Bills Team Desk Plates

A progressive space-themed unit focusing on self-space, general space, body control, and safe group choreography for elementary dance students.

An interactive and comprehensive lesson for grades 3-5 that guides students through identifying and mapping essential story elements, including characters, setting, conflict, resolution, and the classic plot mountain structure.

A comprehensive, step-by-step lesson plan for teachers, detailing lesson structure, pacing, direct instruction scripts, discussion prompts, and differentiation strategies for teaching story elements.

A scaffolded communicative sequence designed to transition multilingual learners from basic classroom survival language to expressing academic opinions. It provides highly visual resources, structured templates, and peer-to-peer discussion supports across Entering, Emerging, Transitioning, and Expanding proficiency levels.

A comprehensive lesson introducing upper elementary students to the core elements of a story (characters, setting, conflict, resolution) and mapping them onto a Plot Mountain using a creative drafting and blueprint theme.

An engaging guided practice worksheet for students to dissect a short adventure story, identify key narrative elements, and map out their findings on a blank Plot Mountain diagram.

A reading comprehension unit centered on the historic 1960 deep-sea expedition of the bathyscaphe Trieste. This sequence offers dual-path lessons tailored for fourth-grade (4.0) independent readers and first-grade (1.0) interactive read-aloud learners.

This unit launch lesson explores the meaning of freedom through the perspective of Nina Simone, introducing students to the theme of freedom and launching the Discourse Clubs small-group routine.

A visually stunning, parchment-themed printable anchor chart depicting 'Plot Mountain' with clear definitions and helpful prompts for characters, setting, rising action, conflict, climax, falling action, and resolution.

A cohesive English Language Arts sequence focused on reading literature standards RL.4.1, RL.4.3, and W.4.9. Students develop as ELA 'detectives', learning to identify genres, analyze explicit versus implicit clues, draw inferences, and describe characters or settings with evidence.

A three-day series of STAAR-aligned reading warm-ups for 3rd-grade students, featuring a Realistic Fiction story, an Informational text, and a Fable. Each warm-up includes three multiple-choice questions and one open-ended question to build critical reading skills.

A 2-page student worksheet containing an engaging short story ('The Clockwork Contraption') with guided sections to identify key story pillars and map the plot onto a blank blueprint mountain.