An engaging instructional slide deck that guides students through understanding story themes using a 'Theme Detective' investigation aesthetic.
A printable 1-page high-density teacher tracking log for recording student decoding trials, featuring a custom calculator key mapped specifically to the IEP's 62% target.
A set of 24 highly organized fold-and-track printable flashcards covering digraphs, bonus letters, and glued sounds, complete with diagnostic sound buttons and visual target lines for student data tracking.
A highly engaging, 5-slide visual presentation designed to introduce the Weekly Word Quest program to students during an assembly or home-room session. Features slides covering the program introduction, steps to play, guild ranks, and a practice quest.
A beautiful, scroll-themed student certificate of achievement for outstanding vocabulary exploration in the Word Explorers Guild. Features empty fields for student name, rank achieved, librarian signature, and award date.
A beautiful, high-impact library bulletin board poster designed to capture student curiosity. Features a large white dry-erase/writing frame for displaying the weekly quest description and a four-step illustrated visual map of how to play.
Printable student submission slips formatted as a 4-up grid on standard letter size with dotted cut lines. Features fields for explorer name, grade, active quest number, the word found, discovery location, and proof explanation, including a librarian seal stamp area.
A comprehensive school-wide guide containing administrative protocols, setup guidelines, visual bulletin board layouts, 40 distinct word quests spanning morphology, phonetics, and semantics, and morning announcement read-aloud scripts.
A beautiful, clean 12-card vocabulary printable in lowercase, complete with emojis, custom lowercase sentences, and trackable stars to track student mastery.
A highly engaging Disney-themed word search designed specifically for first-grade students. It features 20 words representing recent Disney/Pixar movies and characters, formatted to print perfectly on a single portrait page with simple left-to-right and top-to-bottom layout directions.
An instructional presentation for the 'Joy of Toys' lesson, introducing diphthongs 'oi' and 'oy' with clear rules, group reading, and interactive spelling tasks.
A printable phonics worksheet targeting diphthongs 'oi' and 'oy' with a decodable toy-themed story, spelling sorting columns, and cloze reading exercises.
An instructional presentation for the 'Goat on the Road' lesson, introducing the long O sound spelled with 'oa' and 'ow' through visual matching, group reading sentences, and an interactive quiz.
A printable phonics worksheet targeting vowel teams 'oa' and 'ow' (Long O sound) with a decodable road-trip story, spelling sorting columns, and cloze reading exercises.
An instructional presentation for the 'Deep Sea Dream' lesson, introducing the long E sound spelled with 'ee' and 'ea' through clear phonics rules, choral reading sentences, and visual practice.
A printable phonics worksheet targeting vowel teams 'ee' and 'ea' (Long E sound) with a decodable deep sea passage, word sorting chests, and context-clue sentence exercises.
An engaging classroom presentation containing visual drilling, vowel team rule comparisons, decodable sentences for group reading, and a guided spelling quiz for the 'ai' and 'ay' lesson.
A student worksheet for the 'Rainy Day Bay' lesson, targeting the 'ai' and 'ay' vowel teams. Features an engaging decodable story, a word hunting sorting activity, and sentence completion with light handwriting spaces for clean, easy printing.
A 1st-grade printable student graphic organizer and phonics worksheet on central message, illustrations (RL.1.2 & RL.1.7), and welded sounds (-nk, -ng) for Book 3.
A comprehensive, 2-page teacher-facing unit guide detailing CCSS standards, Heggerty phonics connections (Weeks 5-10), discussion questions, differentiation strategies, and an assessment checklist.
Printable vocabulary cards featuring key terms from Book 2, styled with dotted cut lines, friendly definitions, and phonics indicators.
A 1st-grade sequencing graphic organizer and phonics sorting worksheet for Book 2, focusing on plot events and digraph/trigraph patterns (ck, tch, -ll, -ss).
A 1st-grade printable student graphic organizer and phonics worksheet on character traits, setting, and consonant digraphs (sh, ch, th, wh) for Book 1.
A beautiful, highly visual 5-slide instructional presentation for Lesson 1, introducing the characters, setting, and consonant digraphs of Book 1 with engaging bakery theme elements and large legible fonts.
A printer-friendly teacher tracking sheet for recording and organizing Nonsense Word Fluency (NWPM) scores of up to 18 students across the Fall, Winter, and Spring benchmark periods. Includes target goals and spaces for strategic flight grouping notes.
A space-themed weekly tracking sheet for Spring, tailored for first graders to record their Nonsense Word Fluency. Features a visual grid scaled up to 40 words per minute with an absolute orbit goal line of 22.
A space-themed weekly tracking sheet for Winter, tailored for first graders to record their Nonsense Word Fluency. Features a visual grid scaled up to 30 words per minute with an absolute orbit goal line of 17.
A space-themed weekly tracking sheet for Fall, tailored for first graders to record their Nonsense Word Fluency. Features a visual grid scaled up to 20 words per minute with an absolute orbit goal line of 10.
A student recording sheet (Detective Log) formatted for first graders to track, map, and write the 12 scavenger hunt diphthong words under correct animal track columns.
Printable 2x2 grid scavenger hunt cards featuring picture clues and fill-in-the-blank diphthong words for students to find around the classroom.
An introductory visual slideshow for direct instruction and warm-up before starting the movement-based scavenger hunt. Teaches ou/ow and au/aw with multi-sensory hand gestures.
A detailed, multi-sensory 25-minute small group lesson plan for 1st grade teachers targeting diphthongs au, aw, ou, and ow through physical movement, visual search, and sound mapping.
A structured chronological retelling and cause-and-effect graphic organizer worksheet that guides students in sequencing the bear's dramatic marshmallow rescue.