Focusing on the strength of topic and concluding sentences, students write about John Walker's friction matches.
An energetic classroom phonics lesson where students compete in a friendly Knockout tournament to master vowel teams and diphthongs. Includes interactive instructional and gameplay slides, plus a student tracking sheet.
An end-of-year reflection lesson designed specifically for English Language Learners, featuring tiered worksheets for Beginning/Entering and Developing/Expanding levels, supported by a detailed facilitator guide.
A comprehensive lesson focused on understanding and applying transition words to build logical, smooth connections between ideas in writing.
A high-engagement, Jeopardy-style review game designed for 4th-grade English Language Learners to master the characters, settings, key events, and plot structure of Treasure Island. Includes visual clues, multiple-choice options, sentence frames, and a vocabulary explorer handout to scaffold oral and written responses.
A grade 3-4 literacy assessment lesson that includes a comprehensive, multi-page student progress assessment covering reading passage comprehension, retelling, inferential analysis, writing, and editing.
A reading comprehension and writing assessment themed around Harriet Tubman's Union spy missions during the Civil War. Designed for 3rd and 4th-grade students with simplified questions, guided text retelling, and editing practice.
A fun, summer-themed word search lesson designed for standard grid gameplay with high-contrast elements suitable for highlight strips. Includes a clean 10x10 word search and a corresponding teacher answer key.
An interactive, Science of Reading-aligned phonics and morphology program for upper elementary students. It features multi-sensory station activities, orthographic mapping, syllable division practice, and morphological decoding tools.
A collection of engaging morning work activities designed for fourth graders to start their summer days with focus and creativity. Features cursive tracing, a visual-aided summer word search, and a creative writing prompt.
A complete intervention pack designed to boost reading fluency for 2nd-4th grade students reading below grade level. The pack contains teacher instructions, student tracking charts, printable carnival tickets, and themed passages optimized for repeated timed readings and choral/echo practice.
A comprehensive oral reading fluency bundle themed around 'The Reading Carnival'. It includes game guides, differentiated reading cards, progress trackers, and achievement awards designed specifically for struggling 1st-4th grade readers to build speed, accuracy, and confidence in a high-energy summer camp environment.
A weekly oral reading fluency program themed around a vintage carnival. It focuses on pacing, phrasing, and decoding multi-syllable words through engaging fiction and non-fiction passages with built-in trackers.
A high-energy, carnival-themed literacy package designed to boost oral reading fluency with a focus on phrasing and punctuation. Features print-and-cut phrasing task cards, partner-based carnival games, and a dramatic Reader's Theater script set under the Big Top.
A comprehensive 60-minute ELA lesson focused on the animated short film 'The Present'. Students explore core reading skills—inferential thinking, prediction, citing evidence, and concrete symbolism—by analyzing the boy, the box, the dog, and the final reveal.
An engaging end-of-the-year activity bundle themed around CKLA Unit 8 Treasure Island, specifically scaffolded for 4th-grade students with low literacy. This lesson incorporates active gameplay, visual word wall cards, and sentence-stem writing prompts to master key vocabulary.
Focuses on using Metaphors and Similes to create powerful figurative imagery. Includes a final "My Poetry Masterpieces" portfolio cover and peer celebration review pages.
