This lesson introduces nine essential Greek myths through detailed summaries and visual storytelling, helping students identify key themes and narrative structures in classical mythology.
A cumulative review of all long and short vowel patterns (A, E, I, O, U) within a complex "System Sync" text reaching higher Lexile levels.
Covers short /u/ and /e/ versus their long VCe counterparts, incorporating advanced phoneme-grapheme mapping.
Explores short /o/ and long /o/ (VCe) patterns with a focus on multisyllabic word decoding and fluency.
Focuses on short /i/ and long /i/ (VCe) patterns, featuring encoding drills and a mission-based reading passage.
Focuses on discriminating between short /a/ (CVC) and long /a/ (VCe) patterns through phoneme-grapheme mapping and targeted decoding of an encrypted message text.
A comprehensive set of resources designed to prepare students for the IREAD assessment by providing reading strategies and anxiety-reduction techniques through a "Mission: IREAD" secret agent theme.
The final mission focuses on mastering punctuation 'portals' and launching the Narrative Rocket creative writing project.
Students master the mechanics of subjects and predicates to build stable 'sentence ships' and navigate through syntax space.
Explorers identify and categorize nouns, verbs, and adjectives to gather 'fuel' for their galactic journey.
A comprehensive lesson for middle school students on crafting powerful conclusion paragraphs for argumentative essays using the 'Restate, Review, Reveal' method.
A comprehensive middle school lesson focused on digital literacy, teaching students to identify bias, evaluate website credibility, and summarize information ethically through a detective-themed investigation.
A detective-themed review of nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. Students act as grammar sleuths to sort evidence and solve sentence-based case files.
In this lesson, students will practice synthesizing information from an informational text and a poem. They will learn to identify shared themes and contrasting perspectives to develop a comprehensive understanding of the aging process.
Focuses on constructing complete narrative paragraphs with a topic sentence, details, and a conclusion, followed by a rigorous 'inspection' for mechanics.
An advanced rhetorical analysis lesson for AP Language students focusing on the SOAPSTone method to deconstruct non-fiction texts and identify the speaker's line of reasoning.
Focuses on punctuation (commas, quotation marks), identifying the main idea, and finding evidence to support an author's claim.
A lesson focused on identifying, comparing, and contrasting first- and third-person points of view in literature. Students will analyze how the narrator's perspective influences the reader's experience.
A final assessment and synthesis where students independently analyze a text about honeybees to identify points and evidence.
Students analyze how an author supports multiple related points within a single text about sharks.
Students evaluate the strength of evidence provided by an author, distinguishing between strong facts and weak opinions in a text about penguins.
Students practice connecting specific pieces of evidence to the points they support using sea otters as a case study.
Students learn to identify the author's main point and the specific reasons provided as evidence using a text about elephant intelligence.
An engaging 40-minute lesson on diction analysis for 7th grade students, focusing on how word choice creates tone and mood using a 'Word Alchemy' theme.
A focused practice session on irregular past tense verbs featuring a time-travel story and visual flashcards with supported choices.