A targeted small group lesson designed to help students slow down pivotal moments in their rainforest narratives by incorporating sensory details, internal monologue, and dialogue.
A comprehensive 5-day phonics breakout sequence where students complete daily independent spelling missions to crack codes. Covering CVC, Silent E, Digraphs/Blends, R-controlled vowels, and Vowel Teams, each day represents a new adventure challenge.
A series of high-interest, summer-themed worksheets designed to help fourth graders master the skill of paraphrasing. Students progress from paraphrasing direct quotes to identifying evidence in paragraphs and paraphrasing it.
A comprehensive 3-page teacher guide and complete answer key. Contains teaching scripts, common 4th-grade student misconceptions, scaffolding ideas, and professional-grade exemplar student answers for all four summer paraphrasing worksheets.
A comprehensive 4-week poetry curriculum designed for students requiring high structure and visual supports. It covers diverse poetry types (Haiku, Color, Acrostic, Couplets, Concrete, Free Verse, and Metaphor/Simile) with scaffolds like word banks, sentence frames, and graphic organizers.
Day 5 of the Phonics Breakout Series. Students enter the Vowel Team Temple and solve vowel-team riddles (ai, ay, ee, ea, oa, oo) to open the final sanctuary vault with a 3-digit numeric code.
A two-page student peer feedback form styled with an astronaut/space theme. Page 1 contains a spacious visual success checklist for evaluating a writing piece. Page 2 provides expanded writing spaces with generous handwriting lines and color-coded boxes for comprehensive positive and constructive feedback ('Stellar Glows' and 'Cosmic Grows'), accompanied by sentence frames designed for Multilingual Language Learners.
Day 4 of the Phonics Breakout Series. Students decipher ancient runes in the R-Controlled Ruins by writing missing ar, er, ir, or, and ur spelling patterns. Spells out a 4-letter word lock code.
A 2-page history-and-invention-themed paraphrasing worksheet. Fourth-grade students read four passages about summer history (the invention of the popsicle, the origins of rollercoasters, the creation of the Super Soaker, and Arctic sunglasses), extract evidence, and paraphrase it.
A comprehensive 15-lesson writing curriculum tailored for middle and high school students with intellectual disabilities. The sequence alternates weekly between personal narratives, evidence-based informational writing, and imagined stories, using heavy visual scaffolding, structured sentence frames, and clear graphic organizers.
Day 3 of the Phonics Breakout Series. Students cross the rickety Digraph & Blend Bridge. They fill in missing blends and digraphs (sh, ch, th, st, gr, bl) and count word patterns to unlock a 3-digit numeric code lock.
A 2-page science-themed paraphrasing worksheet. Fourth-grade students read four passages about summer science (melting ice cream, glowing fireflies, pesky mosquitoes, and sunburn defense), extract direct evidence, and paraphrase it.
