocabulary mastery sequence designed to help English learners and early readers build a core foundation of 300 high-frequency words. Organized across three themed modules, each featuring a complete 100-word student study packet with definitions, contextual examples, and handwriting lines, paired with high-impact instructional presentation slides.

Lenny

Vowel Detectives Short E and I

A highly structured small-group intervention lesson designed to help second graders distinguish between short e (/e/) and short i (/i/) sounds. Using a 'Vowel Detectives' theme, the lesson guides students through systematic phonological awareness, contextual decoding, and self-correction strategies in sentence-level reading.

Daniela

Sound Switchers Exit Ticket

A 1-page exit ticket and quick-assessment worksheet for students to demonstrate mastery of short 'e' vs. 'i' words in context and complete simple phoneme-swapping tasks.

Daniela

Sight Word Decoder Sequence

A 3-part comprehensive curriculum sequence mapping and teaching 150 high-frequency sight words phonetically. Includes three progressive mastery levels covering closed syllables, open syllables, silent E, vowel teams, r-controlled, and heart word decoding.

Nicole Thomson

Sentence Lab

A highly engaging, science-themed lesson where 3rd-grade students act as laboratory assistants to fuse subjects and predicates. Includes a slide deck, printable activity sheets, cut-out matching cards, 30 task cards, and a comprehensive teacher guide with answer keys.

Julia Turner

Vowel Duel Game Cards

Printable, minimal-prep hands-on card set including 8 paired word cards with emojis, 8 sentence-completion duel cards for context-based comprehension, and physical vowel tokens.

Capital City Detectives