Standard Showdown Task Cards

A comprehensive set of reading comprehension check-in quizzes for five popular middle-grade novels. Each novel features two specialized quizzes—one focusing on initial character introductions and the other on major plot resolutions.

A lesson focusing on identifying the central theme of a text about first-day jitters and using the RACE writing strategy to formulate structured, text-evidence-supported responses.

A comprehensive one-page teacher guide and answer key for 'The Hallway Hurdle' worksheet, featuring model RACE responses, a grading rubric, and common student misconceptions.

A comprehensive diagnostic assessment sequence designed for the second week of first grade. Spanning two days, it evaluates Kindergarten readiness and first-grade baseline performance across English, Phonics, Writing, Math, and Science in structured 45-minute sessions.

A rapid-fire, high-energy 15-minute ESL lesson for 1st graders focusing on animal movement verbs (slither, glide, paddle, swim, fly, crawl, leap, survive) and comparing baby animals to their mothers using scaffolded sentence frames.

A comprehensive three-page student worksheet featuring 'The Hallway Hurdle' short story, a colorful mini-anchor chart based on the RACE writing strategy, step-by-step lined writing boxes, and a guided model page with fill-in-the-blank practice.

An engaging introductory phonics unit teaching first-grade students to identify, read, and write short and long vowel sounds with silent magic 'e'.

An Intermediate (B1) English grammar lesson for adult learners that targets the expression of ability and possibility. This lesson guides students from basic present-tense modals up through the critical past-tense distinction between general ability and specific achievements, culminating in complex future and advanced structures.

A 10-lesson Stage 1 Year 2 English Component B program based on the book 'Luna Roo' by Adam Jackson and Adrian Lloyd. The sequence explicitly teaches simple and compound sentences enriched with descriptive adjectives focused on Luna's outback soccer matches, animal teammates, and dusty playing fields.