Focuses on story sequencing, plot events, and past tense verbs. Students retell key bakery events and identify digraph/trigraph spelling patterns (ck, tch), plurals (-es), and double consonants (-ll, -ss).
Discover diphthongs 'oi' and 'oy' (sounding like /oy/). Students explore a lively toy workshop where they find, spell, and sort treasure coins and clever toys.
Navigate the long O sound spelled with vowel teams 'oa' and 'ow'. Students join a brave goat traveling down an old country road, collecting words along the journey.
Explore the long E sound spelled with vowel teams 'ee' and 'ea'. Students dive deep into the ocean to meet colorful creatures and unlock spelling treasures.
Master the long A sound spelled with vowel teams 'ai' and 'ay'. Students follow a rainy day adventure, hunt for target words, and build their spelling skills.
Focuses on identifying central message, lessons learned, and illustrations. Students explore the value of honesty and teamwork while practicing welded sounds (-nk, -ng) and inflectional endings.
Focuses on analyzing character traits and setting using Book 1 of Harriet Whitehorn's series. Students identify character roles and map initial digraphs (sh, ch, th, wh) using bakery vocabulary.
A collection of seasonal weekly progress trackers designed for first-grade students to monitor their Nonsense Word Fluency (NWF) progress across Fall, Winter, and Spring. Each tracker features a space-themed bar graph with targeted goal lines of 10, 17, and 22 words per minute respectively, complete with motivational reflection zones.
An interactive, movement-based phonics lesson where 1st graders hunt for diphthongs (au, aw, ou, ow) around the room, matching picture clues to spellings.
Synthesizes comprehension and oral/written language. Students use cause-and-effect language ('because', 'consequently', 'as a result') and transitional sequencers to retell the story climax and analyze how the friendly bear saved the day.
Targets expressive grammar in context. Students map and describe the runaway camper's wild path using precise spatial prepositions (e.g., down, past, over, through) and dynamic action/movement verbs, constructing high-quality descriptive sentences.