Soft G Signals

A structured lesson focusing on the engineering of video games and robotics. Students read an engaging, tech-themed article and use a color-coded TS-D1-D2-D3 graphic organizer to write a cohesive summary paragraph.

A creative narrative writing lesson that guides students through structural comic book creation, character design, and panel-by-panel storytelling using visual templates.

A beginner-friendly phonics and handwriting lesson focused on standard lowercase CVC words (job, jog, hop, lot, lug, run, big, bag, but, get, let). Includes vocabulary cards, handwriting worksheets with guidelines, and sentence completion practice.

A comprehensive 3rd-grade grammar unit covering essential noun, adjective, verb, and adverb suffixes. Through engaging matching, fill-in-the-blank, and sentence writing exercises, students learn to identify, decode, and use these word parts in worksheets and a workbook.

A comprehensive 3rd-grade grammar unit covering essential Greek and Latin roots: dict, duct, fect, fract, junct, struct, min, and spec. Through engaging matching, fill-in-the-blank, and sentence writing exercises, students learn to identify, decode, and use these word parts in worksheets and a workbook.

A comprehensive 3rd-grade grammar unit covering essential prefixes: un-, im-/in-/ir-, dis-, non-, re-, mis-, and pre-. Through an engaging 'Prefix Patrol' detective theme, students learn to identify, decode, and use these word parts in worksheets and cumulative review keys.

A comprehensive annotation toolkit based on Jason Reynolds' novel Look Both Ways. Students analyze character development, author's craft, thematic motifs, and make active reading connections as they explore the spaces between school and home.

A structured lesson focusing on the engineering of video games and robotics. Students read an engaging, tech-themed article and use a color-coded TS-D1-D2-D3 graphic organizer to write a cohesive summary paragraph.

An immersive introductory lesson on active text annotation, focusing on identifying literary devices, analyzing author's craft, and tracking characterization. Students learn to use a unified code of symbols to turn reading from a passive activity into an active dialogue with the text.

A structured phonics lesson focused on encoding sentences with digraphs, consonant blends (beginning and ending), and hard vs. soft C. Includes rule-based worksheets with spelling grids and self-monitoring checklists.

Trace the protagonist's development from a compliant citizen to an awakened rebel. Students map the critical turning points, alliances, and sacrifices that drive resistance against the regime, applying these insights to their book club novels.

Analyze how dystopian regimes maintain authority through propaganda, censorship, and manufactured fear. Students contrast real propaganda techniques with fictional manifestations in their novels to decode the author's underlying real-world critiques.

Explore how dystopian authors build oppressive societies using key tropes such as environmental collapse, intense surveillance, and the systematic erasure of history. Students analyze their book club novels to map these elements.

An immersive, high-energy introductory hook lesson for Charming as a Verb that engages rising 10th-grade summer school students through NYC hustle culture, the social psychology of 'charm', and an author interview on performance anxiety and self-belief.

A targeted, engaging grammar lesson focusing on mastering plural endings and verb tenses (-ed and -ing) through the theme of a mechanical workshop. Students diagnose and repair grammatical errors to improve their sentence-level writing.

An engaging lesson on insect collective nouns and terminology, featuring a word search, crossword, and hands-on matching and writing activities exploring how bugs gather in groups.

A comprehensive phonics lesson exploring the spelling rules for the /j/ sound: 'j' at the beginning, 'dge' after short vowels, and 'ge' after long vowels or consonants. Includes multi-sensory materials, explicit guides, visual slides, and leveled activities.

A lesson targeting STAAR-aligned word-meaning strategies, including dictionary skills, context clues types (contrast, definition, cause/effect), and analyzing foreign words in English. Includes cloze-style guided notes, a practice worksheet bundle, and a teacher answer key.

A reading comprehension lesson focused on singer-songwriter Zach Bryan, teaching students how to use context clues to find the meaning of vocabulary words and write responses in complete sentences using sentence starters.

A comprehension assessment focusing on main idea, key details, and context clues. The student worksheet features a side-by-side passage and question layout to reduce tracking demands and support 4th-5th grade readability with 6th-grade rigor.

A scaffolded proofreading and editing lesson designed for high school special education students to master sentence-level punctuation, capitalization, subject-verb agreement, homophones, and mixed grammatical errors. Includes a structured student workbook and a comprehensive teacher guide with a progress tracker.