Matilda begins school at Crunchem Hall and meets the angelic Miss Honey and the terrifying Miss Trunchbull (Chapters 7-10).
A collection of activities focused on developing inference skills using spring-themed content for third-grade students.
A comprehensive reading comprehension lesson focusing on RI.1, RI.2, RI.3, and RI.4 standards through the lenses of Animal Adaptations and the Three Branches of Government.
A lesson focused on morphology where students deconstruct words into prefixes, bases, and suffixes to determine their meanings using a word bank formula.
A Grade 4 literacy lesson focusing on the structural analysis of words with common prefixes: re-, mis-, dis-, and un-. Includes a multi-page reading passage and identification activities.
A week of targeted CVC practice covering blending, initial and final consonant changes, and automaticity.
A series of decodable sentences and activities focusing on closed syllables, VCe patterns, r-controlled vowels, and specific glue sounds (ost, ild, ank, unk). Students will practice blending and reading these patterns in context.
A punchy 30-minute introduction to writing odes, focusing on finding extraordinary beauty in everyday objects through descriptive praise and poetic structure.
A comprehensive progress monitoring set for vowel teams ai, ay, ee, ea, and oa. Includes student-facing reading and spelling materials along with teacher-facing scoring and dictation guides.
A 5-day intensive review of Closed, Open, Magic E, Vowel Team, Bossy R, and Consonant -le syllable types, designed for 20-minute intervention blocks.
A comprehensive lesson on using demonstrative pronouns (this, that, these, those) through the lens of museum curators managing an exhibit. Students learn to distinguish between singular/plural and near/far objects.
The concluding phase of the routine, focusing on the final performance, the resolution of the novel's conflicts, and the lasting changes in Jake and the Applewhites.
The middle phase of the routine, focusing on the development of the play 'The Sound of Music' and the increasing cooperation between the eccentric family members.
The introductory phase of the daily routine, focusing on character introductions, the setting of Wit's End, and the initial clash of personalities between Jake and E.D.
