A high-interest summer reading passage and printable board game designed for high-level first graders. This lesson focuses on developing context clue skills and advanced vocabulary acquisition through collaborative, game-based learning.
A playful, multi-day grammar adventure designed specifically for early learners aged 5-6. Young 'gardeners' learn to plant, grow, and nurture basic sentences by mastering uppercase letters, naming words, action words, and punctuation seeds.
A comprehensive first-grade lesson designed to launch a summer reading program. Students explore various book genres, set personalized goals, and build excitement using a high-seas adventure theme to combat the summer slide.
A 1-page teacher facilitator guide and answer key. It includes an instructional questioning framework for teaching context clues, full answer keys for the student log and game cards, and differentiation strategies.
A dual-module news broadcast unit where students learn speaking, scriptwriting, and filming skills. Module 1 masters core phonics standards (vowel teams and past-tense ed pronunciation), while Module 2 develops essential Social-Emotional Learning skills including reading the room and identifying emotional Zones of Regulation.
Create a lesson for the clueless word fill-in crossword puzzle.
A 2-page printable board game for student pairs. Page 1 features a colorful "Sun Safari" path game board. Page 2 includes 8 printable context clue comprehension cards with identical selectable answers for students to cut out, alongside simple gameplay rules.
A math place value unit focusing on identifying digit values through the thousands place with interactive detective-themed worksheets and puzzles.
Students discover sentence-ending punctuation as 'stop seeds' and capital letters as 'tall trees.' They learn how to start and stop sentences to keep their garden neat and tidy.
A structured reading intervention sequence at Douglas School combining targeted phonic lessons with the multisensory Nessy online literacy system.
Students explore action words (verbs) as climbing vines that bring life to naming seeds. Through garden-themed exercises, they identify physical actions and match them with naming words.
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.
Students discover naming words (nouns) for people, places, and things. Using a playful garden theme, they learn to classify these seeds as the essential building blocks for growing sentences.
