Builds word mastery through parts of speech, Greek and Latin roots, and morphological analysis of prefixes and suffixes. Develops nuanced comprehension using context clues, shades of meaning, and idiomatic expressions.
The final set of heart word practice pages covering time and place concepts like 'Today', 'Above', 'Again', and 'Always'.
Focusing on words for people and common actions like 'Friend', 'Because', 'Woman', and 'People', these pages provide deep orthographic practice.
Practice pages for tricky high-frequency words such as 'Where', 'One', 'Two', and 'Does', continuing the UFLI-aligned mapping and word building.
A set of heart word practice pages focusing on words related to direction, quantity, and common verbs, including 'Their', 'Were', 'Talk', and the '-ould' family.
The first set of heart word practice pages focusing on common high-frequency words with irregular parts, including 'Your', 'Want', 'Go', and others. Each page includes mapping, tracing, writing, and word-building activities.
Unmask words that sound the same but look different (homophones) and words that look the same but have different meanings (multiple meaning words). Focuses on using context clues to solve word mysteries.
Unlock the secrets of long and short vowels, vowel teams, and the power of the silent 'e'. This lesson focuses on identifying patterns that change how a word is pronounced and spelled.
Investigate consonant blends and digraphs to master the sounds at the beginning and end of words. Students learn to distinguish between blended sounds and the unique sounds created by digraphs.
Covers final y as a vowel, plural endings with -ies, common prefixes (re-, un-, dis-, mis-), and a comprehensive review of patterns from Sorts 13-50.
Focuses on complex consonant clusters including triple blends (scr, str, spr, thr, shr, squ), silent consonants (kn, wr, gn), and variations of hard/soft c and g. Students will practice these intricate spelling patterns through context.
This lesson explores diphthongs and ambiguous vowel patterns including oi, oy, oo, aw, au, wa, al, and ou/ow. Students will practice identifying these sounds through context and word searches.
Investigation into r-controlled vowel patterns including ar, are, air, er, ear, eer, ir, ire, ier, or, ore, oar, and ur patterns.
Review of CVVC patterns and introduction to open syllables with long a, o, u, and i patterns across Sorts 18-24.
Foundational practice for Sorts 13-17, focusing on short and long vowel patterns including CVCe and CVVC for a, o, u, and e.
Focuses on the long 'e' vowel sound with the silent 'e' pattern (e-e). Students will read about Pete and Eve's themed party, practicing words like 'theme', 'Pete', 'Eve', and 'these'.
Focuses on the long 'o' vowel sound with the silent 'e' pattern (o-e). Students will read about Cole helping his mom rescue a bone for Stone the pup, practicing words like 'phone', 'woke', 'bone', 'hole', and 'froze'.
Focuses on the long 'a' vowel sound with the silent 'e' pattern (a-e). Students will read about Chase and his lost black case, practicing words like 'gate', 'safe', 'shade', and 'Mave'.
Focuses on short vowels, ending blends (-st), and the final -x sound. Students will read about Tad cleaning his muddy cab, incorporating words like 'dust', 'wax', and 'rags'.
Focuses on the short /i/ vowel sound and the heart word 'I'. Students will practice blending letters s, a, t, p, and i to read a rhythmic decodable passage about sitting and tapping.
A fun, interactive lesson for 1st graders to distinguish between the homophones 'buy' and 'bye' using music, movement, and a hands-on game.
A foundational workshop for adult learners focusing on common word endings (-es, -ing, -ed) through visual aids, repetitive drills, and high-interest reading passages.
A creative writing lesson for 1st grade Multilingual Learners (MLs) where they sequence a spring-themed story and write accompanying text using handwriting-scaffolded lines.
A reading intervention lesson focused on story comprehension using a maze assessment format, where students select the correct word to complete a narrative.
A comprehensive final review and celebration of skills, featuring mixed practice across phonics, grammar, and research to build confidence for assessment.
Explores more complex word patterns like digraphs and silent e, alongside pronouns and basic context clues to determine word meaning.
Introduces basic research and reference skills such as ABC order to the first letter, identifying parts of a book, and using a simple Table of Contents.
Shifts focus to sentence construction, focusing on capitalization of names and sentence starts, basic end punctuation, and identifying nouns and verbs.
Focuses on foundational phonics including CVC words, initial/final blends, and simple synonyms and antonyms. Students begin their quest by mastering the basic building blocks of words.
Week 4 focusing on social vocabulary, feelings, and connecting simple ideas into short stories.
Week 3 focusing on action verbs and describing what people are doing.
Week 2 focusing on describing words (adjectives) and building more descriptive sentences.
Week 1 focusing on school basics, nouns, and simple 'I see' and 'I have' sentence structures.
Mastering complex clusters where two sounds slide together, focusing on s-blends, l-blends, and r-blends.
Investigations into special two-letter combinations that create unique single sounds, featuring sh, ch, th, and wh.
A comprehensive packet of fill-in-the-blank sentences for Unit 4 through Unit 8 of the Letter Name-Alphabetic stage, designed for first-grade literacy practice with word banks and randomized sort ordering.
An art-themed mystery where a painter's favorite purple brush goes missing, featuring tiered assignments for different grade levels.
A science-fiction mystery where a robot's battery charger goes missing on a space station, with assignments focusing on logical deduction.
A mystery story set on a beach where a special golden shell has gone missing, with tiered assignments focusing on evidence-based comprehension.
A collection of materials focused on a mystery story about a squirrel detective, featuring a reading passage and three tiered comprehension assignments.
A collection of visual prompt cards and resources to help kindergarten students practice oral language skills and describe their work using sentence frames.
Venture into the mysterious world of caves to master essential sight words while meeting bats, spiders, and salamanders.
Explore the leafy woodland forest to master essential sight words while meeting graceful deer, wise owls, and busy woodpeckers.
Squelch through the marshy wetlands to master descriptive sight words while spotting alligators, frogs, and dragonflies.
Climb to the highest peaks to master directional sight words while meeting mountain goats, eagles, and black bears.
Hop through the sun-drenched Australian Outback to master new sight words while meeting kangaroos, koalas, and wombats.
Students will learn about the construction of the pyramids and the significance of the Great Sphinx through a decodable reader and guided discussion.
A comprehensive lesson focused on color identification, sequencing, and animal recognition through the classic story Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Students will engage in retelling, matching, and sorting activities designed for early childhood learners.
A foundational phonics lesson focusing on identifying beginning sounds for all 26 letters of the alphabet, specifically designed with visuals to support Multilingual Learners.
The final mission where detectives apply all their skills to crack the ultimate code and earn their Phonics Detective Badge.
Detectives learn to break down big, multi-syllabic words and track down suffixes at the end of word 'trails'.
A mystery involving the Silent E and its team of vowels that change the 'identities' of words.
Detectives use blueprints to understand how consonants work together in blends and digraphs to create unique sounds.
Detectives investigate the 'Lineup of Sounds' to master individual letter sounds and build CVC words using vowel clues.
The final training phase where sleuths break down complex multi-syllabic words and analyze suffixes to solve big linguistic cases.
Detecting patterns in word endings, students explore common word families to build rhyme and reading fluency.
The first stage of the Sound Detective journey, focusing on the discovery of initial consonant sounds through interactive sentence puzzles.
A primary-level lesson focused on identifying and understanding compound words through a nature-themed scouting activity.
A hands-on board game experience where students explore the forest of compound words, practicing how to decompose words and match visual parts to create new ones.
A collection of reading passages designed to challenge students' comprehension and linguistic awareness by analyzing word counts, sentence structures, and syllable patterns.
Cette formation pour les professeurs de TPS-PS vise à professionnaliser la conception des "traces" d'activités (cahiers de vie, affichages). En s'appuyant sur les photos de classe et les guides 2025, les enseignants apprennent à rendre les apprentissages explicites pour les élèves et les familles.
A collection of fun activities based on the classic book 'The Stinky Cheese Man', focusing on creative expression and vocabulary.
A collaborative storytelling lesson where students use visual prompts to navigate through the elements of a story, focusing on sequencing and descriptive language.
A focused lesson on identifying, reading, and writing high-frequency sight words to build reading fluency and confidence.
Foundational literacy support for the Nature's Balance unit, focusing on CVC/CVCe blending, unit vocabulary, and sentence frames.
A comprehensive writing unit designed for newcomer multilingual learners to draft a fictional story about a clever rabbit. This lesson includes vocabulary building, structured planning with a brain frame, and scaffolded drafting.
A Grade 1 oral language lesson focused on narrating family traditions and celebrations. Students use temporal connectors and descriptive language to share a special story from their family life, aligned with WIDA Narrate standards.
A set of beginner-level reading comprehension materials focusing on cloze passages for first graders. Covering topics like seasonal animal behavior and classroom expectations.
A small-group activity where students act as "Word Detectives" to determine the correct meaning of multiple-meaning words using sentence-level context clues. Students analyze task cards and record their findings in a detective log.
A high-energy lesson focused on identifying homophones and using sight words in context through a music video drill and a whiteboard relay race. Students will learn to distinguish between common homophones like 'write'/'right' and 'their'/'there'.
Students become 'Word Detectives' to identify 46 high-frequency sight words from the 'Second Sight Word Song'. The lesson involves a classroom search, air-writing during video viewing, and a text-based highlighting mission.
A 1st-grade literacy lesson focusing on identifying sight words and distinguishing between phonetically regular words and 'tricky' words with silent letters or unusual spelling patterns. Students will use hand signals during a musical video and complete a Word Detective sorting activity.
A fun, interactive lesson for 1st graders to master the homophones by, buy, and bye through song, movement, and sentence building.
Examining the suffix '-y' (full of/characterized by) to create descriptive adjectives with sensory-based games.
Discovering the suffix '-ly' (in what manner) to transform adjectives into adverbs through descriptive movement.
Learning the prefix 'pre-' (before) with a focus on preparation and sequence-based movement activities.
Exploring the prefix 'un-' (not/opposite) through comparative exercises and 'undoing' movement games.
Introducing the prefix 're-' (again/back) with activities focused on repetitive actions and visual modeling.
A phonics-based card game lesson where students practice reading words with short vowels, blends, digraphs, vowel teams, and various affixes through an Old Maid style game called Losing Lizard.
A comprehensive lesson introducing long 'e' vowel digraphs (ee, ea, ie) and silent 'e' (e_e), incorporating suffixes and glued sounds with a nature-inspired theme.
The introductory unit focusing on short vowels, consonant blends, and foundational fluency routines.
A focused lesson on closed syllable exceptions (-ost, -ild, -ind, -olt, -old), featuring decodable passages, instructional slides, and teacher support materials designed for grades 1-3.
A surveillance mission into the silent but powerful 'e' and how it changes short vowels into long ones.
Detectives investigate how two letters work together to create new sounds (digraphs) or blend their sounds together (blends).
Students learn to decode CVC words by identifying beginning, middle, and ending sounds, treating each word as a piece of phonetic evidence to be examined.
A Grade 1 phonics lesson focusing on Vowel-Consonant-e (V-C-e) syllables and specific heart words, themed around birds and the purposes of their beaks and feathers.
Cette formation vise à outiller les conseillers pédagogiques pour l'analyse et l'exploitation de ressources diverses (vidéos, manuels, guides) dans le cadre de la formation continue des professeurs des écoles en français, conformément aux orientations stratégiques nationales.
Cette leçon vise à introduire un projet d'écriture authentique en Grande Section : rédiger un message aux parents pour annoncer une sortie scolaire. Elle s'appuie sur l'observation de messages existants pour définir des critères de réussite et initier la planification selon les programmes 2025.
Focuses on compound words and a review of the silent 'e' (VCe) pattern. Students read about Sage and her stepmom packing a lunch for a trip to the pond, practicing words like 'backpack', 'laptop', 'milkshakes', and 'cupcakes'.
A leveled reading comprehension lesson based on Chapter 1 of 'Jane Goodall and the Chimpanzees of Gombe'. Students practice making predictions and identifying key details about Jane's arrival in the jungle across three different learning levels.
A narrative writing lesson where students step into the shell of an oyster. They learn how pearls are formed through a SciShow Kids video and practice personification by writing a diary entry about an uncomfortable bit of debris and the creation of a pearl.
A writing-focused lesson where elementary students explore coastal climates through a sensory lens, culminating in a descriptive postcard written from San Francisco or the Gold Coast.
A 1st/2nd grade lesson focused on using sensory words to describe the rainforest, featuring a guided video tour with Tess the Robot and a creative postcard writing activity.
