A comprehensive reading comprehension lesson focusing on RI.1, RI.2, RI.3, and RI.4 standards through the lenses of Animal Adaptations and the Three Branches of Government.
A phonics-focused lesson reviewing the vowel teams ea, ew, aw, ou, al, and au through an engaging safari-themed adventure. Students will practice identifying, sorting, and using these sounds in context.
A comprehensive lesson for 3rd and 4th graders on the USE strategy (Understand, Slash, Evidence) to improve multiple-choice accuracy using fiction and science texts.
A culminating experience where students review the four text types and create their own 'Meaning Maker Masterpiece' by writing a short piece using specific structural and figurative tools.
Focused on opinion texts, this lesson teaches students to identify an author's point of view and the reasons provided to support it, while exploring persuasive word choices.
Focused on poetry, this lesson explores how stanzas and rhyme create rhythm and how metaphors and sensory words build vivid imagery for the reader.
A decodable reading lesson centered on a story about getting lost at an amusement park, focusing on reading comprehension and safety rules.
A comprehensive lesson for 2nd and 3rd graders on using the present progressive tense. Students will learn the formula for adding -ing to verbs and use helping verbs to describe actions happening right now through a photography-themed exploration.
A lesson focused on morphology where students deconstruct words into prefixes, bases, and suffixes to determine their meanings using a word bank formula.
A Grade 4 literacy lesson focusing on the structural analysis of words with common prefixes: re-, mis-, dis-, and un-. Includes a multi-page reading passage and identification activities.
A week of targeted CVC practice covering blending, initial and final consonant changes, and automaticity.
A comprehensive 15-page reading and grammar review packet for 2nd-grade students. This neutral resource covers nouns (common/proper), verbs, adjectives, adverbs, synonyms, antonyms, contractions, reading comprehension across 6 passages, and opinion writing.
A series of decodable sentences and activities focusing on closed syllables, VCe patterns, r-controlled vowels, and specific glue sounds (ost, ild, ank, unk). Students will practice blending and reading these patterns in context.
A phonics-focused lesson for second graders centered on gymnastics, targeting short vowels, CVCe patterns, r-controlled vowels, and common contractions.
A vibrant, garden-themed set of resources to help early learners distinguish between vowels and consonants. Includes a classroom poster and individual sorting cards for hands-on practice.
A set of three weekly progress monitoring probes for 2nd-grade literal comprehension, featuring both fiction and informational texts formatted as 'Case Files'.