A week-long exploration of fishing techniques, river ecosystems, and aquatic life. Designed for struggling readers, blending high-interest outdoor skills with 2nd-grade level literacy instruction.
A final assessment for E.B. White's 'Charlotte's Web' including a 25-question test and a corresponding answer key.
A final project where students curate a symbolic 'Memory Box' for Winnie Foster, exploring themes of immortality, friendship, and the circle of life through perspective writing and visual symbolism.
A collection of resources summarizing the poems from The Red Pencil, focusing on character development, cultural context, and the central conflict between tradition and education.
This lesson focuses on the bittersweet conclusion of Tuck Everlasting, guiding students through Winnie Foster's pivotal choice and the theme of the 'Wheel of Life.' Students will analyze how Winnie's decision to live a mortal life reflects the book's central message about the beauty of life's natural cycle.
A Stranger Things themed lesson focusing on complex sentence construction using subject, verb, and various predicate expanders (where, when, why).
A series of reading comprehension missions focused on soccer and the World Cup, helping students master context clues and inferencing.
A lesson exploring the step-by-step process of making ice cream, focusing on chronological text structure and reading comprehension for elementary students.
A lesson focused on identifying and explaining the theme of a literary passage using textual evidence. Students practice excavating deeper meanings from short narratives through collaborative or independent task card activities.
A hands-on literacy station focused on decoding and constructing CVC (short e, i) and CCVC (L-blends) words through interactive tasks.
An introductory lesson for K-2 students about the Indiana Young Hoosier Book Award, focusing on the voting process and the Picture Book category.