A lesson designed to help students identify 'Right There' questions in text and use specific marking strategies (starring, underlining, and highlighting) to locate evidence directly within the passage.

A strategy-focused lesson teaching students three specific ways to collect text evidence (notetaking, annotating, and underlining) to improve performance on standardized tests, including a practice passage about monarch butterflies.

A high-flying exploration of kites that integrates long 'i' phonics patterns and multisyllabic decoding strategies for upper elementary and middle school students.

A comprehensive review of the RACE writing strategy, focusing on analyzing author's purpose and figurative language through guided instruction and highly-scaffolded practice.

An investigation into the Boston Tea Party, focusing on identifying main ideas and evidence within primary and secondary accounts of the 1773 protest.

A station-rotation lesson themed around animal crackers that integrates zoology and conservation vocabulary through reading, writing, speaking, and a STEM challenge. Designed for 6th-grade students to practice multimodal literacy skills while exploring animal ethics and habitat preservation.

This lesson explores the historical layers of the English language, focusing on how invasions by the Celts, Vikings, and French shaped the vocabulary and grammar we use today. Students will trace the timeline from Old English to the Norman Conquest.

A lesson focused on identifying claims and supporting evidence within short persuasive paragraphs using a detective-themed approach. Students learn to distinguish between what an author wants them to believe (claim) and why they should believe it (evidence).

A complete lesson covering similes, metaphors, idioms, personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, alliteration, oxymoron, and symbolism through direct instruction and guided practice.

A lesson focused on building semantic networks by exploring Latin roots in technology and Greek roots in science, helping students decode modern terminology.

A vocabulary lesson focusing on eight high-level words aligned with the school's core values: Challenge, Honor, Adapt, Understand, and Grow. Students engage with definitions, synonyms, and context clues.

A set of literacy stations designed to build comprehension, argumentative analysis, and theme identification skills through six diverse reading passages.