A collection of visual goal-tracking dashboards for grades 1-5, using a rocket launch theme to help students visualize their reading fluency targets for the year.

A final review and celebration of the skills learned throughout the Mastermind Academy program.

Students learn to identify and regulate their emotions to stay in the "learning zone."

Mind masters learn to switch their "brain gears" to focus on the task at hand and ignore distractions.

Specialists focus on the "cement" of writing: punctuation, capitalization, and grammar rules.

Engineers learn to expand their simple "blueprints" by adding descriptive adjectives and powerful verbs.

Sentence architects learn the foundations of a strong sentence, including subjects and predicates.

Explorers learn to organize their hunted ideas into a clear beginning, middle, and end.

Hunters learn to track down specific details that make their ideas stronger and more vivid.

Idea hunters head into the wild to find "sparks" of inspiration for their writing using their senses.

Detectives learn to pull specific information and evidence from texts to solve comprehension cases.

Young sleuths learn how to use context clues and word parts to uncover the meaning of tricky vocabulary.

Students become Clue Catchers, using detective strategies to decode unfamiliar words and sounds in text.