A collection of professional planning resources and student assessments for Kindergarten Foundational Skills Unit 1, focusing on phonological awareness, pre-writing strokes, and spatial directionality.
A series of engaging daily opinion writing prompts for 3rd graders, focused on forming strong opinions with supporting reasons and examples using the OREO method.
A comprehensive introduction to the core elements of literature—plot, character, setting, and theme—using an architectural blueprint metaphor to help students visualize story structure.
A foundational lesson on identifying and interpreting common idioms using context clues, specifically designed with decodable text for struggling readers.
A second-grade focused lesson on nouns, verbs, and adjectives set in a vibrant spring garden. Students will explore descriptive language while filling in a garden-themed story.
A fun, spring-themed lesson focused on identifying and using nouns, verbs, and adjectives through a baby animal farm story. Students will practice parts of speech while creating their own silly farm adventure.
A comprehensive lesson on the diphthongs 'ou' and 'ow', using a 'Mountain Owls and Ground Hounds' theme to engage students in sorting, decoding, and reading comprehension.
The introductory set of materials focused on identifying main ideas and supporting them with text evidence through a structured weekly routine.
A comprehensive phonics lesson focusing on long vowel teams (ai, ay, ee, ea) following LETRS-aligned instructional practices, including phoneme-grapheme mapping and decodable reading.
A lesson covering chapters 8-14 of Hatchet, focusing on survival strategies, character growth, and figurative language.
A workshop-themed phonics lesson focusing on identifying and using the 'glued' or 'welded' sounds -am, -an, and -all.
A foundational phonics lesson focusing on identifying and using the digraphs sh, th, wh, ch, and ck through visual association and word completion.
A comprehensive lesson on using apostrophes to show possession for singular and irregular plural nouns, themed as a detective investigation. Students will identify owners and objects to correctly apply the 's rule.
A high-intensity reading intervention lesson for first graders focusing on transitioning from choppy onset-rime blending to smooth CVC word blending using a playground slide metaphor.
A lesson focused on analyzing Chapter 2 of Treasure Island, including character tracking and chronological event mapping.
A foundational lesson introducing kindergarteners to the basic personal subject pronouns I, you, he, she, and it through visual matching and identification.
A foundational literacy lesson focusing on reading and writing CVC words with the short 'u' vowel sound through engaging bug-themed activities.
A follow-up lesson to 'Social Commentary Background Notes' where students analyze examples of social commentary and brainstorm their own creative messages using rhetorical appeals.
A vocabulary-focused lesson using terms from the 6th Grade EOG ELA curriculum to reinforce definitions and term recognition.
A collection of resources to help teachers announce and manage their class's visit to the Scholastic Book Fair.
A comprehensive lesson on active reading strategies, focusing on a three-phase annotation system (Pre-Reading, During Reading, and Post Reading) to improve comprehension and critical thinking for students in grades 3-5.
A quick, high-energy 1:1 intervention designed to re-teach the letter Y sound and action. This lesson focuses on phonetic awareness and basic CVC word construction.