A comprehensive small-group lesson focused on the foundational skills of retelling and paraphrasing using short fiction. Students use blueprint-themed tools to identify story structure and practice restating ideas in their own words.

A comprehensive 2nd-grade literacy practice set focused on phonics (beginning, middle, and ending sounds), grammar (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs), and reading comprehension. Designed with a fun "Code Breaker" detective theme to engage students in essential IRead skills.

A comprehensive spelling unit focused on high-frequency and thematic vocabulary related to American frontier history, featuring phonetic spelling challenges.

A collection of reflective and creative activities for Memorial Day, including a poppy craft writing activity, a gratitude letter template, and acrostic poems to honor fallen heroes.

Students learn to navigate story structure by becoming 'Plot Pilots,' guiding their narratives through takeoff, cruising, and landing. This lesson covers the essential elements of beginning, middle, and end using an engaging aviation metaphor.

Students work in small groups to rehearse and perform mystery plays, analyzing their specific plot structures and reflecting on social-emotional themes.

Students learn the fundamental components of a play script and use a model play to identify setting, characters, and plot structure.

A lesson focused on using the present progressive tense to describe actions happening in the moment, themed around capturing live action with a camera.

A lesson designed to help students analyze and sequence fairy tales, focusing on identifying the conflict, resolution, and underlying theme through structured graphic organizers.

A collection of versatile graphic organizers designed to help students analyze fiction and nonfiction picture books. Each organizer focuses on a specific reading skill, providing a structured framework for student response.

A simplified introduction to the story of Prince Hamlet, focusing on themes of family, mystery, and making difficult choices, adapted for a 2nd grade audience.

An introductory lesson exploring who William Shakespeare was and diving into three of his famous tales: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, and Macbeth, adapted for young learners.

Focused on informational texts, this lesson explores how paragraphs organize facts and how alliteration, personification, and hyperbole can make non-fiction more engaging.

Focused on narrative texts, this lesson teaches students how paragraphs build a story's sequence and how similes, idioms, and onomatopoeia create vivid mental images.

A toolkit of success criteria and structured practice materials for IMSE Orton-Gillingham dictation routines, focusing on word mapping and sentence conventions.

A foundational phonics lesson focusing on identifying, reading, and writing words with initial and final blends using short vowels. Students will 'build' words and practice reading them in context through a construction-themed series of activities.

A comprehensive lesson on subject-verb agreement featuring simple sentences and compound sentences using 'and' and 'but'. Includes instructional slides, a practice worksheet, and an answer key.

A collection of organized, visually-supported phonics labels designed for classroom organization and student reference. These labels cover core literacy concepts from short vowels to diphthongs.

A lesson on identifying and forming plural nouns. Students learn the standard rules for regular plurals (-s, -es, -ies, -ves) and investigate 'rule-breaking' irregular nouns like mice, children, and people.

Students explore the benefits of healthy eating and practice identifying the main idea and author's purpose in informational texts.

Students learn about the diverse life in the rainforest while practicing main idea and author's purpose skills.

Students explore the roles of various community helpers and practice identifying the main idea and author's purpose in a reading passage.

A deep dive into informational text features and writing, focusing on factual reporting and urban environment vocabulary.