School Story Creators

A high-interest writing unit that teaches students the TEXT opinion writing strategy through structured debates on topics like school recess and wild animal captivity.

A comprehensive ELA reading comprehension lesson focused on teaching students how to make logical inferences using text evidence and schema. Students act as 'Clue Catchers' to solve short mystery passages.

A 2-page teacher resource featuring a complete ELA lesson plan with standards, 50-minute pacing guide, step-by-step facilitation instructions, differentiation strategies, and full answer keys.

A complete four-day reading and creative arts sequence for grades K-3. Each day focuses on a popular Halloween story paired with an interactive hands-on activity like making masks, color-by-number worksheets, skeleton assembly crafts, and candy mazes.

A complete oral reading fluency assessment and tracking toolkit designed for small group instruction in 3rd grade. Includes two leveled passages (beginning fable and mid-year science nonfiction), teacher running records, student-facing reading copies, a master tracking sheet, and quick-use prompt cards.

An instructional slide deck designed for interactive direct instruction, exploring the concept of making inferences with the Clue Catcher formula. Includes practice cases and class discussion cues.

A comprehensive assessment bundle for vowel and consonant digraphs and blends, designed for second and third-grade students. Includes student pages with clear spacing, teacher tracking sheets, and a robust scoring rubric.

A 3rd-grade reading comprehension lesson focused on identifying the fiction genre. Students learn to recognize make-believe story elements, such as talking animal characters and imaginative plots, to prove a text is fiction.

A 2-page detective-themed student worksheet featuring two mystery reading passages, graphic organizers for recording evidence and schema, and text-dependent inference questions.

A third-grade reading comprehension unit focused on CCSS RL.3.2, teaching students to determine the central message, lesson, or moral of stories and explain how it is conveyed through character actions and details.

A third-grade reading comprehension lesson focused on CCSS RL.3.2, analyzing how character actions and details teach the moral of the story 'Fresh Coat'. Students analyze how Leo's choices and changing feelings lead to a valuable community lesson.

A comprehensive, single-page teacher running record sheet for the science nonfiction passage 'The Fire of Fireflies'. Features a clean, dual-column design with spaced passage text and cumulative word counts on the left, and automated-style scoring boxes, an 4-point informational retell checklist, and a 3-question comprehension scoring section on the right.