Word Warriors

An intensive phonics intervention sequence designed for older struggling readers and English learners. Provides age-appropriate, highly scaffolded decoding practice for long and short vowels across middle school and young adult levels.

Week 3 of the Sunrise Quests ELA morning-work program. Focuses on soft c and soft g, the Talkative Tortoise fable, the -ice word family, prefix dis- and suffix -less, and an Inuit Crow Light myth.

Week 3 Quiz: A 10-question printable ELA assessment matching Indiana standards. Covers soft c and soft g spelling, prefix dis- and suffix -less, the -ice word family, contractions (aren't, wasn't, weren't), vocabulary, and reading comprehension fables and legends. Features a 2-column clean layout with bold, black write-in lines and mini-passages for reference.

An engaging, high-impact 4-week literacy skills program for young learners. Features highly visual, fun printable worksheets focusing on beginning letter sounds, CVC phonics blending, sight word reading, and short stories.

An interactive, detective-themed ELA lesson designed for a 35-40 minute session. Students analyze short mixed-genre passages (informational, persuasive, and narrative) to decode the author's primary purpose.

Week 2 Quiz: A 10-question printable ELA assessment matching Indiana standards. Covers silent letter digraphs (kn, wr, gn), drop-e spelling rules, contractions (they've, I'd, shouldn't), vocabulary, and reading comprehension of West African and Nez Perce folktales. Features a 2-column clean layout with bold, black write-in lines and mini-passages for reference.

An engaging, high-impact 4-week literacy skills program for young learners. Features highly visual, fun printable worksheets focusing on beginning letter sounds, CVC phonics blending, sight word reading, and short stories.

An introductory 7th-grade ELA lesson that frames author's purpose analysis as literary forensic science. Students analyze word choice, tone, and text structure as clues to decode why an author wrote a text.

A 4-day instructional sequence on Active Reading, analyzing important details, conflict, and finding textual evidence.

An intensive phonics lesson focusing on decoding and spelling consonant blends and digraphs (ch, sh, th, wh, ph). Tailored for middle schoolers and older struggling readers with functional, age-appropriate worksheets.

A journalism-themed informational text unit where 6th-grade students act as investigative reporters to master identifying main ideas, analyzing key supporting details, and writing objective summaries.

A rigorous and highly scaffolded 8th-grade lesson focusing on identifying, ranking, and justifying the strongest textual evidence to support character and thematic claims in literature.