Cipher Breakers

A Tier 2 reading comprehension intervention sequence designed for sixth-grade students. This three-session program utilizes a structured, scaffolded approach to help students identify key details, filter out distracting information, and craft precise main idea summaries.

A systematic decoding mini-lesson designed for 6th-grade special education reading, focusing on open and closed multi-syllable rules to determine vowel sounds. Includes a comprehensive Teacher Guide, visual Guided Notes, and a structured Independent Practice Sheet.

An engaging student-facing printable tabletop game board where students roll, navigate a detective track, and decode multi-syllable words using open and closed syllable rules to reach the finish line.

A spy-themed 4-day parts of speech review sequence for 6th and 7th graders. Students become secret agents in the 'Syntax Syndicate', cracking codes and completing missions to master nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections, culminating in a collaborative classroom escape room.

An essential set of academic vocabulary resources featuring high-frequency Tier 2 words, designed to equip students with the cognitive verbs needed for critical thinking, analysis, and discussion.

A student-facing sorting worksheet where students classify multi-syllabic words into categories based on whether their first syllable is open or closed, featuring high-contrast visual organizers.

A foundational sequence introducing students to the ChromeVox screen reader on Chromebooks. Students learn activation, voice personalization, linear text navigation, and structural element navigation to independently explore web content.

A creative writing lesson where students draft a dramatic 10-sentence soccer story about a rivalry between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, applying literary devices like alliteration, similes, and dialogue.

A structured independent practice sheet for students to apply open and closed syllable rules to multisyllabic words, with an illustrative example and clear visual work boxes.

A comprehensive literary research unit designed to guide students through a structural and character analysis of classic and regional fairy tales. Students assume the role of folklore investigators, tracking standard tropes, character motivations, helper archetypes, and plot designs, culminating in an analytical presentation.

Session 3 of the intervention focusing on combining key details to draft a clear, one-sentence main idea summary ('the headline') without copying text word-for-word.

A highly visual, structured guided notes handout for students to complete during the direct instruction phase, featuring clear open and closed door visual anchors and guided fill-in-the-blank rules.