Students publish their stories with illustrations and share them in a special Author's Chair celebration.
An interactive lesson where students learn to use key subordinating conjunctions (because, when, if, although) to connect clauses, using a highly visual bridge-building theme suitable for smartboard delivery.
A sweet kindergarten unit focusing on trees and seasonal changes. Students read simple, rhythmic poems about apple trees and falling leaves, practice coloring, trace basic seasonal terms, and answer introductory comprehension questions.
An engaging science-integrated poetry unit for Grade 2. Students read sweet, rhythmic poems about bumblebees and butterflies, illustrating their important roles in pollination, identifying vocabulary, and demonstrating reading comprehension.
A beautiful thematic unit featuring sweet, engaging Spring poems. Students explore imagery, vocabulary, and seasonal shifts while practicing reading comprehension and creative expression.
A continuation of phonics exploration focusing on the '-ug' word family and the 'st-' consonant blend. Students practice decoding, visualizing, and writing through hands-on worksheets.
A classroom lesson focused on the '-at' and '-og' word families. Students read simple, rhythmic poems, highlight word family members, illustrate the scenes to show comprehension, and answer simple text-based questions.
A fun, adventure-themed lesson where early elementary students design custom reading passports, set interactive summer reading goals, explore new genres, and practice recommending books to their peers to build a summer reading community.
A whimsical first-grade ELA lesson teaching the power of silent 'e' through hands-on spelling wizard activities and guided practice.
A first-grade decoding lesson focused on reading and tracking simple sentences featuring vowel-consonant-e (silent e) words for fluency.
Students combine their cumulative learning of sensing verbs, prepositional phrases, and comparisons to co-construct and independently draft a descriptive paragraph about an outback landscape, utilizing a multi-tiered writing frame.
Students learn how prepositional phrases give information about 'where' and 'when' events occur, practicing adding them to simple sentences containing sensing verbs to build descriptive detail.
Students investigate sensing verbs related to the five senses, identifying how the author uses them to share how natural elements feel during drought, and brainstorming sensory details about the outback.
