Phonics Quest

A 5-day ELAR unit for 7th grade students centered on Rudyard Kipling's classic 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi'. Students will analyze plot elements (foreshadowing/suspense), character influences, author's purpose, and complete STAAR-aligned short constructed responses and revising/editing practices.

A comprehensive lesson exploring concrete and abstract nouns, action, linking, and helping verbs, and the rules of subject-verb agreement. Includes an interactive slide deck, a detailed lesson plan, and a print-ready student worksheet.

A 2-page print-ready answer key for teachers, featuring completed answers, structural breakdowns, and exemplar student responses for all worksheet sections.

An intensive phonemic awareness intervention sequence focused on onset-rime substitution and deletion. Students act as 'sound mechanics' dismantling, swapping, and reassembling single-syllable words across three progressive phonetic levels.

An engaging grammar lesson introducing middle schoolers to coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions (the bridges) and interjections (the bursts). Students learn to construct advanced sentence structures and punchy narrative beats.

A 2-page print-ready student worksheet styled as an engineering blueprint to practice classifying nouns, identifying verbs, and applying subject-verb agreement rules.

A five-day middle school ELA sequence focused on analyzing how authors construct suspense, pacing, and mood in classic short stories, culminating in student-authored suspense scenes and a forensic peer review.

A comprehensive ELA reading comprehension lesson focused on teaching students how to make logical inferences using text evidence and schema. Students act as 'Clue Catchers' to solve short mystery passages.

A 16:9 presentation slide deck designed to guide direct instruction and interactive practice on concrete/abstract nouns, action/linking/helping verbs, and subject-verb agreement rules.

An immersive phonics unit where students join Safari Sam on an expedition to find the elusive silent 'e'. Students learn how 'e' changes short vowels to long vowels through multisensory, color-coded, and hands-on cut-and-paste activities.

Students will compile their weekly work, complete a self-assessment progress checklist, participate in a collaborative reflection discussion, and turn in their completed unit portfolios for final grading.

A comprehensive teacher facilitation guide outlining pacing, standards, objective breakdowns, direct instruction scripts, and guided practice for types of nouns/verbs and subject-verb agreement.