A lesson focused on chapters 29-35 of Louis Sachar's Holes, exploring the deepening friendship between Stanley and Zero as they face the challenges of the desert. Students will analyze character relationships, make inferences about their survival, and identify the central theme of loyalty.

A deep dive into context clue strategies using key vocabulary from chapters 21-28 of Holes, featuring multi-level support for diverse learners.

This lesson focuses on chapters 14-20 of Louis Sachar's 'Holes', emphasizing the development of inferencing and predicting skills as students analyze character motivations and plot developments.

A lesson exploring figurative language in Chapters 7-13 of Louis Sachar's Holes, focusing on identifying and analyzing similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, idioms, and personification through the lens of life at Camp Green Lake.

A focused exploration of cause and effect relationships in the opening chapters of Louis Sachar's 'Holes', covering Stanley's arrival at Camp Green Lake and the history of the Yelnats family curse.

A comprehensive lesson on adding suffixes to multi-syllabic words ending in a silent 'e', focusing on the rules for dropping or keeping the 'e' based on the suffix type.

A comprehensive ELA review packet designed for 5th graders following IAR testing, featuring a fun boho-pink aesthetic. The lesson covers key domains including poetry, figurative language, context clues, main idea, inferencing, summarizing, and grammar.

A lesson focusing on identifying nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections using athletic and academic contexts.

A comprehensive grammar lesson for 4th and 5th graders on identifying and using subject pronouns (he, she, they) to improve sentence variety and clarity. Students will learn to 'swap' repetitive nouns for efficient pronouns in various contexts.

A comprehensive lesson focused on identifying key details and determining the main idea in texts about social media safety and digital citizenship.

A lesson on making inferences using the 'Detective Agency' theme. Students learn to combine text evidence with background knowledge to uncover hidden meanings in short stories.

A pair of engaging recording sheets designed for students to track their reading on Epic!, featuring specific templates for both fiction and nonfiction texts.

Students practice combining simple sentences with the same subjects into compound sentences using pronouns and adding descriptive predicate expanders (where, when, why, and how).

A lesson focused on identifying central ideas and morals within realistic fiction through a story about responsibility and growth.

Students will learn how to structure an informative essay about the Black Death, focusing on its origins, spread, and impact on medieval society. This lesson provides a guided outline to help 5th graders organize their research into a cohesive multi-paragraph format.

A 5th grade ELA escape room focused on decoding and understanding multisyllabic r-controlled vowel words, set in a mysterious, locked library. Students must solve three linguistic challenges to find the 'Golden Key' and exit the library before the 40-minute timer expires.

A collection of visual goal-tracking dashboards for grades 1-5, using a rocket launch theme to help students visualize their reading fluency targets for the year.

A deep dive into morphology and common word endings (-able, -ible, -ary, -ery, -ory, -ant, -ent), focusing on how Latin roots and base words determine spelling patterns.

A comprehensive ELA assessment featuring informational and literary texts about Southwest Native American tribes, aligned to 5th-6th grade standards. Students will analyze text structure, theme, and main ideas while exploring the cultures of the Pueblo and Diné people.

A deep dive into Sheila Burnford's classic adventure, focusing on the trio's survival through the Canadian wilderness. Students explore character motivations, analyze the atmospheric setting, and practice collaborative discussion techniques.