Blueprint Puzzle Strips

A 'Puzzle Reading' activity where construction steps for a birdhouse are presented in cut-out strips for students to reorder, reinforcing sequencing and structural understanding. Now expanded with 8 strips including intro and conclusion.

DGDanielle Garland

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Digit Detectives

A math place value unit focusing on identifying digit values through the thousands place with interactive detective-themed worksheets and puzzles.

Jennifer Murphy

Diamond Writers

A year-end writing celebration and awards ceremony designed to recognize growth, effort, and accomplishments in writing.

Julie Pietrasiak

Diamond Celebration Slides

A completely redesigned, bespoke slide deck with a 'Digging for Diamonds' theme in a highly engaging Retro-Playful Flat-Pop style. Features thick black outlines, solid flat shadows, authentic lined paper journal pages, vibrant custom vector stickers, and the Chelsea Market title font. Built to look artisanal, warm, and classroom-native rather than AI-generated.

Julie Pietrasiak

Douglas Literacy Pathway

A structured reading intervention sequence at Douglas School combining targeted phonic lessons with the multisensory Nessy online literacy system.

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Puck Drop Phonemes

A hockey-themed phonological awareness unit designed for third graders to practice isolating beginning, middle, and final consonant sounds, blends, and digraphs. Features engaging task cards and a student tracking sheet with a dry-erase friendly design.

Lenny

Puck Drop Answer Key and Guide

A teacher reference guide and answer key for the Puck Drop Phonemes task cards. Includes a short modeling script, an answer key table with pronunciation notes, and differentiation strategies.

Lenny

Phonics Breakout Series

A comprehensive 5-day phonics breakout sequence where students complete daily independent spelling missions to crack codes. Covering CVC, Silent E, Digraphs/Blends, R-controlled vowels, and Vowel Teams, each day represents a new adventure challenge.

Michelle Low

Syllable Splitters

A structured, multi-part phonics intervention lesson focusing on compound words and syllable division rules (VCCV, VCV) for decoding 2-syllable and 3-syllable words.

Jennifer Murphy

Puck Drop Recording Sheet

A printable grid recording sheet for students to write down the isolated letters or phonemes for all 12 hockey task cards. Styled like hockey pucks with clean lines for handwriting.

Lenny

Poetry Pathways

A comprehensive 4-week poetry curriculum designed for students requiring high structure and visual supports. It covers diverse poetry types (Haiku, Color, Acrostic, Couplets, Concrete, Free Verse, and Metaphor/Simile) with scaffolds like word banks, sentence frames, and graphic organizers.

V Lundgren

Syllable Sleuths

A highly structured, 3-part phonics intervention lesson focusing on advanced syllable types, consonant blends, silent-e, vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, and consonant-le syllables through decodable texts and self-checking materials.

Jennifer Murphy

Puck Drop Phonemes Task Cards

A set of 12 hockey-themed phoneme isolation task cards. Each card features a hockey-related vocabulary word, a target isolation question (beginning, middle, final), and a large write-in box for dry-erase markers.

Lenny

Blueprint Puzzle Strips