A hands-on, creative crafting lesson inspired by 'The Day the Crayons Came Home.' Students explore social-emotional feelings and book comprehension by creating custom crayon postcards and matching lost crayons to their travels.
A masterclass sequence on word study, morphology, and vocabulary acquisition. This unit teaches students to deconstruct complex English words using structural analysis of roots and affixes.
A comprehensive 90+ minute lesson exploring high-frequency prefixes, suffixes, and their spelling rules of thumb. Students learn grammatical mechanics, practice via a multi-exercise workbook (including a social media dialogue analysis), and build a physical 'Word Tree' classroom anchor chart.
A 2-page print-ready kit for building the classroom 'Word Tree' anchor chart. Page 1 provides step-by-step teacher assembly instructions and group challenges, while Page 2 contains printable leaf and flower templates for students to complete and attach.
A comprehensive sequence of condensed lessons for Fundations Level 2, focusing on double vowel syllables, diphthongs, and high-frequency heart words across units 13, 14, 15, and 16.
A structured phonics lesson aligned with Wilson Step 6.3, focusing on suffixes added to unchanging base words. Features high-repetition syllable division, blending grids, and a reading passage about country musicians Luke Combs and Zach Bryan with syllable-segmented text and WH-comprehension questions.
An interactive student activity worksheet split into 4 pages containing 5 distinct scaffolded morphology exercises. It starts with root identification, progresses to suffix spelling formulas, continues with reading analysis, and concludes with a real-world social media crisis dialogue choosing exercise.
A comprehensive summer spelling curriculum for rising 5th graders, focusing on advanced syllable division, phonetic spelling rules, affixes, and mixed review, complete with student progress trackers.
A reading comprehension lesson for 3rd grade. Students read three short 3-paragraph narrative stories and answer literal questions (who, what, when, where, why, how) for each to build basic text-dependent comprehension skills.
A 2-page student reference cheat sheet. Page 1 displays the golden spelling rules of thumb with clear formulas, while Page 2 lists the most frequent prefixes and suffixes with their core meanings and key examples.
A comprehensive year-long tier 2 vocabulary curriculum designed for struggling readers in grades 3-6. Utilizing an architectural theme, this curriculum guides students in building words using prefixes, suffixes, synonyms, and antonyms through explicit instruction, daily oral practice, and multisensory graphic organizers.
A fun and engaging name-hunting lesson where students become 'Name Detectives', developing visual scanning, word recognition, and pattern matching skills using a grid-based search puzzle.
A 7-slide visual presentation designed to guide teachers and students through prefixes, suffixes, spelling rules of thumb, and special phonological adjustments. Built with custom botanical illustrations and high-readability slides.
