An introductory lesson for 4th graders on 'Daisy Dawson is on Her Way', focusing on active listening and comprehension of the first two chapters through a video reading and guided discussion.
A spelling bridge program for rising fifth graders, reviewing essential third and fourth-grade spelling patterns. Focuses on inflected endings, syllable junctures, silent letters, and complex vowels through structured worksheets and hands-on sorting cards.
A comprehensive progress monitoring kit for English Language Learners (ELLs) across all four core language domains. Includes step-by-step teacher instructions, a printable class tracking matrix, a student self-monitoring journal, and quick formative assessment rubrics.
A highly scaffolded, visual, bilingual (English/Spanish) student self-monitoring journal page tailored for early language acquisition levels (L1-L2).
An 8-week reading comprehension curriculum designed for entering fifth graders, featuring high-interest adventure themes like wilderness survival, deep-sea exploration, cyber defense, and volcanology. It focuses on critical reading comprehension skills like inferences, cause and effect, summarizing, and context clues with high-contrast, large print student packets.
A creative lesson focused on providing elementary students with scaffolding tools, sentence starters, and structured frameworks for persuasive and expository writing.
Quick formative assessment prompts and rubrics across listening, speaking, reading, and writing domains to facilitate easy, real-time feedback.
The 'Stadium Readers Club' is a high-interest, sports-themed reading intervention program designed specifically for reluctant entering 5th graders. It integrates phonics, word study, and reading comprehension across a 6-week schedule, utilizing the child's passion for the New York Yankees, New York Knicks, and soccer.
A high-interest multi-day phonics lesson centered around an exciting NFL football championship game. Students practice identifying, decoding, and tracking words with consonant blends and digraphs through structured warm-ups, a targeted reading passage, and scaffolded comprehension activities.
A student-facing language learning self-assessment and goal-setting journal page to build student ownership and confidence.
A background lesson to help students understand attention-seeking behaviors and personality styles, specifically Histrionic Personality Disorder, to better analyze characters in The Westing Game.
A printable class-wide progress monitoring matrix to track ELL students' development across all four language domains over three assessment intervals.
