A phonics center activity where students match initial letters with corresponding pictures and words to build early literacy and phonemic awareness.
A comprehensive UKG phonics sequence for 5-6 year olds, guiding them from basic CVC blending to consonant blends, digraphs, and simple sentence reading.
A Kindergarten-adapted read-aloud lesson for Chrysanthemum. It incorporates echo reading fluency practice, deep vocabulary instruction, character change mapping, and scaffolded checks for understanding.
A Kindergarten-friendly, multiple-choice exit ticket assessing Chrysanthemum's character change and her feelings about her name. Includes a dedicated multiple-choice question targeting the IEP student's main idea goal.
A comprehensive vocabulary mastery sequence designed to help English learners and early readers build a core foundation of 300 high-frequency words. Organized across three themed modules, each featuring a complete 100-word student study packet with definitions, contextual examples, and handwriting lines, paired with high-impact instructional presentation slides.
An introductory phonics lesson for UKG students where characters Sam and Mochi sail their boat to a magical island. There, they are greeted by cute, waving letter characters—vowel teams 'ai', 'oa', 'ie', and 'ee'—who introduce their sounds and words through storytelling and search activities.
A student-facing graphic organizer for Kindergarteners to map Chrysanthemum's character change. It features simple emoji selection choices (happy, humiliated, blooming) and large drawing panels for the story's beginning, middle, and end.
A 3-part comprehensive curriculum sequence mapping and teaching 150 high-frequency sight words phonetically. Includes three progressive mastery levels covering closed syllables, open syllables, silent E, vowel teams, r-controlled, and heart word decoding.
A culturally responsive English Language Arts lesson for first-grade Spanish-speaking ELL students based on 'The Name Jar' by Yangsook Choi. Students explore character, setting, and events, and make meaningful text-to-self connections through bilingual scaffolds, visual supports, and graduated response booklets.
A highly visual, Kindergarten-adapted slide deck detailing the three core vocabulary words (Humiliated, Dreadful, Jealous) with definitions, emojis, illustrations, and student discussion prompts. Also features a dedicated interactive slide for echo reading fluency practice.
A comprehensive, two-day phonics sequence focusing on the double vowel syllable patterns au and aw, alongside orthographic mapping for the heart words August, laugh, and daughter.
A magical phonics adventure exploring sound teams QU, OU, OI, UE, ER, AR, and OR through stories, tracing, hands-on sorting, and color-by-sound activities tailored for Kindergarten.
An instructional guide for the teacher detailing the Kindergarten-adapted Chrysanthemum read-aloud. It features step-by-step echo reading fluency protocols, interactive reading stopping points with 4 check-for-understanding questions, and implementation steps for the character change organizer.
