A lesson focused on building comparison and contrast skills by analyzing two popular video games, Roblox and Minecraft, using a Venn diagram.

A beginner's look at space through storytelling and comprehension, focusing on identifying key details and themes in a fictional text.

A reading comprehension lesson focused on a fictional story about forest animals sharing, designed for early 3rd-grade readers.

Una lección enfocada en desarrollar habilidades para la Respuesta Escrita Larga (ECR) en español, centrada en el género argumentativo para la prueba STAAR. Incluye un pasaje de lectura, un organizador gráfico de planificación y una guía de calificación detallada.

A quick, engaging lesson focused on decoding and using multisyllabic words through a detective-themed activity.

A collection of three thematic reading passages for 3rd-grade students, focusing on animals, friendship, and community helpers. Each story includes comprehension questions targeting sequencing and identifying the main idea.

A 20-minute mini-lesson introducing five key non-fiction text structures: description, chronology, comparison, cause/effect, and problem/solution. This lesson uses Revolutionary War examples to help students identify how authors organize information.

A phonics-focused spelling activity using Elkonin boxes to help students segment sounds and build words with specific vowel patterns. Students use provided letters to construct words like child, find, and cold.

A high-intensity 45-minute lesson designed to prepare 3rd-grade students for the NC EOG Reading test by focusing on evidence-based comprehension strategies for both fiction and nonfiction texts.

Students use evidence from both texts to compare and contrast the impact of historical and everyday heroes, meeting RI.9 standards.

Students read about a modern-day local hero, identifying main ideas and using diagrams and labels to understand how everyday people make a difference.

Students explore the life of Rosa Parks, focusing on identifying key details and navigating complex text features like maps and timelines.

Synthesis activity where students use a collection of details to identify the main idea and create their own 'Big Picture' summary.

Using the 5 Ws (Who, What, Where, When, Why) to dissect short non-fiction texts and identify the central message.

Hands-on sorting activity where students categorize 'Supporting Details' and match them to the correct 'Main Idea' umbrella.

Introduction to the 'Main Idea Umbrella' visual and the 5 Ws strategy using a single high-interest non-fiction paragraph.

A comprehensive nonfiction reading experience about the history, sports, and traditions of the Winter Olympics, designed to help students identify main ideas and supporting details.

The introductory lesson of the Reading Heights unit, focusing on basic CVC decoding and kindergarten/early 1st-grade high-frequency sight words through engaging balloon-themed activities.

The challenge stage of the unit, targeting multi-syllabic words, 3rd-grade sight words, and Lexile 740+ vocabulary to prepare students for high-level reading.

Introduces vowel teams and 2nd-grade high-frequency words, emphasizing fluency and automaticity in decoding mid-level texts.

Focuses on initial blends, digraphs, and 1st-grade sight words, helping students navigate more complex word structures as they 'climb' higher in their reading journey.

A fun, balloon-themed assessment tool for K-3 students to track phonics, sight words, and high-level decoding skills. Includes a student-facing reading board and a 4-student master score tracker.

A comprehensive 3rd-grade lesson focusing on metacognitive strategies to deepen comprehension of fiction. Students use listening, speaking, reading, and writing to explore multiple texts through the lens of 'thinking about thinking'.