A phonics and morphology lesson featuring a bingo game to practice decoding and decomposing multisyllabic words with split-vowel bases and affixes. Students analyze prefixes, base words, and suffixes while reinforcing vocabulary definitions.
Students read an adapted news article about Jen Rubino, a teenager who founded Cards for Hospitalized Kids to bring hope and joy to patients across the country. They practice identifying main ideas and details.
Students read an adapted news article about a teenager who created school "care lockers" to supply classmates with free daily hygiene essentials and school supplies. They practice identifying main ideas and details.
An explicit, highly scaffolded reading intervention lesson introducing long o vowel teams (oa, ow, oe) while reviewing silent-e (o_e) through structured word sorting, guided spelling comparison, and phrase reading.
Students read an adapted news article about Yash Gupta, a teenager who started a nonprofit to provide glasses to children in need. They practice identifying the main idea and supporting details through text-dependent comprehension questions.
A comprehensive mini-lesson bundle designed to teach students the crucial rules of indentation, paragraph transitions, formatting dialogue, and avoiding common academic essay pitfalls. Uses a retro-arcade 'Indent Invaders' theme to keep students engaged in structural writing mechanics.
An application-focused reading intervention lesson reinforcing ee/ea/ey vowel teams in connected reading and spelling. Designed for high school struggling readers, this lesson contrasts vowel teams with the silent-e (e_e) pattern and reviews previous long a spellings.
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.
An explicit, highly scaffolded reading intervention lesson introducing long e vowel teams (ee, ea, ey) while reviewing long a vowel teams (ai, ay) through structured word sorting, guided reading, and spelling rules.
An application-focused reading intervention lesson reinforcing ai/ay vowel teams in connected reading and spelling. Designed for high school struggling readers, this lesson incorporates a robust r-controlled vowel review and advanced word sorting.
An explicit, highly scaffolded reading intervention lesson focusing on the long a spelling patterns ai and ay. Designed for high school struggling readers, this lesson contrasts these new vowel teams with the familiar silent-e (a_e) pattern through structured decoding, word analysis, and writing tasks.
A formal mastery assessment designed to track high school students' decoding accuracy, spelling, and phonetic discrimination across all major r-controlled vowel families.
An engaging, detective-themed reading comprehension and summarizing lesson about the mysterious axolotl. Students analyze high-interest scientific facts, complete a 'Clue Collector' graphic organizer, and compile their findings into a final summary report.
A dynamic phonics lesson centered around V/V syllable division. Students learn to spot and divide adjacent vowels that split into separate syllables using a fun, competitive 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.
A cooperative and engaging reading comprehension game for Little House in the Big Woods (pages 1-60). This lesson includes a Teacher Call Sheet with chapter-specific clues and four unique, beautifully designed, print-ready student Bingo cards.
A reading comprehension lesson centered on outer space, teaching beginning fourth graders how to identify main ideas, supporting details, and use context clues for vocabulary with large-print text and visual highlights.
An engaging, non-graded project-based lesson for Week 3/4 (3/4 of the way through the books). Students design an Emblem of Resilience for their protagonist, followed by an independent, highly structured Desk Gallery Walk and Discussion Protocol using PBL peer inquiry.
A student-friendly ELA lesson focused on writing impactful, correctly punctuated dialogue with character action beats.
A student-friendly ELA lesson focused on developing a story's conflict by identifying its type (internal vs. external) and mapping out climbing events.
A student-friendly ELA lesson focused on writing strong story openings (expositions) using hook strategies, character reveals, setting, and mood.
A student-friendly ELA lesson focused on converting a Story Mountain into a detailed scene-by-scene Plot Timeline, wrapping up Week 1 of Narrative Writing.
A complete, student-friendly 5th-grade grammar lesson on past, present, and future perfect verb tenses, along with identifying and correcting improper verb tense shifts. Includes instructional slides, cloze notes, a practice worksheet, vertical desk anchor charts, and center-ready task cards.
Students use the five senses and figurative language (similes, metaphors, personification) to write a vivid, immersive narrative setting description.
Students learn the 5-stage Story Mountain structure (Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution) and plan writer's craft elements, including a line of dialogue and a focused craft move for their narrative.
A structured writing lesson for 4th-grade English learners (WIDA Levels 1-2) to express their opinions about school uniforms. It provides scaffolded vocabulary, sentence frames, and a simplified rubric to guide and assess their progress.