Focuses on Latin roots related to hands (man), writing (scrib), belief (cred), and making (fac), as well as leading (duct), following (sequ), and turning (vert).
A creative fiction writing lesson centered around spring break themes, featuring imaginative prompts and planning tools to help students craft original stories.
A comprehensive spelling assessment tool designed to identify specific orthographic strengths and weaknesses across five key phonics and spelling patterns.
A vocabulary and word study lesson focused on suffixes and base words, themed around the Great Migration in the Serengeti. Students explore word structures while learning about one of nature's most incredible journeys.
A comprehensive lesson teaching students to identify media bias in newspaper articles using specific techniques like headline framing, sensationalism, and omission. Students take on the role of 'Headline Hackers' to critique and edit biased news.
Unit 9 Lesson 2 Do Now focusing on focused structure in a solar eclipse passage and editing dialogue punctuation and complex sentences in a formal letter.
Unit 9 Lesson 1 Do Now focusing on developing engaging ideas in a baking narrative and editing capitalization and spelling for a Texas state parks report.
Unit 8 Lesson 15 Do Now focusing on improving sentence variety in a science fair passage and editing adjectives and prepositions in a mountain climbing journal.
Unit 8 Lesson 14 Do Now focusing on passage organization for a sea turtle conservation story and editing compound sentences and pronouns in a school play description.
Unit 8 Lesson 13 Do Now focusing on adding details to a passage about a community garden and editing irregular verbs in a museum trip narrative.
Focuses on roots related to life (bio), death (mort), origin (gen), joining (junct), following (sec/sect), and law (jud, leg).
Covers Latin roots related to life and death, connection, law, and books. Includes roots like gen, mort, bio, ven, junct, spir, sec, jud, leg, mod, and biblio.
The final sorts (38-56) covering advanced spelling patterns including silent consonants, prefixes, suffixes, and geography vocabulary.