The Many Sided Mystery

A comprehensive GLAD unit exploring bear biology, behavior, and literature through engaging interactive lessons, vocabulary builders, and narrative study of Corduroy.

A beginner reading comprehension lesson focused on simple CVC words and pre-primer/primer sight words, featuring a story about a girl named Meg and her baking.

An active, safari-themed Write-the-Room scavenger hunt designed specifically for struggling first-grade readers to identify and understand key nonfiction text features through movement and visual cues.

A complete toolkit for students to master the art of being an active, respectful, and constructive audience member during peer presentations. Includes audience expectations and an interactive presentation tracker.

A comprehensive foundational reading review lesson that focuses on phonics concepts from HD Word Foundations. Includes a multi-page student activity packet and a corresponding teacher answer key for diagnostic and remedial instruction.

A comprehensive, multi-sensory phonics lesson targeting short 'a' CVC words. Includes interactive slides, a structured lesson plan, hands-on workstation activities, and baseline tracking tools designed for early readers.

A kindergarten lesson centered around matching closed-syllable word halves with pictures to form 2-syllable words. Includes puzzle-style task cards, a teacher guide, and a student recording sheet.

A first-grade phonics lesson focusing on the vowel teams ai, ay, oa, and igh. It features a woodland-themed decodable passage, comprehension questions, a phonics-hunting tracker, and a printable classroom Bingo game.

A complete phonics lesson focusing on decoding and spelling words with 'au' and 'aw' diphthongs through an engaging 6-board Bingo game, master word checklist, and printable cut-out caller cards.

An interactive, phonics-focused detective adventure for Kindergarten and 1st Grade students. Students step into the role of 'Sound Detectives' to identify letter sounds, blend consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words, and solve word mysteries using visual 'sound clues' and interactive slides.

An engaging early literacy lesson focused on eight essential sight words (the, they, then, was, were, went, said, again). Includes direct instruction slides, a sentence-completion worksheet, an exit ticket, and a teacher guide.

A foundational phonics lesson targeting short vowel identification and CVC word construction using engaging visuals and hands-on matching and writing exercises.

A reading comprehension lesson focused on making inferences. Students will learn to combine clues from the text with their own background knowledge to solve mini-mysteries and answer deep comprehension questions.

An encoding assessment focused on welded sounds (-ng and -nk families) through pictures and context clues. Students write independently to demonstrate phonics mastery.

Form 5 of the phonics progress monitoring sequence. Tracks student decoding and encoding of an equivalent parallel set of 15 long o (oa, oe) and long i (ie) words.

Form 4 of the phonics progress monitoring sequence. Tracks student decoding and encoding of an equivalent parallel set of 15 long o (oa, oe) and long i (ie) words.

Form 3 of the phonics progress monitoring sequence. Tracks student decoding and encoding of an equivalent parallel set of 15 long o (oa, oe) and long i (ie) words.

Form 2 of the phonics progress monitoring sequence. Tracks student decoding and encoding of an equivalent parallel set of 15 long o (oa, oe) and long i (ie) words.

A focused phonics progress monitoring lesson for decoding and encoding long o (oa, oe) and long i (ie) vowel teams. Includes student reading sheets, teacher scoring rubrics, and student dictation worksheets.

A 5-day daily writing practice packet with visual prompts, scaffolding, and self-monitoring checklists. Students learn to write 3 complete sentences each day with a subject, predicate, capitalization, proper spacing, and correct ending punctuation.

An out-of-this-world phonics adventure focusing on initial 's' blends (st, sp, sl, sn, sm, sw, sk). Students practice identifying, writing, and reading blend words through progressive practice pages.

A comprehensive diagnostic kit for letter recognition (uppercase and lowercase) and letter sounds. Includes randomized student stimulus pages, teacher recording grids in developmental order, and individual/class progress trackers.

A comprehensive, 10-month progress-monitoring curriculum designed for rapid decoding trials. This lesson contains a student tracking binder, weekly assessment cards, and a complete curriculum booklet focusing on single-syllable phonics patterns.

A 1st-grade lesson on identifying and analyzing the character, setting, and plot elements of 'The Magician's Hat' by Malcolm Mitchell.

A clean, focused phonic assessment lesson designed to test CCVC, CVCC, and CVCe word pattern decoding without scaffolds.

A 1st-grade lesson on nonfiction text features using an explorer-themed slide deck, a lively Bingo game, and a three-level differentiated practice packet.

Weeks 11-20 of the Phoneme Power Protocol intervention, focusing on CCVC (consonant blends) and complex CVC words. Includes systematic small-group routines for 4-phoneme words, visual 4-box Elkonin mats, tactile onset-rime blending cards, and progress monitoring scoring sheets for Weeks 12, 16, and 20.

Weeks 1-10 of the Phoneme Power Protocol intervention, focusing on VC and CVC words. Includes systematic routines for segmenting individual sounds (PSF) and blending phonemes into nonsense and real words (NWF) using 2-box and 3-box Elkonin mats, color-coded word cards, and progress monitoring at Weeks 4 and 8.

An engaging end-of-year kindergarten reading lesson centered around cute animal characters. Features a progression from strict CVC words to simple initial blends, complete with reading passages, comprehension questions, interactive coloring elements, individual small-group reading cards, and a take-home mini-book.

A decodable phonics lesson focused on the 'aw' and 'au' digraphs. Students read a custom passage about a creative inventor, practice syllable division for multi-syllable words, and complete comprehension checks.

A phonics-focused lesson that utilizes a decodable reader about Sam, a cat, and a rat, designed to reinforce short 'a' CVC words and simple sentence structures. Includes a slides book and interactive comprehension activities.

A Grade 1 reading comprehension lesson focused on oral reading fluency and explicit/implicit questions using a 73-word story about a young girl named Mia finding a golden key that opens an old toy box.

A Grade 1 reading comprehension lesson focused on oral reading fluency and explicit/implicit questions using a 69-word story about a tiny blue bird named Pip learning to fly.