An interactive ELA lesson focused on collaborative discussion and active listening, aligned with MN State Standard 4.3.1.2. Students learn to build on others' ideas and ask clarifying questions using a fun chemistry lab theme.
A spelling bridge program for rising fifth graders, reviewing essential third and fourth-grade spelling patterns. Focuses on inflected endings, syllable junctures, silent letters, and complex vowels through structured worksheets and hands-on sorting cards.
An interactive vocabulary lesson targeting the words jersey, thrilled, blazing, pointless, and mythology through word puzzles, creative riddles, and cooperative learning games.
A complete 1-page teacher reference guide containing answer keys, riddle decoders, and lesson pacing tips for the Vocab Quest.
An 8-week reading comprehension curriculum designed for entering fifth graders, featuring high-interest adventure themes like wilderness survival, deep-sea exploration, cyber defense, and volcanology. It focuses on critical reading comprehension skills like inferences, cause and effect, summarizing, and context clues with high-contrast, large print student packets.
An energetic, basketball-themed reading and phonics lesson focusing on identifying, reading, and spelling words with initial and final consonant blends. Students will build fluency and decoding skills through sports-related stories.
A 2-page engaging student activity workbook for vocabulary practice. Features creative riddles, sentence completion challenges, and collaborative game scorecards.
The 'Stadium Readers Club' is a high-interest, sports-themed reading intervention program designed specifically for reluctant entering 5th graders. It integrates phonics, word study, and reading comprehension across a 6-week schedule, utilizing the child's passion for the New York Yankees, New York Knicks, and soccer.
A 90-minute professional development workshop designed for Pre-K to Grade 4 school administrators. This session covers the foundational literacy frameworks of the American Reading Company (ARC)—including IRLA, ENIL, and the 100 Book Challenge—with a heavy emphasis on multi-tiered instructional coaching, scaffolded practices for Special Education and English Language Learners, and administrative look-fors.
A comprehensive teacher answer key and grading guide for 'The Championship Shot' blends worksheet. Includes sorted lists of initial and final blends.
A dynamic grammar and writing lesson where students stretch simple sentences into rich, complex ones using adverbs, prepositional phrases, and subordinating clauses.
A basketball-themed reading passage ('The Fast Break') followed by a blend identification and spelling completion worksheet. Packed with initial and final consonant blends.
