Teaching students that poems can tell stories. Students will read and write short narrative verses about everyday events.
A lesson designed for second graders to explore story sequencing, character traits, and vocabulary using hands-on storytelling props, leveled task cards, and interactive trace-and-color activities based on the story of a helpful fox and a trapped monkey.
Students analyze character traits, build aligned comparison matrices, examine settings as active forces, connect contrasts to theme, and complete a collaborative weekly review for 'A New Jacket'.
An out-of-this-world phonics adventure focusing on initial 's' blends (st, sp, sl, sn, sm, sw, sk). Students practice identifying, writing, and reading blend words through progressive practice pages.
A comprehensive diagnostic kit for letter recognition (uppercase and lowercase) and letter sounds. Includes randomized student stimulus pages, teacher recording grids in developmental order, and individual/class progress trackers.
A literature lesson examining how different characters experience and narrate the exact same central event. Students analyze three contrasting accounts of a mysterious clocktower ringing to explore the impact of perspective on narrative truth, tone, and character motivation.
An end-of-year narrative writing assessment where students design their own video game character, setting, and quest, then write an engaging adventure story based on their creation.
The core launch materials for the Adult Literacy Lab, providing instructors with the structural handbook, tracking rubrics, and high-contrast letter/word cards and writing strips required to deliver daily targeted literacy practice.
A rigorous, standards-aligned lesson focused on teaching students how ideas, events, and concepts interact in complex informational texts using four major organizational structures.
A comprehensive end-of-unit poetry analysis assessment consisting of text-dependent questions, a short-answer section on a fresh poem, and an analytical writing prompt with a standardized grading rubric.
Students explore how historical era, biography, and cultural context shape a poem's themes and resonance. Includes instructional slides and an analytical guided notes organizer examining diverse voices in poetry.
Students analyze how word choice (diction) establishes atmosphere (mood) and speaker attitude (tone), tracking the pivotal shifts where meaning transforms. Includes slides and a tracker-style close reading worksheet.
