Exploring how bold words and glossaries work together to define technical vocabulary. Students act as lexicographers to build their own definitions.
This lesson focuses on analyzing how chapters, scenes, and stanzas provide the overall structure of a text. Students will compare the structural elements of stories, plays, and poems to understand how authors build their narratives.
A comprehensive STAAR preparation resource for Grades 3-4, featuring visually organized cheat sheets for Math and Reading Language Arts designed to boost student confidence and recall.
A Grade 4 Reading Language Arts lesson focused on TEKS 4.10, helping students analyze author's purpose and craft using the 'Author's Toolkit' theme. Includes explicit PIE instruction, mentor text analysis, and STAAR-formatted assessment.
A Grade 4 STAAR writing preparation lesson focused on revising and editing skills, featuring a medical 'Sentence Surgeons' theme to engage students in fixing common grammatical errors and improving text organization.
A lesson introducing various suffixes through the lens of women's lacrosse, featuring word analysis and a six-paragraph reading passage.
A collection of visual anchor charts and notebook inserts to help students master common spelling rules including the FLOSS rule and the C/K/CK spelling choice.
A lesson focused on comparing and contrasting two non-fiction texts about animal migration, designed with accessible reading levels for 5th-grade students.
A lesson exploring how authors use everyday objects to represent deeper abstract ideas, helping students decode layers of meaning in literature.
A lesson exploring the emotion of awe and descriptive language through the book 'Awe' by Chana Stiefel, designed for 3rd and 4th-grade students.
A lesson focused on teaching students how to write compelling book reviews by using specific transition phrases to connect their opinions with text-based evidence.