Students practice connecting specific pieces of evidence to the points they support using sea otters as a case study.
A cumulative review of all long and short vowel patterns (A, E, I, O, U) within a complex "System Sync" text reaching higher Lexile levels.
Covers short /u/ and /e/ versus their long VCe counterparts, incorporating advanced phoneme-grapheme mapping.
Explores short /o/ and long /o/ (VCe) patterns with a focus on multisyllabic word decoding and fluency.
Focuses on short /i/ and long /i/ (VCe) patterns, featuring encoding drills and a mission-based reading passage.
Focuses on discriminating between short /a/ (CVC) and long /a/ (VCe) patterns through phoneme-grapheme mapping and targeted decoding of an encrypted message text.
A comprehensive set of resources designed to prepare students for the IREAD assessment by providing reading strategies and anxiety-reduction techniques through a "Mission: IREAD" secret agent theme.
The final mission focuses on mastering punctuation 'portals' and launching the Narrative Rocket creative writing project.
Students master the mechanics of subjects and predicates to build stable 'sentence ships' and navigate through syntax space.
Explorers identify and categorize nouns, verbs, and adjectives to gather 'fuel' for their galactic journey.
A detective-themed review of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Students act as grammar sleuths to sort evidence and solve sentence-based case files.
Focuses on constructing complete narrative paragraphs with a topic sentence, details, and a conclusion, followed by a rigorous 'inspection' for mechanics.
A lesson focused on identifying, comparing, and contrasting first- and third-person points of view in literature. Students will analyze how the narrator's perspective influences the reader's experience.
A final assessment and synthesis where students independently analyze a text about honeybees to identify points and evidence.
Students analyze how an author supports multiple related points within a single text about sharks.
Students evaluate the strength of evidence provided by an author, distinguishing between strong facts and weak opinions in a text about penguins.
Students learn to identify the author's main point and the specific reasons provided as evidence using a text about elephant intelligence.
