A quick, focused 15-minute lesson on identifying the main idea and supporting details through the lens of robins returning in the spring. Students will analyze a short passage to find the 'big picture' and the specific facts that support it.
A lesson designed to guide 3rd-grade students through transitioning their research essays on water issues into engaging, structured PSA video scripts. Students analyze an exemplar script, explore transition phrase templates, and draft their scripts using a side-by-side storyboard graphic organizer.
An interactive literature lesson exploring the rich sensory details and imagery in Tom Brenner's 'And Then Comes Summer'. Students identify and discuss sights, sounds, feels, and tastes to build comprehension and descriptive writing skills.
A planning and writing lesson centered around Joseph Bruchac's novel Two Roads, guiding students to write a structured narrative letter from Cal to Possum with differentiated scaffolding.
Focuses on using Metaphors and Similes to create powerful figurative imagery. Includes a final "My Poetry Masterpieces" portfolio cover and peer celebration review pages.
Focuses on shape, movement, and visual arrangement with Concrete (Shape) Poems and Free Verse. Provides scaffolded outline guides, word maps, and sensory feeling prompts.
Focuses on structure, rhythm, and sound through Acrostic Poems and Rhyming Couplets. Offers step-by-step graphic templates, letter grids, rhyming dictionaries, and syllable beat counters.
Focuses on Sensory and Color Poetry (Haiku and Color Poems). Students explore imagery using their five senses, utilizing highly visual sensory organizers, word banks, and syllable counters.
A complete pair of reference helpers for the kindergarten Countdown curriculum (Units 1-28), featuring a student folder reference helper and a colorful classroom anchor chart organized by unit.
A comprehensive pair of reference materials featuring all Really Great Reading Blast Heart Words for Units 1-30. Includes a compact student folder reference helper and a colorful classroom anchor chart organized by unit.
A comprehensive 5th-grade grammar unit focused on mastering conjunctions (coordinating and subordinating) and prepositional phrases through engaging, explorer-themed worksheets and reference tools.
A lesson focused on identifying the main idea and supporting details in short texts, designed with structured supports for students.
A comprehensive final examination for fourth-grade reading and grammar skills, testing direct objects, sentence editing, structural sentence framing, comprehension, comparison and contrast, and persuasive letter writing.
A third-grade reading lesson focused on identifying the central message and supporting evidence in realistic schoolyard fiction. Students learn to spot clues like a detective to discover the heart of the story.
A reading comprehension lesson for third graders focused on identifying key literal details (who, what, when, where, why, and how) in a narrative about a helpful backyard squirrel.
A highly condensed and academically rigorous pacing plan and gifted student adaptation guide for Amplify ELA Grade 6 Unit 6B. It compresses the 32 original lessons into a streamlined 24-25 day calendar designed specifically for high-ability fifth graders.
A narrative writing toolkit designed to spark creative thinking and narrative structure for fourth-grade students, featuring an engaging genre-based choice board and teacher implementation guide.
A creative 5th-grade ELA lesson focusing on Coordinating Conjunctions (FANBOYS) and dramatic Interjections through comic strip writing and structured sentence practice.
A hands-on, sequential learning experience where students master ordinal transition words (first, next, then, last) through the engaging process of making lemonade. This bundle includes a comprehensive teacher guide, a colorful anchor chart, and an interactive student worksheet.
A comprehensive lesson where students explore the archaeological discovery of Neanderthal dentistry, utilizing reading comprehension worksheets and scaffolded writing prompts to analyze ancient human capabilities.
An explicit modeling lesson focusing on introducing the 'Roof' (Main Idea) and 'Pillars' (Supporting Details) concept. Students learn paragraph structure and watch live highlighting demonstrations.
A 4th-5th grade weekly ELA homework packet focused on the axolotl and its incredible cellular regeneration abilities. Includes a challenging multi-paragraph informational text, root word/context-clue vocabulary work, a structural vs. behavioral adaptation sorting activity, and complex multiple-choice and short-answer questions with supportive sentence frames.
A 2nd-3rd grade weekly ELA homework packet centering on the mimic octopus, an animal that takes the form of other sea creatures to survive. Contains a multi-paragraph reading passage, context-clue vocabulary exercises, a visual disguise planning activity, and multiple-choice and short-answer comprehension questions with sentence-starter frames.
A K-1 weekly ELA homework packet featuring a short, high-interest reading passage about the chameleon's color-changing ability. Includes heavily supported vocabulary matching, visual drawing and labeling activities, simple comprehension questions with complete sentence starters, and an easy-to-use checklist tracker.
An interactive, silly reading adventure and spelling toolkit focused on multi-syllabic words, complex base words, and multi-suffix combinations for 4th/5th grade standards.
A dynamic lesson where students translate descriptive sensory details into vivid mental images. Students rotate through stations, reading sensory-rich paragraphs, sketching what they visualize, and identifying the imagery that triggered their imagination.
A reading fluency toolkit focused on third-grade cursive reading skills and amazing animal adaptations. Features a set of fluency binder pages with progress trackers and printable timed reading cards with word counts.
