A creative fiction writing lesson centered around spring break themes, featuring imaginative prompts and planning tools to help students craft original stories.

Covers final y as a vowel, plural endings with -ies, common prefixes (re-, un-, dis-, mis-), and a comprehensive review of patterns from Sorts 13-50.

Focuses on complex consonant clusters including triple blends (scr, str, spr, thr, shr, squ), silent consonants (kn, wr, gn), and variations of hard/soft c and g. Students will practice these intricate spelling patterns through context.

This lesson explores diphthongs and ambiguous vowel patterns including oi, oy, oo, aw, au, wa, al, and ou/ow. Students will practice identifying these sounds through context and word searches.

A comprehensive spelling assessment tool designed to identify specific orthographic strengths and weaknesses across five key phonics and spelling patterns.

Investigation into r-controlled vowel patterns including ar, are, air, er, ear, eer, ir, ire, ier, or, ore, oar, and ur patterns.

A vocabulary and word study lesson focused on suffixes and base words, themed around the Great Migration in the Serengeti. Students explore word structures while learning about one of nature's most incredible journeys.

A comprehensive progress monitoring collection featuring 5 distinct word sets (75 words total) for tracking mastery of vowel teams and diphthongs. Each set includes a student reading list and a multi-trial teacher tracking sheet.

A progress monitoring tool designed to assess a student's ability to decode words with initial and final s-blends, r-blends, and l-blends. This lesson includes a student reading list and a teacher scoring checklist.

Review of CVVC patterns and introduction to open syllables with long a, o, u, and i patterns across Sorts 18-24.

Foundational practice for Sorts 13-17, focusing on short and long vowel patterns including CVCe and CVVC for a, o, u, and e.

A comprehensive spelling packet focused on R-controlled vowels (ar, er, ir, or, ur) with a Forest Ranger theme. Includes practice, games, and assessments.

A reading assessment designed for a 5th grade student reading at a 3rd grade level, focusing on fluency and comprehension through an engaging mountain-themed mystery.

A comprehensive guide to mastering evidence-based writing and constructed responses for the Arkansas ATLAS assessment, focusing on the Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) framework.

A comprehensive Grade 3 ELA test preparation lesson specifically designed for the Arkansas ATLAS assessment, focusing on literary/informational reading, vocabulary, and digital test-taking strategies.

Students learn to use examples and general inference to figure out the meaning of unknown words in 3rd-4th grade level texts.

A lesson focused on identifying and analyzing cause-and-effect relationships in non-fiction texts through a detective-themed investigation. Students will explore environmental and natural phenomena to understand how specific actions or events lead to significant outcomes.

Students become 'Sentence Architects' by using color-coded building blocks to construct complex sentences. This hands-on lesson focuses on the structural relationship between subjects, verbs, and descriptive phrases for K-3 learners.

A primary-level lesson focused on identifying and understanding compound words through a nature-themed scouting activity.

A set of resources focused on unique musical instruments, providing informational articles and prompts for students to practice using text evidence in their writing.

A 15-minute intensive reteach focused on identifying journalism with delayed ledes, building on the text 'Planes on the Brain'. Students learn to distinguish between narrative hooks and the informational core of news articles.

A mystery set in a natural history museum where a rare fossil map goes missing, with tiered assignments for different grade levels.

A comprehensive lesson focused on the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, targeting reading comprehension through asking and answering questions and building vocabulary through context clues.

A bakery-themed mystery where a baker's important key goes missing, with tiered assignments for different grade levels.

A lesson focused on the dual vowel sounds of the letter Y, teaching students to identify and mark words where Y sounds like /ī/ (long i) and /ē/ (long e).

A focused lesson on the dual roles of 'y' as a vowel in one-syllable and two-syllable words, featuring dictation practice and word marking.

An art-themed mystery where a painter's favorite purple brush goes missing, featuring tiered assignments for different grade levels.

A science-fiction mystery where a robot's battery charger goes missing on a space station, with assignments focusing on logical deduction.