A step-by-step lesson on summarizing stories using the Beginning, Middle, and End (BME) framework, specially scaffolded for emerging readers and students with IEP accommodations.
A high-interest figurative language lesson using real quotes from Chapters 31-40 of Byron Graves's novel Rez Ball, tailored for 7th-grade ELA resource room students. Includes a visual reference guide, matching task cards, a cut-and-paste sorting sheet, and a teacher key.
A comprehensive 7th-grade literary analysis and annotation unit based on Gary Soto's short story 'Seventh Grade'. Students track character development, plot, and themes while practicing active questioning and drawing text-based inferences.
A close-reading lesson exploring conflict and setting in Gary Paulsen's Woodsong. Students analyze how the brutal winter environment drives the plot and shapes the central conflict.
An active, engaging vocabulary lesson centered around Synonyms and Antonyms using a high-energy Bingo game. Students learn to quickly identify word pairs through a detective-themed visual presentation, structured word banks, unique bingo boards, calling cards, and independent practice task cards.
An interactive, whole-class game lesson designed to help students identify abstract themes in stories. Students use visual cues, clues, and sentence starters to uncover and articulate hidden thematic messages.
An engaging lowercase letter identification lab focusing on m, n, t, b, f, u, and i. Students build visual discrimination skills and complete fun puzzles to cement letter recognition.
A rigorous, mock-EOG diagnostic exam featuring high-interest informational and literary passages paired with 25 standard-aligned practice questions.
A third-grade ELA lesson where students learn to identify nouns and basic personal pronouns through an exciting space adventure narrative.
An assessment and supporting materials for finishing The Westing Game, tailored for 3rd and 4th grade students who benefit from visual supports, word banks, and chunked layouts.
A summer-themed grammar review lesson for 3rd graders. Students explore nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs through beach-themed identification, categorization, and creative writing exercises.
A collection of accommodated 2nd grade DIBELS MAZE comprehension practice worksheets with enlarged text and spacing to support student success.
A 3rd-grade grammar lesson where students become Word Detectives to identify adjectives in everyday sentences, map their relationships to nouns, and use descriptive words to crack creative writing cases.
A comprehensive, nature-themed phonics lesson designed for third-grade multilingual learners to master common vowel digraphs. Students practice reading fluency, word decoding, and spelling using interactive slides, phonics task cards, decodable passages, and guided worksheets.
A first-grade friendly adaptation of Chapter 6 of Katherine Applegate's 'Crenshaw', using simplified, highly accessible language and extensive emoji picture-support to aid reading comprehension, accompanied by a student-facing multiple-choice worksheet and a teacher answer key.
Students explore the book's resolution, where the physical artwork merges their worlds, and learn to write compound sentences with the conjunction 'but' to highlight contrasting actions or emotions before creating their final story narrative.
Students focus on the collaborative drawing of the fantasy world where the grandfather is a Thai warrior and the boy is a wizard, and learn to combine ideas into simple compound sentences using the conjunction 'and'.
Students identify how the boy and his grandfather use drawing to communicate when spoken words fail, focusing on capital letters, full stops, and basic speech bubble text to describe characters' feelings.