Sound Sleuth Squad

A 5-week foundational writing intervention for secondary emerging English learners focused on school and community themes, featuring syllable and affix encoding, 2 sentence dictations per lesson, sentence parts and building, and culminating in two-sentence question responses with reasoning.

Lesson 5 is a culminating writing synthesis workshop where secondary emerging ELs independently construct a 2-to-3 sentence academic response with question answering and reasoning, featuring cumulative syllable and affix dictation, checklist, and rubric.

A professional reference sheet providing three polished, grammatically sound options for a literacy course discussion board prompt regarding the importance of teaching reading and spelling to mastery, along with key pedagogical rationales.

A comprehensive small-group reading intervention sequence targeting Indiana Standard RC.1 for students approaching proficiency on ILEARN Checkpoint 1. Across multiple targeted units, students master explicit detail citation, main idea synthesis, text-grounded inferences, and two-part evidence items.

Lesson 4 instructs secondary emerging writers to build a 2-sentence response (Sentence 1 answers the question; Sentence 2 explains or provides reasoning with 'Because' or 'This is because'), alongside advanced affix encoding (-tion, -ment, -ly) and 2 sentence dictations.

A 2-page print-ready background reader for Lesson 5 featuring prominent Lesson 5 header labeling, an informational text on graduation and future career pathways on Page 1, and an aligned 5-word cloze reading passage on Page 2.

A 3-day narrative writing unit for first graders that guides students through planning characters and setting, drafting a three-part fictional tale with sentence starters, and editing conventions.

Lesson 3 teaches students how to restate questions to construct complete single-sentence academic answers, practice suffix affix encoding (-er, -or, -ful, -less) via syllable dictation, and complete 2 sentence dictations alongside informational reading.

A 2-page print-ready culminating student writing project sheet for Lesson 5 featuring prominent Lesson 5 header labeling, warm-up question response, cumulative syllable/affix dictation, 2 sentence dictations, two choice pathways, 2-sentence drafting organizer, published handwriting lines, checklist, and scoring rubric.

A foundational multi-day early literacy unit that guides early learners through auditory rhyme awareness, rhyme recognition, and word family sorting. Students progress from listening for matching ending sounds to spotting rhyming pairs and solving rhyming riddles.

Lesson 2 guides students to expand basic sentences by adding prepositional details (where and when), practice prefix affix encoding (re-, un-, dis-) with syllable dictation, complete 2 sentence dictations, and review answering questions in full sentences.

A 2-page print-ready teacher guide for Lesson 5 featuring prominent Lesson 5 header labeling, the culminating workshop routine, cumulative affix dictation scripts, 2-sentence dictation routines, conferencing prompts, and a comprehensive 4-point ELPA21 writing rubric.