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 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.
Analyze the high-stakes climax of Tuck Everlasting, focusing on plot structure, character motives, and the building of tension during the jailbreak. Students will explore the moral complexities of Mae and Winnie's actions through comparative analysis and suspense tracking.
A comprehensive set of interactive games designed for K-3 students to master various reading genres through multiple play formats.
A step-by-step lesson teaching students how to restate a question in their written answers using the "Question Flippers" method: Trash, Toss, and Tweak.