Butterfly Detective Teacher Guide

A comprehensive teacher guide outline for the Butterfly Research Detectives unit, including daily lesson plans, Massachusetts curriculum standards alignment, scaffolding tips, and student-facing differentiation ideas.

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Forty Week Implementation Guide Document

Word Architects Curriculum

A comprehensive year-long tier 2 vocabulary curriculum designed for struggling readers in grades 3-6. Utilizing an architectural theme, this curriculum guides students in building words using prefixes, suffixes, synonyms, and antonyms through explicit instruction, daily oral practice, and multisensory graphic organizers.

Shannon Mueller

Word Decoding Mission

An intensive word-study lesson designed to help students decode complex multi-syllabic Tier 2 words and master the phonetic distinction between silent-E words and short-vowel look-alikes. Uses high-contrast visual cues and color-coded syllable chunking.

Jodi.Denton

Word Hackers Worksheet

A 2-page printable student worksheet featuring syllable chunking exercises, word-definition mappings, and silent-E vs. short-vowel coding drills. Designed with a cyber-terminal theme and high-contrast writing areas.

Jodi.Denton

Broadcast Stars

A dual-module news broadcast unit where students learn speaking, scriptwriting, and filming skills. Module 1 masters core phonics standards (vowel teams and past-tense ed pronunciation), while Module 2 develops essential Social-Emotional Learning skills including reading the room and identifying emotional Zones of Regulation.

James McLernon

Unit 1 Weeks 2-5 Bundle

Consolidated daily routines, student practice workbooks, and oral vocabulary materials for Unit 1: Weeks 2 through 5. Focuses on the roots -tract-, -ject-, -port-, and -cover-.

Shannon Mueller

Word Hackers Slides

An interactive, visual slide deck designed for whole-group decoding instruction. Features color-coded syllable chunking, phonetic coding for silent E vs. short vowels, and high-contrast word-definition matches.

Jodi.Denton

Classroom Mystery Files

A collection of engaging, highly scaffolded reading comprehension classroom mysteries designed for elementary students to practice evidence analysis and persuasive writing.

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Week 1 Prototype Kit

The fully realized prototype kit for Week 1 (Target words: Construct, Destruct, Reconstruct, Structure). Includes the daily instructional slide deck, student workbooks, oral language speaking cards, and printable anchor charts.

Shannon Mueller

Forty Week Implementation Guide Document

A comprehensive 3-page teacher-facing guide mapping out the day-by-day routines, quarters, pedagogical scripting, and differentiation strategies for the entire 40-week curriculum.

Shannon Mueller

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

Blueprint and Diagnostics

Provides the complete 40-week scope and sequence, baseline screening diagnostic tools, and student progress trackers to establish baseline performance and measure vocabulary growth throughout the school year.

Shannon Mueller

Unit 1 Core Weeks Workbook Document

A highly systematic, 4-page student work packet covering Weeks 2 through 5 of Unit 1. Features matching columns, synonym tasks, morphology trees, and sentence writing frames.

Butterfly Detective Teacher Guide