An encoding assessment focused on welded sounds (-ng and -nk families) through pictures and context clues. Students write independently to demonstrate phonics mastery.
A comprehensive diagnostic assessment sequence designed for the second week of first grade. Spanning two days, it evaluates Kindergarten readiness and first-grade baseline performance across English, Phonics, Writing, Math, and Science in structured 45-minute sessions.
A 2nd-grade reading-focused pull-out lesson for Multilingual Learners. All objectives are anchored in the Reading Domain, focusing on decoding adjectives, cross-linguistic cognate recognition, and text-based character inferences. Includes a visual anchor chart, bilingual graphic organizers, and a reading-based assessment.
A 2-page visual support tool. Page 1 is a classroom-ready reading anchor chart helping students use adjectives and bilingual cognates to decode character emotions. Page 2 is a printable desk-mat reference with visual emojis, vocabulary guides, and prediction sentence starters.
An engaging introductory phonics unit teaching first-grade students to identify, read, and write short and long vowel sounds with silent magic 'e'.
A rapid-fire, high-energy 15-minute ESL lesson for 1st graders focusing on animal movement verbs (slither, glide, paddle, swim, fly, crawl, leap, survive) and comparing baby animals to their mothers using scaffolded sentence frames.
A 2-page bilingual graphic organizer. Page 1 contains a cognate word-sorting grid and a 'shades of meaning' activity comparing happy, contento, and alegre. Page 2 features a visual 'Name Jar' character portrait canvas with scaffolded dual-language sentence frames.
A 10-lesson Stage 1 Year 2 English Component B program based on the book 'Luna Roo' by Adam Jackson and Adrian Lloyd. The sequence explicitly teaches simple and compound sentences enriched with descriptive adjectives focused on Luna's outback soccer matches, animal teammates, and dusty playing fields.
A comprehensive progress monitoring kit for English Language Learners (ELLs) across all four core language domains. Includes step-by-step teacher instructions, a printable class tracking matrix, a student self-monitoring journal, and quick formative assessment rubrics.
A 3-page printable assessment and teacher guide revised to explicitly display the newly specified reading content, language, and translanguaging objectives on the teacher's guide page, while maintaining student close-reading tasks.
A 10-lesson English unit for NSW Year 2 Stage 1, focusing on the book 'Luna Roo'. Emphasises Component B: literature response, grammar, vocabulary, and text creation, integrating the spelling focus 'qu'.
A focused foundational reading lesson centered on visual and physical blending strategies using CVC, CCVC, and CVCC flashcards with built-in blending cues and a corresponding data tracking system for educators and instructional assistants.
A single-page visual exit ticket for 1st-grade ESL students to match baby animals to their mothers and complete scaffolded movement sentences.
