Students learn the concept of sorting by the first letter using concrete objects and name cards. The lesson introduces the strategy of looking at the initial character to place items in A-Z order.
A set of 20 engaging writing prompts tailored for a third-grade boy's interests in baseball, cats, and sharks, featuring slide-based instruction and printable prompt cards for a monthly journal.
A hands-on science and ELA lesson where students explore mystery scents and use descriptive olfactory details to document their observations.
A foundational lesson focusing on letter-sound correspondence using visual keywords and kinesthetic hand movements. Students will practice identifying letter names, sounds, and performing specific actions to reinforce memory.
A comprehensive collection of Dolch sight word resources for Pre-Primer through 3rd Grade. Includes structured flashcards with sentences and visuals, progress trackers, and a parent guide.
An Orton-Gillingham based lesson focusing on building and decoding words with 4-5 sounds, including CCVC, CVCC, CCVCC, and digraph blends using short vowels.
A comprehensive fluency lesson focusing on one-syllable silent e words (CVCE) across word, sentence, and paragraph levels. Includes direct instruction scripts, visual aids, and student practice materials.
A Grade 1 Orton-Gillingham lesson focusing on initial consonant blends (bl, br, sl, sm, cr, dr, fr, fl) with short vowels, featuring word reading, sentence reading, and encoding practice.
A collection of high-interest reading passages about video games, designed to improve comprehension and vocabulary for early fourth graders.
A deep dive into the opening chapters of The Little Prince, focusing on the narrator's childhood perspective and his fateful meeting with the prince in the Sahara. Students will analyze academic vocabulary and practice high-level inferential thinking.
A phonics-focused lesson reviewing the vowel teams ea, ew, aw, ou, al, and au through an engaging safari-themed adventure. Students will practice identifying, sorting, and using these sounds in context.
A collection of activities focused on developing inference skills using spring-themed content for third-grade students.
A comprehensive reading comprehension lesson focusing on RI.1, RI.2, RI.3, and RI.4 standards through the lenses of Animal Adaptations and the Three Branches of Government.
A lesson focused on morphology where students deconstruct words into prefixes, bases, and suffixes to determine their meanings using a word bank formula.
Advanced word study focusing on syllable division rules, decoding strategies for 2-syllable words, and reading multisyllabic fluency.
A week of targeted CVC practice covering blending, initial and final consonant changes, and automaticity.
A series of decodable sentences and activities focusing on closed syllables, VCe patterns, r-controlled vowels, and specific glue sounds (ost, ild, ank, unk). Students will practice blending and reading these patterns in context.
A vibrant, garden-themed set of resources to help early learners distinguish between vowels and consonants. Includes a classroom poster and individual sorting cards for hands-on practice.
A set of three weekly progress monitoring probes for 2nd-grade literal comprehension, featuring both fiction and informational texts formatted as 'Case Files'.
A comprehensive progress monitoring set for vowel teams ai, ay, ee, ea, and oa. Includes student-facing reading and spelling materials along with teacher-facing scoring and dictation guides.
A 5-day intensive review of Closed, Open, Magic E, Vowel Team, Bossy R, and Consonant -le syllable types, designed for 20-minute intervention blocks.
A comprehensive phonics lesson introducing the diphthongs 'oi' and 'oy' through a fun factory-themed exploration. Students will learn the spelling patterns and rules for when to use each spelling to create the /ɔɪ/ sound.
A foundational phonics lesson focusing on identifying and reading words with the digraphs wh, sh, ch, and ck within a beach-themed narrative. Students will practice oral reading fluency and basic reading comprehension.
A first-grade lesson focused on identifying and using -ing words to describe ongoing actions through visual aids and reading.
A comprehensive lesson on using demonstrative pronouns (this, that, these, those) through the lens of museum curators managing an exhibit. Students learn to distinguish between singular/plural and near/far objects.