Students apply their detective skills to historical texts, focusing on chronological details and key events. Includes history passages, a summative quiz, and a teacher's answer key.
A high-energy, 15-minute small group lesson focused on mastering the 'Restate' and 'Answer' portions of the RACE strategy for constructed responses.
A fast-paced, 15-minute small group lesson focusing on TEKS 3.6(F). Students learn to combine text evidence with their own background knowledge to make logical inferences.
Students will explore the complex debate surrounding wolf reintroduction in national parks, analyzing two conflicting perspectives to understand how authors shape information and support their claims with evidence.
A comprehensive ELA lesson focused on identifying main ideas in space-themed informational texts, explaining scientific procedures, and summarizing fictional narratives about friendship.
Students learn the 'QAR' (Question Answer Relationship) strategy to find explicit evidence in science-themed expository texts. Includes instructional slides, a set of science passages, and a main idea graphic organizer.
A visual, tactile approach to sentence structure using color-coded "blocks" to represent parts of speech. Students learn to sculpt sentences from basic patterns to complex masterpieces, reducing cognitive load through visual patterns.
A hands-on grading lab where students evaluate five student-written argumentative essays on W.D. Wetherell's 'The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant,' using a standardized rubric to develop their own writing and analysis skills.
A focused lesson on mastering plural possessive nouns through a detective-themed investigation. Students will learn the rules for placing apostrophes with regular and irregular plural nouns.
A Language Dive lesson for 3rd Grade focusing on a complex sentence from Peter Pan to analyze character traits and comparisons using "as...as". This guide is designed for new teachers to facilitate a 15-20 minute deep dive into language structure and meaning.
A high-energy, game-based lesson designed to reinforce RI.9 standards. Students engage in a multi-modal 'Double Take' challenge involving a board game, bingo, and a scavenger hunt to analyze how different authors present the same non-fiction topics.
A comprehensive guide and tracking system for implementing a UFLI-aligned kindergarten encoding goal throughout the academic year.
A 30-minute phonics focused lesson helping 1st graders distinguish between the /ch/ and /sh/ digraphs through sorting and reading.
A set of 20 short articles (two for each of the 10 debate topics) to provide students with evidence for their classroom arguments.
A comprehensive lesson focusing on the mechanics of evidence integration, specifically targeting plagiarism avoidance, evidence selection, and the use of signal phrases.
A high-energy, tropical-themed review of main idea and supporting details, designed for the day before spring break. Students complete an 'Island Escape' challenge to 'earn' their break.