A comprehensive school-wide literacy program and implementation toolkit. Includes a 40-week master quest index, printable student submission slips, and a high-impact library bulletin board poster.
An exploration of Andrea Davis Pinkney's 'The Red Pencil'. Amira navigates the trauma of Kalma refugee camp, finding her voice and healing through her red pencil, secret nighttime reading lessons, and a powerful shared release of grief with her mother.
A comprehensive progress monitoring and practice toolkit designed to track and accelerate decoding of one-syllable short vowel words containing digraphs, bonus letters, and glued sounds.
A foundational lesson containing frameworks and evaluative tools to support rigorous, evidence-based collaborative debate. It focuses on elevating academic argument quality, critical thinking, and respectful civil dialogue across different subjects and grade levels.
A differentiated lesson focused on character analysis. Students learn to hunt for textual clues and combine them with personal schema to uncover character traits and deep-seated motivations, structured across three escalating levels of task complexity (Fact Finding, Trait Tracking, and Motive Mapping).
An exploration of Chapters 31-36 of 'Knead'. Alba works desperately to save Toni's traditional Barcelona bakery, confronting painful family history and social class barriers, before pitching a revolutionary, pun-filled new business plan to her grandmother.
An exploration of Part III of Marjorie Agosín's 'The Road to Butterfly Hill'. Celeste returns to Chile after the fall of the dictatorship, reconnects with her family and friends on Butterfly Hill, and embarks on a courageous journey south with Cristóbal to find her parents.
A comprehensive middle school ELA reading unit focused on internet safety and digital citizenship. Includes a two-page paired reading passage (informational and narrative), a four-page standard-aligned comprehension assessment covering 12 standards (RI.1-4, RI.8, RL.1-4, RL.8, L.4-5) plus context-clues, and a complete teacher's answer key with standard alignments and detailed rationales.
An engaging third-grade grammar lesson focusing on subject and object pronouns (he, she, they, him, her, them). Students join the Pronoun Patrol to solve pronoun mysteries, replacing heavy nouns with lightweight pronouns.
A study of Chapters 31-36 of Elsie Chapman's 'All The Ways Home'. Students explore Kaede's search for identity, his complex relationship with his brother Shoma, his father's painful abandonment, and his desperate choice to steal Shoma's bass to find his father in Sapporo.
A cohesive, scaffolded writing lesson aligned with CKLA Grade 3 Unit 5 (Solar System and Astronomy). Students use high-interest graphic organizers and sentence starters to write a three-paragraph informative piece about a day in the life of an astronaut on the International Space Station.
A hands-on spelling and early phonics lesson focused on key vocabulary words. Students practice recognition, tracing, and sentence application of common short vowel words.
An end-of-3rd-grade reader's theater play and companion phonics worksheet starring Mariel, Maria, and Eshwar as they find a dusty time capsule behind the library bookshelf. Focuses on glued sounds (all, an, am, ang, ung, ing, ong, unk, ink, onk, ank) and closed syllable exceptions (old, ild, ind, olt, ost).
An end-of-3rd-grade reader's theater play and companion phonics worksheet starring Ana Beatriz and Kenia as they clean out their messy desks and find a hilarious surprise. Focuses on CVC short-vowel phonics rules to support beginning and multilingual readers.
An end-of-3rd-grade reader's theater play and companion phonics worksheet focusing on multi-syllable silent e, open/closed, and closed/closed syllable types. Features equal parts for four characters who must solve a hilarious classroom robot mishap.
A lesson covering Chapters 32-36 of Aisha Saeed's 'Amal Unbound'. Students analyze Amal's bittersweet visit home, her realization of Nasreen Baji's gilded cage, and the unexpected opportunity to attend the new literacy center.
A spelling and phonics lesson for grades 4-6 focusing on the /sh/ sound spelled with 'ci' (as in special) and 'ti' (as in patient). Students explore patterns, organize words in detective-style case files, and apply their knowledge through interactive word hunts and spelling activities.
A whimsical and interactive 3rd-grade lesson introducing the concept of point of view by exploring author's point of view versus the student's own point of view through fun real-world debates.
A lesson designed to guide students in identifying, analyzing, and synthesizing the central idea of informational texts. Features a visual anchor chart and a supporting teacher facilitation guide.
A phonics-focused lesson for second grade exploring the 'oy' diphthong. It includes an engaging two-page story about a royal prince named Roy who finds a magical toy, followed by comprehension questions and a themed word search worksheet.
A phonics-focused lesson for second grade exploring the 'igh' trigraph. It includes an engaging story about Sir Dwight, a brave but silly knight who is afraid of heights, followed by comprehension questions and a themed word search worksheet.
An ELA lesson analyzing character perspectives, family sacrifice, and empathy in the pivotal chapter 'The Visit' from Wendelin Van Draanen's novel Flipped. Students explore basic comprehension and deep perspective shifts through rigorous multiple-choice and text-evidence short answers.
A high-stakes digital safety escape room focused on identifying online scams, recognizing manipulative dark patterns, and protecting personal data. Recruits analyze active verb voices, linking verbs, ellipses punctuation, and deceptive tones to decode the final alert.