A baseball-themed reading and writing lesson designed for a 4th grader reading at a 2nd-grade level. The lesson focuses on identifying key details and organizing a paragraph using a topic sentence, three details, and a conclusion.

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.