A reading comprehension lesson for 2nd and 3rd-grade students based on the spectacular meteor explosion over New England. Features engaging news-style reading, vocabulary challenges, comprehension questions, and a creative activity.
This lesson focuses on personal identification details like address, phone number, and birthdate, designed for multi-level adult literacy learners ranging from pre-literate to transitional writers.
An engaging, hands-on physics and engineering lesson where students design, build, and test protective landing craft for fragile payloads (eggs), exploring forces, deceleration, and structural integrity.
An on-grade level reading and comprehension unit focusing on how extreme desert animals, specifically the Thorny Devil, utilize highly specialized physical and behavioral adaptations to survive in the arid Australian Outback.
Weeks 11-20 of the Phoneme Power Protocol intervention, focusing on CCVC (consonant blends) and complex CVC words. Includes systematic small-group routines for 4-phoneme words, visual 4-box Elkonin mats, tactile onset-rime blending cards, and progress monitoring scoring sheets for Weeks 12, 16, and 20.
Weeks 1-10 of the Phoneme Power Protocol intervention, focusing on VC and CVC words. Includes systematic routines for segmenting individual sounds (PSF) and blending phonemes into nonsense and real words (NWF) using 2-box and 3-box Elkonin mats, color-coded word cards, and progress monitoring at Weeks 4 and 8.
Investigates the coastal mangrove biome, highlighting the archerfish and its physical adaptations for spitting water to hunt insects.
Explores the freezing arctic tundra biome, showcasing the arctic fox and how its coat color and small ears help it survive.
Focuses on the arid desert biome, featuring the thorny devil and its unique adaptations for hydration and defense.
An intensive summative assessment lesson designed to check student mastery of FLOSS, -ck, -tch, -dge, and -le decoding and spelling patterns.
A cumulative review and decision-making lesson consolidating all short-vowel ending rules (FLOSS, -ck, -tch, -dge) and stable final syllables (consonant + -le) to cement orthographic reasoning and decoding precision.
A celebratory end-of-year English Language Arts lesson where students step into the role of literary travel agents, designing promotional brochures and pitching fictional book worlds to classmates to boost summer reading.
A high-stakes spelling adventure game focusing on "au" and "aw" diphthong words. Students navigate a perilous track to reach the Alchemist's Cauldron by spelling and defining challenging vocabulary.
Weeks 10-13 prepare students for end-of-year goals, reaching Lexile 600. Features deep-ocean giants, clubhouses, solar energy, and camping adventures.
Weeks 7-9 advance students into higher-complexity structures (Lexile 470 to 520), featuring adventure maps, earth science, and baking challenges.
Weeks 4-6 bridge students toward mid-year complexity, moving from Lexile 380 to 440. Content focuses on cloud science, friendship, and animal sleep habits.
Weeks 1-3 focus on foundational second-grade fluency, transitioning from Lexile 300 to 350. Includes stories on courage, helpful bees, and team work.
The introductory phase of the Fluency Flight program, featuring the master progress tracking graph and goal-setting activities.
A comprehensive literary analysis lesson focusing on connecting textual evidence directly back to a central idea. This lesson equips students with structured templates and a teacher guide to bridge the gap between quote dissection and thematic analysis.
Focuses on decoding and spelling longer, academic multisyllabic words ending in consonant + -le, while spiraling previously learned short-vowel spelling patterns (-ck, -tch, -dge) during warm-ups and comparative activities.
A comprehensive lesson and set of scaffolded graphic organizers designed to help students analyze character traits and master citing text evidence. Includes high, medium, and low levels of scaffolding to differentiate instruction.
A complete weekly vocabulary unit focusing on four critical Tier 2 academic verbs: Identify, Describe, Compare, and Summarize. This lesson includes an instructional slide deck, printable daily worksheets, hands-on vocabulary cards, and a teacher facilitation guide.
An engaging introduction to verbs for third graders. It covers physical actions, mental actions, and state-of-being verbs through guided slides, a hands-on student practice sheet, and an expert teacher facilitation guide.
Introduces the final stable syllable consonant + -le, teaching a consistent cover-and-chunk strategy while spiraling open and closed syllable prerequisites.
An intensive review and comparative lesson integrating all four major short-vowel closing patterns (FLOSS, -ck, -tch, -dge) to cement master-level orthographic decoding and spelling logic.
A lesson focused on identifying and correcting irregular past tense verbs and irregular plural nouns. Students act as 'sentence mechanics' to diagnose and repair grammatical glitches in 15 common-error sentences.
Introduces the spelling pattern -dge for the final /j/ sound following short vowels, contrasting it with the -tch trigraph to strengthen phoneme-level auditory discrimination.
A cumulative practice and review lesson contrasting the short-vowel spelling rules (FLOSS, -ck, -tch) with VCe silent-e patterns to build master-level orthographic decoding and vowel recognition.
Introduces the spelling pattern -tch for the final /ch/ sound following short vowels, comparing and contrasting it with the -ck spelling rule for final /k/ sounds to build orthographic precision.
A comprehensive 13-week reading fluency and social-emotional learning program for second-grade readers. Features 13 themed passages focusing on self-control, self-awareness, and self-acceptance, paired with DOK 1-3 questions and a visual growth tracker.