A pair of engaging recording sheets designed for students to track their reading on Epic!, featuring specific templates for both fiction and nonfiction texts.

Students practice combining simple sentences with the same subjects into compound sentences using pronouns and adding descriptive predicate expanders (where, when, why, and how).

A lesson focused on identifying central ideas and morals within realistic fiction through a story about responsibility and growth.

Students will learn how to structure an informative essay about the Black Death, focusing on its origins, spread, and impact on medieval society. This lesson provides a guided outline to help 5th graders organize their research into a cohesive multi-paragraph format.

A 5th grade ELA escape room focused on decoding and understanding multisyllabic r-controlled vowel words, set in a mysterious, locked library. Students must solve three linguistic challenges to find the 'Golden Key' and exit the library before the 40-minute timer expires.

A collection of visual goal-tracking dashboards for grades 1-5, using a rocket launch theme to help students visualize their reading fluency targets for the year.

A deep dive into morphology and common word endings (-able, -ible, -ary, -ery, -ory, -ant, -ent), focusing on how Latin roots and base words determine spelling patterns.

A comprehensive ELA assessment featuring informational and literary texts about Southwest Native American tribes, aligned to 5th-6th grade standards. Students will analyze text structure, theme, and main ideas while exploring the cultures of the Pueblo and Diné people.

A deep dive into Sheila Burnford's classic adventure, focusing on the trio's survival through the Canadian wilderness. Students explore character motivations, analyze the atmospheric setting, and practice collaborative discussion techniques.

A sports-themed mystery story and comprehension activity designed for 3rd-4th grade reading levels, focusing on making inferences and identifying key details.

A mystery-themed reading comprehension lesson featuring a 2-page original fiction story and a comprehensive assessment focused on Tier 2 vocabulary and analytical skills.

A lesson focused on reading comprehension and identifying key details from a news article about a manatee rescue.

A comprehensive introduction to Reed-Kellogg sentence diagramming, covering subjects, verbs, direct objects, and prepositional phrases through a structural engineering lens.

Students learn to identify the theme or main message of a story by analyzing character choices and outcomes, framed through a "Cinema" or "Movie Theatre" lens to help ELL students distinguish between topic and theme.

A lesson focused on decoding VCCV and VCV syllable patterns, along with common prefixes and suffixes, through an engaging reading passage and comprehension check.

A series of tiered morning work activities designed to review present tense action verbs, compound sentences, and complex sentences for 5th-grade ELL students.

Students investigate how precise word choices (diction) influence the mood and tone of a story through a detective-themed exploration of synonyms and shades of meaning.