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 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.
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.
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 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 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 complete phonics lesson focusing on decoding and spelling words with 'au' and 'aw' diphthongs through an engaging 6-board Bingo game, master word checklist, and printable cut-out caller cards.
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.
A reading comprehension lesson centered on outer space, teaching beginning fourth graders how to identify main ideas, supporting details, and use context clues for vocabulary with large-print text and visual highlights.
An engaging, non-graded project-based lesson for Week 3/4 (3/4 of the way through the books). Students design an Emblem of Resilience for their protagonist, followed by an independent, highly structured Desk Gallery Walk and Discussion Protocol using PBL peer inquiry.
A student-friendly ELA lesson focused on writing impactful, correctly punctuated dialogue with character action beats.
A student-friendly ELA lesson focused on developing a story's conflict by identifying its type (internal vs. external) and mapping out climbing events.
A student-friendly ELA lesson focused on writing strong story openings (expositions) using hook strategies, character reveals, setting, and mood.
A student-friendly ELA lesson focused on converting a Story Mountain into a detailed scene-by-scene Plot Timeline, wrapping up Week 1 of Narrative Writing.
A complete, student-friendly 5th-grade grammar lesson on past, present, and future perfect verb tenses, along with identifying and correcting improper verb tense shifts. Includes instructional slides, cloze notes, a practice worksheet, vertical desk anchor charts, and center-ready task cards.
Students use the five senses and figurative language (similes, metaphors, personification) to write a vivid, immersive narrative setting description.
Students learn the 5-stage Story Mountain structure (Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution) and plan writer's craft elements, including a line of dialogue and a focused craft move for their narrative.
A structured writing lesson for 4th-grade English learners (WIDA Levels 1-2) to express their opinions about school uniforms. It provides scaffolded vocabulary, sentence frames, and a simplified rubric to guide and assess their progress.
A reading comprehension lesson focused on active sports-themed stories, teaching beginning fourth graders how to identify and analyze cause-and-effect relationships with visual scaffolds and text-based evidence.
A comprehensive unit-planning and gifted enrichment lesson containing administrative, pacing, and curriculum adaptation maps for teaching Amplify 6G ELA to high-ability learners.
A reading comprehension lesson based on the real-world charity 'Cards for Hospitalized Kids'. Students analyze the author's purpose and perspective behind the organization's founding and its ongoing mission to spread joy.
An introductory lesson bundle that teaches students how to write strong Short Constructed Responses (SCR) using the RACE strategy. Includes a comprehensive teacher guide, anchor chart, guided student handouts, and a high-interest nonfiction practice passage with writing organizers.
An advanced spelling lesson exploring the complex 'capable of being' suffixes: -able and -ible. Students learn rule-based decision paths to master these high-frequency adjectives, supported by a 50-minute pacing guide and extra practice sheets.
A lesson exploring coordinating conjunctions (and, but, or, so) through the lens of entomology. Students compare and contrast insects while building complete, compound sentences.
A foundational phonics lesson targeting short vowel identification and CVC word construction using engaging visuals and hands-on matching and writing exercises.
A lesson dedicated to breaking down words into their root structures, semantic relationships, and contextual nuances to build deep, permanent vocabulary comprehension.
A targeted small-group intervention lesson featuring a heart-part flashcard deck, multiple bingo variants, a master tracker, and an engaging home-connection packet.
A reading comprehension lesson centered on a spooky, engaging story about two friends exploring their school after dark. Students practice reading fluency, literal comprehension, and inferential analysis.
A reading comprehension lesson focused on making inferences. Students will learn to combine clues from the text with their own background knowledge to solve mini-mysteries and answer deep comprehension questions.
An engaging reading comprehension lesson for fifth graders exploring the fascinating history, mechanism, and origin of grandfather clocks. Students will discover how the anchor escapement and a popular song shaped these iconic timepieces.