Blast off into space to navigate tricky celestial words with double meanings. Students apply their context clue mastery to outer space vocabulary, solving words like ruler, patient, plant, well, pitch, iron, note, and second.

Treasure hunt through the wild rainforest, tracking down words with multiple meanings in nature and daily life. Students decode words like stable, beam, pupil, chest, record, spring, bank, and band using sentence context clues.

Voyage into the ocean depths to investigate words that have dual meanings under the sea and on land. High-ability 2nd graders will analyze context clues to decode words like bill, seal, check, bolt, organ, racket, scale, and palm.

Students trek through a ancient jungle to evaluate an author's argument on archeological preservation, uncovering reasons and deciphering multiple-meaning words like ruler, patient, plant, and well.

Students dive into an underwater adventure text to identify the author's claim about ocean conservation while exploring multiple-meaning words like bill, seal, check, and bolt.

Synthesize everything learned about characteristics, behaviors, and connections to create the ultimate character story map.

Establish "connections" between character traits and their behaviors, understanding why characters act the way they do in a narrative.

Investigate character "behavior," examining how actions, choices, and reactions drive a story forward.

Dive into the core term "characteristic" as students search for physical and personality traits that make a story character unique.

Introduce the concept of narrating and the key term "describe" as students join the Story Detective Agency to examine how storytellers share details about characters and settings.

A second-grade grammar lesson focused on mastering parts of speech (nouns, verbs, and adjectives) through hilarious word-fill activities. Students learn definitions, sort words, and complete a collaborative 3-page Mad Lib story.

A third-grade reading and grammar lesson focused on identifying and understanding common contractions. Students read an engaging 5-page story about Zorb, an alien visiting Earth, and complete practice activities that reinforce how contractions are formed.

Focuses on reading and writing 'ow' words in context with an adventure story, sentence-building activities, and camp graduation.

Focuses on encoding single-syllable 'ow' words with spelling dictation, word-building, and an interactive wilderness map-labeling task.