Verb Action Studio

A high-energy, performance-based lesson where students use physical movement and charades to distinguish between action verbs and linking verbs. Inspired by the 'Movement means Action' rule, students act out sentences to test grammatical functions.

Verb Action Studio

Poetry Pathways

A comprehensive 4-week poetry curriculum designed for students requiring high structure and visual supports. It covers diverse poetry types (Haiku, Color, Acrostic, Couplets, Concrete, Free Verse, and Metaphor/Simile) with scaffolds like word banks, sentence frames, and graphic organizers.

V Lundgren

Novel Promo Blueprint

A scaffolded unit designed to help 5th-grade developing and emerging students create a mock e-commerce book listing for a novel they have read. This lesson breaks down complex writing tasks like summaries, quotes, and editorial reviews into structured, bite-sized templates with built-in sentence frames.

Catherine Onessimo

Summary Sketchpad Worksheet

A 1-page student-facing draft worksheet designed for Grade 5 developing writers. It provides generous writing space (2 dashed lines per section) and clear color-coded sentence starters for each part of the Somebody (Red), Wanted (Yellow), But (Blue), So (Orange), Then (Green) summary framework.

Catherine Onessimo

Poetry Pathways

V Lundgren

Appreciation Station

A complete end-of-the-year thank-you card crafting lesson. Students brainstorm specific memories and acts of kindness, draft their messages, and assemble beautifully styled, fold-in-half appreciation cards for their teachers.

Melissa Premo

Thank You Templates Worksheet

A set of three creative thank-you note templates including a traditional letter, an acrostic poem, and printable postcards for Teacher Appreciation Week.

isaac_daigle

Paragraph Architects

An intensive intervention lesson designed to help struggling readers master main idea identification using hands-on, color-coded highlighting strategies. Students learn to dismantle paragraph structures like blueprint architects, physically separating the 'roof' (main idea) from the 'supporting pillars' (details).

Daniela Rodrigues

Giant Dreams

An interactive, SPED-friendly novel study of Roald Dahl's 'The BFG', tailored for upper elementary students (grades 3-5). Features simplified summaries, visual layouts, decoded BFG vocabulary ('gobbledegook'), and interactive class discussion prompts.

Lenny

Listing Launcher Teacher Guide

A 2-page instructional guide for teachers containing step-by-step facilitation plans, modeling guides for the sentence frames, a completed exemplar based on the novel Holes, and an asset-based 5th-grade writing rubric.

Catherine Onessimo

Adaptation Investigators

Weekly ELA homework packets focused on high-interest animal adaptations for elementary students (K-5). Each packet contains four nights of structured work: Night 1 (Reading), Night 2 (Vocabulary), Night 3 (Comprehension Activity), and Night 4 (Comprehension Questions), customized with visual icons, sentence frames, and simplified tracking guides for varying reading levels.

Julie Johns

Quest Homecoming Feast

The celebratory final meeting of the book clubs, designed as a festive victory banquet. Students commemorate their protagonist's return through a grand ceremonial toast, active crossover badge trading with other groups, and a high-interest 5-minute teaser of the Hero's Journey mapping project.

Tasha Wigmore

Listing Launcher Slides

A 6-slide instructional presentation to guide students through each section of the Listing Launcher Worksheet. Features colorful step-by-step examples, visual marketing templates, and modeled writing strategies tailored for Grade 5 learners.

Verb Action Studio