Blending Bonanza Slides

A two-part foundational early first-grade CKLA narrative writing sequence. Week 1 introduces shared and interactive fable retelling with King Log and King Crane and tiered readiness groups. Week 2 progresses to student-led retelling and opinion book reports with Mr. Mowse.

A foundational phonics and reading comprehension lesson focusing on the diphthong /ɔɪ/ spelled 'oi' and 'oy'. Includes an instructional lesson plan, a multi-part student decodable activity packet, and an annotated teacher answer key.

A first-grade phonics worksheet where students practice the Bossy E rule by writing CVC short-vowel words on primary handwriting lines and adding silent 'e' to create new long-vowel words. Features primary handwriting guidelines, picture clues, a visual model, and read-aloud partner check stars.

A Grade 1 reading comprehension unit teaching students how to identify character feelings, actions, dialogue, and problems using the STORY elements framework with multi-tiered differentiated packets and paraprofessional guides.

A 1st-grade literacy lesson exploring autumn through fictional reading, main idea and detail tracking, inferencing, and word study with two-syllable digraphs and inflectional endings.

A phonics worksheet for first-grade students focused on decodable Bossy 'e' (CVCe) words. Features a curated word bank, eight easy-to-read decodable sentences with fill-in writing spaces, an instructional phonics reminder, and a drawing extension challenge.

A two-day festive holiday countdown unit designed for the last two days before winter break. Day 1 centers on Jan Brett's Gingerbread Baby with a phonics word bakery and gumdrop math, while Day 2 celebrates Caralyn Buehner's Snowmen at Christmas with s-blend snow hunts and snowball math games.

A targeted UFLI phonics and morphology lesson on inflectional endings -s and -es, covering rules for adding -es after sibilants, phonemic pronunciation differences (/s/, /z/, /ɪz/), extended decodable reading, and verbal assessment.

A comprehensive 1-page teacher reference and answer key for the Diphthong Workout Worksheet, featuring sound mapping models, minimal pair solutions, suffix combinations, and error correction rationales.

A 3-stage decoding and recoding intervention sequence for emerging readers. Students progress from consonant blends (CCVC) to digraphs and CVCe silent-e patterns, shifting from choppy letter-by-letter sounding to fluid unit recoding and sentence accuracy.

A 2nd grade lesson exploring the Greek myth of Atalanta and Hippomenes from CKLA Knowledge 4 Lesson 10. Students analyze character motivations and reactions to key events while exploring the Tier 2 vocabulary word resist.

A 2-page student phonics workout featuring Elkonin sound box orthographic mapping, minimal pair spelling contrasts, suffix word building, proofreading sentence correction, and application.