A phonics-focused lesson for first graders to master CVC words with bilingual Spanish support to bridge vocabulary gaps. Students will explore sounds, write words, and connect meanings between languages.
درس تفاعلي يركز على قصة 'غابة الهمسات'، يتضمن عرضاً تقديمياً للقصة، وأوراق عمل لتعزيز المفردات المتوسطة الصعوبة، ودليلاً للمعلم لإدارة الحوار.
A deep dive into Janie Crawford's character transformation and the reclamation of her voice following the death of Joe Starks in Zora Neale Hurston's 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'.
A fun, dual-language introduction to short vowel CVC words through engaging stories and hands-on mini-books. Students will build phonics fluency and reading comprehension in both English and Spanish contexts.
Tracking tools for 5th grade reading fluency benchmarks. Includes Fall (132 WPM), Winter (149 WPM), and Spring (162 WPM) trackers.
Tracking tools for 4th grade reading fluency benchmarks. Includes Fall (115 WPM), Winter (133 WPM), and Spring (147 WPM) trackers.
Tracking tools for 1st grade reading fluency benchmarks. Includes Winter (37 WPM) and Spring (66 WPM) trackers. No Fall benchmark is typically assessed at this level.
Tracking tools for 3rd grade reading fluency benchmarks. Includes Fall (87 WPM), Winter (110 WPM), and Spring (125 WPM) trackers.
Tracking tools for 2nd grade reading fluency benchmarks. Includes Fall (56 WPM), Winter (84 WPM), and Spring (101 WPM) trackers.
This lesson explores the ethical and legal implications of using social media in hiring decisions. Students will analyze a professional text, summarize its key points, and develop a structured argument regarding whether employers should screen candidates' online presence.
A intensive reteach lesson for standard RI.6.3, focusing on how authors introduce, illustrate, and elaborate on key elements in a text using Civil Rights, Social Media, and Scientific Innovation topics.
Preparing students for the NYS Grade 6 ELA extended response by breaking down the comparison of two texts into manageable drafting stages.
A structural analysis lesson focused on Carol Ann Duffy's poem 'Text', exploring how line breaks and stanza structure mirror the anxiety and brevity of digital communication.
A reading comprehension lesson centered on a story about Beth and her diverse group of pets, focusing on identifying key details through "Wh-" questions.
A focused look at Chapter 7 of Their Eyes Were Watching God, exploring Janie's internal duality and the climactic verbal confrontation that shatters her marriage to Jody.
This lesson introduces students to the features of informational texts, such as headings, captions, maps, and glossaries, using the mentor text 'A Mountain Gorilla Grows Up' to model how these features provide additional facts and details. Students will practice identifying and using these features to locate information.
A focused lesson on identifying chronological sequence in informational texts, specifically targeting RI.3.8 standards for 3rd-grade students.
A collection of reading accuracy trackers for Kindergarten and 1st Grade students to monitor their phonics progress.
Students practice and perform five unique fractured fairy tale scripts, each featuring exactly five characters to support collaborative group work.
A phonics series focusing on vowel spelling patterns (long 'i', long 'o') through the lens of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
A multi-day ELA project for 2nd graders to practice narrative writing, sensory details, and sentence expansion through a creative travel journal format.