Miss Liberty Readers

A two-day Irish folklore reading comprehension and text-based response unit focusing on character traits, inference, and evidence-based writing using the RACE strategy. Students explore Patrick's encounter with the leprechaun and analyze trickery and cleverness through targeted multiple-choice checks and constructed responses.

A comprehensive close reading and text analysis lesson exploring John Steinbeck's Chapter 1 of Of Mice and Men. Students examine pastoral imagery, character juxtaposition, and the thematic foreshadowing of the American Dream through targeted excerpts, guided questions, and structured discussion.

A six-slide classroom presentation deck guiding students through the close reading of Of Mice and Men Chapter 1. Covers the Salinas River setting, character juxtaposition, the dead mouse motif, and the recitation of the American Dream.

A comprehensive 6th-grade ELA assessment unit focused on foundational reading comprehension, vocabulary acquisition, and literary and informational text analysis across fiction and non-fiction.

A collection of five printable third-grade storybooks spanning realistic, animal, and imaginative genres designed for five-event narrative sequencing. Each book features illustrated chapters, chronological plot milestones, and print-and-bind book formatting.

A two-page comprehensive teacher guide and answer key for Of Mice and Men Chapter 1. Includes instructional objectives, standards alignment, line-by-line passage annotations, model exemplar student responses, and analytical rubrics.

A multi-session phonemic awareness progression focused on oral phoneme blending, segmenting, adding, deleting, and substituting sounds in spoken words.

Day 2 follows the resolution of Patrick's quest as he attempts to outsmart the leprechaun with a red scarf. Students analyze the leprechaun's legendary trickery through multiple-choice comprehension questions and a text-evidenced RACE constructed response.

A two-page printable close reading worksheet for Of Mice and Men Chapter 1. Features key text excerpts, text-dependent analysis questions on setting and character juxtaposition, and a synthesis writing response with ample student work areas.

A multi-disciplinary standards-based curriculum sequence featuring rigorous standardized reading assessment preparation and fundamental multi-digit decimal arithmetic operations.