Summer Book Quest

A comprehensive 3rd-grade grammar unit covering essential noun, adjective, verb, and adverb suffixes. Through engaging matching, fill-in-the-blank, and sentence writing exercises, students learn to identify, decode, and use these word parts in worksheets and a workbook.

A comprehensive 3rd-grade grammar unit covering essential Greek and Latin roots: dict, duct, fect, fract, junct, struct, min, and spec. Through engaging matching, fill-in-the-blank, and sentence writing exercises, students learn to identify, decode, and use these word parts in worksheets and a workbook.

A comprehensive 3rd-grade grammar unit covering essential prefixes: un-, im-/in-/ir-, dis-, non-, re-, mis-, and pre-. Through an engaging 'Prefix Patrol' detective theme, students learn to identify, decode, and use these word parts in worksheets and cumulative review keys.

A writing-focused lesson exploring the life, career, and cultural impact of pop star Justin Bieber. Students analyze a structured fact sheet, plan their ideas using a two-column guided graphic organizer, and write a cohesive two-paragraph essay with integrated scaffolding.

An active, safari-themed Write-the-Room scavenger hunt designed specifically for struggling first-grade readers to identify and understand key nonfiction text features through movement and visual cues.

A complete toolkit for students to master the art of being an active, respectful, and constructive audience member during peer presentations. Includes audience expectations and an interactive presentation tracker.

A comprehensive foundational reading review lesson that focuses on phonics concepts from HD Word Foundations. Includes a multi-page student activity packet and a corresponding teacher answer key for diagnostic and remedial instruction.

A differentiated decoding lesson designed for 3rd-6th grade struggling readers to practice reading and spelling multisyllabic words with vowel teams, vowel-consonant-e, r-controlled, and consonant-le patterns through interactive puzzle activities.

An application-focused reading intervention lesson reinforcing ie/igh vowel teams in connected reading and spelling. Designed for high school struggling readers, this lesson integrates a cumulative long-vowel team review (ai/ay, ee/ea/ey, oa/ow/oe) and dictation tasks.

An explicit, highly scaffolded reading intervention lesson introducing long i vowel teams (ie, igh) while reviewing silent-e (i_e) through structured word sorting, guided spelling comparison, and phrase reading.

An application-focused reading intervention lesson reinforcing oa/ow/oe vowel teams in connected reading and spelling. Designed for high school struggling readers, this lesson integrates a cumulative long-vowel team review (ai/ay, ee/ea/ey) and dictation tasks.

Students read an adapted news article about Jen Rubino, a teenager who founded Cards for Hospitalized Kids to bring hope and joy to patients across the country. They practice identifying main ideas and details.

Students read an adapted news article about a teenager who created school "care lockers" to supply classmates with free daily hygiene essentials and school supplies. They practice identifying main ideas and details.

An explicit, highly scaffolded reading intervention lesson introducing long o vowel teams (oa, ow, oe) while reviewing silent-e (o_e) through structured word sorting, guided spelling comparison, and phrase reading.

Students read an adapted news article about Yash Gupta, a teenager who started a nonprofit to provide glasses to children in need. They practice identifying the main idea and supporting details through text-dependent comprehension questions.

A comprehensive mini-lesson bundle designed to teach students the crucial rules of indentation, paragraph transitions, formatting dialogue, and avoiding common academic essay pitfalls. Uses a retro-arcade 'Indent Invaders' theme to keep students engaged in structural writing mechanics.

An application-focused reading intervention lesson reinforcing ee/ea/ey vowel teams in connected reading and spelling. Designed for high school struggling readers, this lesson contrasts vowel teams with the silent-e (e_e) pattern and reviews previous long a spellings.

A comprehensive, multi-sensory phonics lesson targeting short 'a' CVC words. Includes interactive slides, a structured lesson plan, hands-on workstation activities, and baseline tracking tools designed for early readers.

An explicit, highly scaffolded reading intervention lesson introducing long e vowel teams (ee, ea, ey) while reviewing long a vowel teams (ai, ay) through structured word sorting, guided reading, and spelling rules.

An application-focused reading intervention lesson reinforcing ai/ay vowel teams in connected reading and spelling. Designed for high school struggling readers, this lesson incorporates a robust r-controlled vowel review and advanced word sorting.

An explicit, highly scaffolded reading intervention lesson focusing on the long a spelling patterns ai and ay. Designed for high school struggling readers, this lesson contrasts these new vowel teams with the familiar silent-e (a_e) pattern through structured decoding, word analysis, and writing tasks.

A formal mastery assessment designed to track high school students' decoding accuracy, spelling, and phonetic discrimination across all major r-controlled vowel families.

An engaging, detective-themed reading comprehension and summarizing lesson about the mysterious axolotl. Students analyze high-interest scientific facts, complete a 'Clue Collector' graphic organizer, and compile their findings into a final summary report.

A dynamic phonics lesson centered around V/V syllable division. Students learn to spot and divide adjacent vowels that split into separate syllables using a fun, competitive Bingo game.

A phonics and morphology lesson featuring a bingo game to practice decoding and decomposing multisyllabic words with split-vowel bases and affixes. Students analyze prefixes, base words, and suffixes while reinforcing vocabulary definitions.

A cooperative and engaging reading comprehension game for Little House in the Big Woods (pages 1-60). This lesson includes a Teacher Call Sheet with chapter-specific clues and four unique, beautifully designed, print-ready student Bingo cards.