Students board the Vowel Team Express to master the Long E sound. This lesson uses a fast-paced train-themed video and a competitive spelling relay to help 2nd graders differentiate between ee, ea, ey, ei, and ie spellings.
Students synthesize information from multiple texts to create a comprehensive comparison and write a final evidentiary paragraph.
Students learn about hurricanes and practice organizing information into a structured paragraph with a clear topic sentence, supporting details, and a conclusion.
Students explore the science of tornadoes while focusing on identifying key details and mastering domain-specific vocabulary.
A comprehensive practice session for English 1 EOC revising and editing, featuring a medical-themed approach to 'curing' common writing ailments like poor sentence structure, tense issues, and punctuation errors.
This lesson prepares students for the English 1 EOC exam by analyzing a poem and an informational text about nature and ecosystems. It includes test-style questions, a short constructed response, and a collaborative speaking activity.
A collection of short stories designed for verbal story retell, featuring story grammar elements and inferencing questions. Includes stories with kids, animals, and fantasy creatures at two different complexity levels.
A comprehensive lesson focused on teaching the silent e (VCE) rule through the 'Magic E Academy' theme, including visual instruction and hands-on practice.
A comprehensive lesson on narrative sentence variation focusing on varied beginnings, sentence combining, length modulation, and descriptive clauses. Students move from identifying monotone rhythms to crafting dynamic, flowing prose.
A series of three ELA homework assignments based on the story 'Oakley’s Azure Acorn,' focusing on phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and grammar.
Synthesizing the relationship between point of view and plot. Students use their annotations to respond to a short constructed response prompt about how the omniscient perspective impacts the selection's development.
Diving deeper into figurative language including metaphors, personification, and situational irony. Students finish the story and evaluate the symbolic significance of the 'open window' and 'heart trouble'.
Introduction to 3rd person omniscient point of view and sensory imagery. Students begin reading the text and analyze how Chopin uses the setting outside the open window to reflect Louise Mallard's internal shift.
A 20-minute mini-lesson introducing students to the basic structure of a simple sentence, focusing on identifying the subject (who or what) and the predicate (what is happening).
A comprehensive set of materials for a high school Open House, including a presentation and a parent/guardian support handout for the Reading and Learning Center English class.
A lesson focused on decoding and dividing multisyllabic words with closed syllables through a hands-on cut-and-paste activity.
A creative writing lesson for middle school students exploring empathy and perspective-taking through the medium of internal monologues. Using a poignant animated video about cyberbullying, students analyze character motivations and the impact of digital actions.
A comprehensive lesson for 2nd-3rd graders on decoding unfamiliar words using context clues, prefixes, suffixes, and root words, all framed within an engaging detective theme.
A final project where students choose their own topic to write a complete 'Maker Manual'.
Students learn to add 'Pro Tips' and warnings to make their instructions more helpful for the reader.
Focuses on the importance of listing all necessary materials and tools before starting a procedure.
Students practice breaking down familiar tasks into clear steps with matching illustrations.
Students learn to identify procedural writing and use transition words (first, next, then, finally) to order steps.
A comprehensive lesson for second graders to identify the main idea and key details in texts about pollinators. Students will explore how bees, butterflies, and other creatures help plants grow.
A quiz assessing phonogram patterns (oke/ake), double consonant endings, and simple/compound sentence construction for a diverse range of primary reading levels.
A lesson focused on identifying the 'gist' of short informational texts using a detective-themed approach to help students synthesize key information into a single sentence.
A comprehensive lesson where 8th graders learn to construct persuasive essays using an 'architectural' framework, focusing on thesis foundations, structural claims, and evidentiary reinforcement.
A preparatory lesson exploring the historical, social, and cultural landscape of the 1920s to provide context for 'The Great Gatsby'. Students rotate through stations covering the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, the Harlem Renaissance, and major social shifts.
An investigation into the rich symbolism present in Chapter 3 during one of Gatsby's lavish parties. Students decode the meaning behind objects like the library books and the yellow car to understand the era's superficiality.
A lesson focused on identifying and reading open syllables in 2nd grade, featuring a robot-themed reading passage and comprehension activities.