Contraction Surgery

A medical-themed ELA lesson where 2nd grade students perform 'surgery' on word pairs to create contractions, using a heavy-weight metaphor from a video to understand how apostrophes replace missing letters.

Contraction Surgery

Sound Shifters Phonics

A comprehensive, detective-themed 2-day phonics unit for 4th graders to master the hard and soft sounds of 'c' and 'g' using structured inquiry, visual anchor charts, and scaffolded practice worksheets.

Lenny

Name Power

A Kindergarten-adapted read-aloud lesson for Chrysanthemum. It incorporates echo reading fluency practice, deep vocabulary instruction, character change mapping, and scaffolded checks for understanding.

James Dill

Name Power Exit Ticket

A Kindergarten-friendly, multiple-choice exit ticket assessing Chrysanthemum's character change and her feelings about her name. Includes a dedicated multiple-choice question targeting the IEP student's main idea goal.

James Dill

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

Lenny Lesson Architect

Guides and structures for teachers to design and modify reading comprehension lessons with Lenny. Includes both visual flowcharts and classic academic table formats.

James Dill

Name Power Character Organizer

A student-facing graphic organizer for Kindergarteners to map Chrysanthemum's character change. It features simple emoji selection choices (happy, humiliated, blooming) and large drawing panels for the story's beginning, middle, and end.

James Dill

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

Case of the Soft G

Students investigate the letter 'g', discovering when it makes its hard /g/ sound versus its soft /j/ sound, followed by interactive detective decoding and contextual word-sorting practice.

Lenny

Name Power Vocabulary Slides

A highly visual, Kindergarten-adapted slide deck detailing the three core vocabulary words (Humiliated, Dreadful, Jealous) with definitions, emojis, illustrations, and student discussion prompts. Also features a dedicated interactive slide for echo reading fluency practice.

James Dill

Literacy Essentials

A 3-week foundational reading and vocabulary unit for 7th-grade intervention. Students master dictionary reference tools, high-leverage affixes, and root words while developing evidence-based reading analysis skills.

knessa

Case of the Soft C

Students investigate the letter 'c', discovering the rule for when it makes its hard /k/ sound versus its soft /s/ sound, followed by interactive detective practice and word-sorting activities.

Lenny

Name Power Lesson Guide

An instructional guide for the teacher detailing the Kindergarten-adapted Chrysanthemum read-aloud. It features step-by-step echo reading fluency protocols, interactive reading stopping points with 4 check-for-understanding questions, and implementation steps for the character change organizer.

Contraction Surgery