In this lesson, leaders will create their own fall-themed story stones and use them to craft and share narratives. This hands-on workshop fosters creativity, teamwork, and storytelling skills through a festive autumn lens.
A 3-lesson phonics sequence focused on teaching Vowel-Consonant-e (V-e) syllables to late first and second graders. Using a whimsical 'Word Wizards' theme, it covers foundations, vowel expansion, and blends/digraphs, complete with guides, slides, practice pages, and assessments.
A foundational phonics lesson on continuous blending using words that start with continuant consonants (f, l, m, n, r, s, v, z) and end with stop consonants (p, t, k, b, d, g). Includes teacher scripts, slides, sorting centers, blending task cards, and decodable stories.
A robust instructional guide for educators, outlining the science behind continuous blending, a script for direct instruction modeling, common student errors, and complete answer keys for the student materials.
A phonics intervention unit for high school readers focusing on short oo patterns, sound contrasts, and spelling application.
Lesson 57: Introducing au, aw, augh for the /aw/ sound, with a brief exception spotlight on ea = /ĕ/ and a after w = /ŏ/.
High-quality decodable reading passages focusing on CVC words with continuous-to-stop consonants. Includes fluency star tracker checklists, interactive word hunts, and simple reading comprehension checks with dotted writing lines.
A comprehensive 5-day phonics breakout sequence where students complete daily independent spelling missions to crack codes. Covering CVC, Silent E, Digraphs/Blends, R-controlled vowels, and Vowel Teams, each day represents a new adventure challenge.
Lesson 56: Consolidating and applying Unit 7 vowel teams in phrases, sentences, dictation, and connected text while maintaining active recall of prior long-vowel teams.
Hands-on center sorting activity featuring 4 colorful sorting mats (for final stop sounds -p, -t, -d, -g) and 16 cut-out CVC word cards with continuous blending slider helpers.
A foundational vocabulary and morphology unit designed specifically for high school newcomer ESL students. It focuses on breaking down unfamiliar English words into high-frequency prefixes, suffixes, and root words using heavy visual aids, scaffolded sentence stems, and highly collaborative activities.
Lesson 55: Syllable division with vowel teams, reviewing oo /ʊ/, oo /uː/, and ew/ui/ue /uː/, while keeping vowel-team syllables intact.
Printable continuous blending task cards (8 total) featuring a visual slider design with tracking lines. Students stretch the continuant consonant and vowel, snap to the final stop sound, and circle the matching picture from three options.
