Clue Detectives

A 4-part mini-unit sequence guiding 8th-grade multilingual learners through similes and metaphors in The Outsiders. Designed with WIDA Level 2 reading/writing and Level 3 speaking/listening scaffolds for students with developing literacy.

A targeted progress monitoring toolkit designed to assess early reading and decoding fluency with short vowels and digraphs. Includes an accessible, large-print student reading sheet alongside an in-depth teacher diagnostic scoring sheet for tracking phoneme mastery.

A single-page reading comprehension tracking document for 4th grade winter benchmark. Features weekly tracking for passage retelling (scored 0-6 with rubric criteria) and comprehension questions (scored 0-10 with percentage benchmarks), styled with the winter mission aesthetic.

A five-day integrated reading and morphology sequence combining CKLA Unit 2 comprehension texts with UFLI systematic morphology routines. Students master prefixes un-, re-, dis- and suffixes -ful and -less to unlock complex vocabulary.

A phonics and orthography lesson focused on VCe (Magic E) patterns, multi-syllable division, encoding single and multi-syllable words, and Grade 3 reading fluency with cold and hot read tracking.

A teacher-facing progress monitoring scoring log for assessing 10 CVC and digraph words. Includes student name and date fields at the top, phoneme-by-phoneme tracking rows, error transcription areas, and a comprehensive scoring summary with a total word count at the bottom.

A 3-part second-grade phonics sequence reviewing consonant digraphs (sh, ch, th, wh, ck) integrated with short-vowel CVC words. Students progress from initial digraphs to final digraphs and finish with cumulative CVC-to-digraph contrast and decodable fluency.

A 50-board Boggle word-building curriculum designed for struggling 3rd graders, organized into five sequential 10-board volumes with two boards per printable sheet and a 10-word target.

A clean, large-print student reading sheet containing 10 spaced-out short vowel and digraph words. Features high-contrast cards, numbered badges, and finger-point sound guides designed for early readers during oral progress monitoring.

A comprehensive 1920s literature sequence for Grade 11 ELA focusing on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Spanning 70-minute high school blocks aligned with PA Core Standards, the unit guides students through wealth, the American Dream, appearance versus reality in Chapter 3, and Gatsby's complex motivations.

A targeted fifth-grade reading intervention lesson that trains diverse learners to crack open complex informational texts. Students use tactile color-coded passage strips and scaffolded sentence stems to systematically separate central ideas from supporting text evidence.

An engaging 5-slide presentation for Lesson 2 with the modeling slide restored to its original clear examples (shape, concrete, incubate) alongside syllable division and oral fluency tracking.