Focuses on trigraphs -tch and -dge. Thematic elements include bridge repairs, river crossings, and safety badges in the forest.
A creative Mother's Day activity where students design and write their own 'Mom Monthly' magazine to celebrate their mothers. Includes a stylish cover and interview-style features for different skill levels.
A creative project where students design and write their own 'Mama Monthly' magazine to celebrate Mother's Day, focusing on interviewing skills, descriptive writing, and gratitude.
A deep dive into Simone Biles' Olympic career, covering her triumphs in Rio, her mental health advocacy in Tokyo, and her historic comeback in Paris.
A lesson where students compare and contrast two informational texts about exploring extreme environments (Deep Space vs. Deep Sea). Students use a sorting activity and text evidence checklist to identify similarities and differences in how explorers stay safe and solve problems.
A hands-on lesson comparing and contrasting the extreme environments of space and the deep sea through the lens of astronaut and submariner experiences. Students will use direct evidence from paired texts to categorize facts and answer analytical questions.
A set of 20 engaging writing prompts tailored for a third-grade boy's interests in baseball, cats, and sharks, featuring slide-based instruction and printable prompt cards for a monthly journal.
A hands-on science and ELA lesson where students explore mystery scents and use descriptive olfactory details to document their observations.
A foundational lesson focusing on letter-sound correspondence using visual keywords and kinesthetic hand movements. Students will practice identifying letter names, sounds, and performing specific actions to reinforce memory.
A comprehensive collection of Dolch sight word resources for Pre-Primer through 3rd Grade. Includes structured flashcards with sentences and visuals, progress trackers, and a parent guide.
An Orton-Gillingham based lesson focusing on building and decoding words with 4-5 sounds, including CCVC, CVCC, CCVCC, and digraph blends using short vowels.
A comprehensive fluency lesson focusing on one-syllable silent e words (CVCE) across word, sentence, and paragraph levels. Includes direct instruction scripts, visual aids, and student practice materials.
A Grade 1 Orton-Gillingham lesson focusing on initial consonant blends (bl, br, sl, sm, cr, dr, fr, fl) with short vowels, featuring word reading, sentence reading, and encoding practice.
A phonics-focused lesson reviewing the vowel teams ea, ew, aw, ou, al, and au through an engaging safari-themed adventure. Students will practice identifying, sorting, and using these sounds in context.
A lesson for 3rd grade students to practice identifying nouns and adjectives through the lens of Native American cultures and nature.
A comprehensive lesson for 3rd and 4th graders on the USE strategy (Understand, Slash, Evidence) to improve multiple-choice accuracy using fiction and science texts.
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 collection of activities focused on developing inference skills using spring-themed content for third-grade students.
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.
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 week of targeted CVC practice covering blending, initial and final consonant changes, and automaticity.