A collection of resources to encourage and track reading progress over the summer break for K-3 students, including a parent letter and activity suggestions.

A home-school communication system for K-3 students featuring a homework bag log and an introductory letter for parents, detailing a Monday-Tuesday-Thursday homework schedule.

A lesson focused on teaching third-grade students how to answer 'Wh-' questions in complete sentences by restating the question as a statement. Students will practice this skill using texts about inventors, animal adaptations, and space.

A 45-minute 9th-grade ELA lesson focused on crafting effective counterclaims and rebuttals using the pivotal moment in Life of Pi where Pi kills his first fish. Students will analyze whether this event fundamentally changes Pi's character or if his core remains intact.

A high-interest lesson where students act as 'Meaning Detectives' to identify and interpret similes, metaphors, idioms, and symbolism in text.

A high-engagement lesson that frames the research and writing process as a detective investigation. Students learn to craft research questions and thesis statements, evaluate primary and secondary sources, and organize their findings into a coherent outline with proper citations.

This lesson focuses on identifying and understanding common vowel teams (ai, ay, oa, oe, ow, ee, ea, ey, ie, igh) through targeted fiction and nonfiction reading passages. Students will practice reading words with these patterns in context while developing key comprehension skills like sequencing, inferring, and identifying main ideas.

A comprehensive analysis lesson focusing on characterization, diction, and conflict in John Knowles's A Separate Peace, designed to prepare students for standardized testing through rigorous text-dependent questions.

Students analyze peer-created commercials during a gallery walk, identifying persuasion techniques, target audiences, and production choices.

A comprehensive state-testing prep lesson centered on Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Not So Far as The Forest," focusing on close reading, annotation, and structural analysis.