Instructional slides for teaching 3rd graders how to use sound (onomatopoeia) and action as narrative hooks.
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.
Day 5 of the Phonics Breakout Series. Students enter the Vowel Team Temple and solve vowel-team riddles (ai, ay, ee, ea, oa, oo) to open the final sanctuary vault with a 3-digit numeric code.
A printable phonics reference and student activity sheet featuring 15 targeted words with oa, oe, ie, and igh vowel teams. Includes check boxes for decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling) practice.
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.
Day 4 of the Phonics Breakout Series. Students decipher ancient runes in the R-Controlled Ruins by writing missing ar, er, ir, or, and ur spelling patterns. Spells out a 4-letter word lock code.
Day 5 student worksheet for Vowel Team Temple. Features a sacred temple sanctuary theme, name/date inputs, a 15-word spelling fill-in-the-blank grid categorized by vowel teams (oa, oe, ie, igh), and a 3-digit numeric code box cracked by counting the completed words in each list.
Day 3 of the Phonics Breakout Series. Students cross the rickety Digraph & Blend Bridge. They fill in missing blends and digraphs (sh, ch, th, st, gr, bl) and count word patterns to unlock a 3-digit numeric code lock.
Day 4 student worksheet for R-Controlled Ruins. Features an ancient stone ruins theme, name/date inputs, 4 spelling challenges requiring ar, er, ir, or, and ur fill-ins, and a designated combination box to solve a 4-letter word lock.
An intensive intervention lesson designed to help struggling readers master main idea identification using hands-on, color-coded highlighting strategies. Students learn to dismantle paragraph structures like blueprint architects, physically separating the 'roof' (main idea) from the 'supporting pillars' (details).
Day 2 of the Phonics Breakout Series. Students hike up the Silent E Mountain and use the magic power of silent letters to turn short vowel words into long vowel words. Spells out a 4-letter word lock code.
Day 3 student worksheet for Digraph & Blend Bridge. Features a rope bridge canyon theme, name/date inputs, fill-in-the-blank spelling challenges with digraphs and consonant blends (sh, st, ch), and count boxes to decode a 3-digit numeric code.
