An end-of-year staff meeting bundle designed to analyze student writing data from the Empowering Writers curriculum and plan for next school year's instruction.
A phonics and literacy lesson focused on the 'rabbit rule' (VC/CV double consonant) syllabication pattern, using a field-journal-themed decodable story, interactive word-mapping activities, and a comprehensive teacher guide.
A reading comprehension and vocabulary lesson based on the true story of a D.C. bus driver who went out of his way to return a student's lost trumpet before an important concert. Students develop close reading skills, identify Tier 2 vocabulary in context, and explore themes of community and empathy.
A complete literacy lesson aligned with Wilson Reading System Step 6.2, focusing on multi-syllabic words with suffixes. Students learn to read, scoop, and define complex words while engaging with an inspiring reading passage about NFL wide receiver AJ Brown.
A comprehensive reading comprehension packet containing six engaging 2nd-grade passages (three fiction, three informational) with literal and inferential questions.
A suite of 5 phonics-based progress monitoring reading passages designed for second-grade students. Each passage targets a specific phonetic spelling pattern (closed syllables, silent e, two-syllable words, r-controlled vowels, and vowel teams) and includes a student-facing reading and comprehension page and a matching teacher-facing word-count tracking page.
A high-interest, explorer-themed lesson where 3rd-5th grade students design personalized summer reading trail maps, set challenge goals, and pitch books to classmates to embark on a lifelong reading adventure.
An 8th-grade ELA test readiness lesson containing a complete, high-quality standards-aligned practice test with fiction, poetry, and informational articles, plus a teacher's diagnostic answer key.
A lesson focused on teaching students how to make logical inferences using everyday functional texts, such as text messages, receipts, schedules, and maps. Students act as 'Everyday Detectives' to piece together clues from real-world documents.
A rigorous, standard-aligned preparation lesson for the Grade 6 Reading EOG, featuring a complete 42-question practice exam and a dedicated standalone answer key with detailed question rationales and standards alignment.
A full-length diagnostic reading assessment for Grade 8, designed to mirror the exact structure, passage distribution, and cognitive rigor of the North Carolina End-of-Grade (EOG) released exam.
A scaffolded narrative writing assessment unit designed to support fifth-grade students, particularly those with IEP accommodations, in planning, drafting, and checking their own creative stories.
A highly scaffolded character analysis lesson designed for English Language Learners (ELL) Level 2. Students analyze either a loathsome or pitiful character using a visual graphic organizer and sentence starters.
A progress monitoring phonics assessment system for first grade, featuring five passages targeting closed, silent e, and r-controlled syllable patterns alongside high-frequency words. Includes student reading sheets, running record scoring guides, and comprehension worksheets with primary handwriting lines.
A comprehensive phonics-focused lesson that empowers K-2 students to author, illustrate, and assemble their own decodable books. It includes three levels of differentiated student bookmaking templates (tracing, sentence stems, and independent writing) alongside an educator facilitation guide.
Students compare viewpoints on how to protect the environment, looking at one author advocating for banning plastic bags and another championing community cleanups.
Students examine differing perspectives on daily tablet and video game use, distinguishing between an author promoting technology skills and one warning against excessive screens.
Students read and compare contrasting opinions on whether elementary school students should have daily homework, analyzing reasons and persuasive words used by each author.
Students analyze paired texts on whether wild animals should be kept in traditional zoos or in natural wildlife preserves, identifying key evidence that reveals each author's perspective.
A comprehensive 5-day sight word unit designed for early childhood learners. It includes highly differentiated packets for emergent and early fluent readers, visual classroom slides, and a comprehensive teacher guide with dictation sentences and activity ideas.
A comprehensive 5-day sight word unit targeting five critical high-frequency Fry words ('about', 'would', 'write', 'other', 'their') through active daily routines, hands-on practice, and a tactile detective-themed investigation.
A targeted strategy and terminology boot camp designed to help students master ELA Regents Part 1 (MCQ) elimination strategies, Part 2 (Argument) counterclaim formulation, and Part 3 (Text-Analysis) literary device mastery.
A targeted preparation lesson for Part 3 of the NYS English Regents Exam. Students learn to analyze how authors use imagery and tone to construct a powerful central idea, mastering the 2-3 paragraph Text Analysis Response (TAR) format.
A 4th-grade reading comprehension lesson about a real meteor explosion off the coast of Massachusetts, exploring the science of fireballs and shockwaves.
A reading comprehension and identity-focused lesson bundle based on Veera Hiranandani's 'The Whole Story of Half a Girl' tailored for middle school IEP students. Includes an adapted passage, vocabulary scaffolding, sequencing activities, and character analysis organizers.
An elegant, comprehensive suite of guided reading tracking sheets, running record calculators, and reference guides designed to monitor student reading growth, fluency, and comprehension.
A comprehensive Fountas & Pinnell reading level tracking system for grade-level teams and individual teachers, featuring a master grade-level tracker, individual student profiles, and an F&P levels reference matrix.
A targeted phonics-based mini-lesson that utilizes orthographic mapping to help students decode, map, and master the high-frequency word "from". Students move from sound-spelling mapping to interactive slide activities and hands-on sentence-building task cards.
A collection of beautifully designed, compact data folder inserts featuring proficiency scale charts and progress tracking logs for Grade 3 standards.
A comprehensive 15-day word study unit for Grade 4 focused on prefixes, suffixes, Latin roots, compound words, homophones, synonyms/antonyms, and context clues. Includes a master slide deck and a complete student workbook.
A professional data analysis lesson framework and diagnostic guide to help K-3 educators dissect Acadience Reading benchmarks, identify systemic teaching gaps, and design proactive prevention plans for the upcoming school year.
A foundational Kindergarten writing lesson where students discover that writers tell about things they know, starting with their school. Students practice oral sentence stems and create drawings representing their school environment, which teachers support by labeling using dictation.