A Grade 4 literacy lesson focusing on the structural analysis of words with common prefixes: re-, mis-, dis-, and un-. Includes a multi-page reading passage and identification activities.
A culminating experience where students review the four text types and create their own 'Meaning Maker Masterpiece' by writing a short piece using specific structural and figurative tools.
Focused on opinion texts, this lesson teaches students to identify an author's point of view and the reasons provided to support it, while exploring persuasive word choices.
Focused on poetry, this lesson explores how stanzas and rhyme create rhythm and how metaphors and sensory words build vivid imagery for the reader.
A decodable reading lesson centered on a story about getting lost at an amusement park, focusing on reading comprehension and safety rules.
A comprehensive lesson for 2nd and 3rd graders on using the present progressive tense. Students will learn the formula for adding -ing to verbs and use helping verbs to describe actions happening right now through a photography-themed exploration.
A comprehensive reading comprehension lesson focusing on RI.1, RI.2, RI.3, and RI.4 standards through the lenses of Animal Adaptations and the Three Branches of Government.
A lesson focused on morphology where students deconstruct words into prefixes, bases, and suffixes to determine their meanings using a word bank formula.
Advanced word study focusing on syllable division rules, decoding strategies for 2-syllable words, and reading multisyllabic fluency.
A week of targeted CVC practice covering blending, initial and final consonant changes, and automaticity.
A comprehensive 15-page reading and grammar review packet for 2nd-grade students. This neutral resource covers nouns (common/proper), verbs, adjectives, adverbs, synonyms, antonyms, contractions, reading comprehension across 6 passages, and opinion writing.
A series of decodable sentences and activities focusing on closed syllables, VCe patterns, r-controlled vowels, and specific glue sounds (ost, ild, ank, unk). Students will practice blending and reading these patterns in context.
A phonics-focused lesson for second graders centered on gymnastics, targeting short vowels, CVCe patterns, r-controlled vowels, and common contractions.
A set of three weekly progress monitoring probes for 2nd-grade literal comprehension, featuring both fiction and informational texts formatted as 'Case Files'.
A comprehensive progress monitoring set for vowel teams ai, ay, ee, ea, and oa. Includes student-facing reading and spelling materials along with teacher-facing scoring and dictation guides.
A comprehensive phonics lesson introducing the diphthongs 'oi' and 'oy' through a fun factory-themed exploration. Students will learn the spelling patterns and rules for when to use each spelling to create the /ɔɪ/ sound.
A foundational phonics lesson focusing on identifying and reading words with the digraphs wh, sh, ch, and ck within a beach-themed narrative. Students will practice oral reading fluency and basic reading comprehension.
A comprehensive lesson on using demonstrative pronouns (this, that, these, those) through the lens of museum curators managing an exhibit. Students learn to distinguish between singular/plural and near/far objects.
A foundational lesson on common prefixes (un-, re-, pre-, dis-) where students act as 'Word Architects' to build and deconstruct words.
A phonics lesson focusing on the diphthong 'ow' as heard in 'clown' and 'town'.