Interactive slide deck introducing the Great Chicago Fire and the 'Ask and Answer Questions' reading strategy with guided practice and discussion prompts. Includes vocabulary support.
A structured reading intervention sequence at Douglas School combining targeted phonic lessons with the multisensory Nessy online literacy system.
A scaffolded unit designed to help 5th-grade developing and emerging students create a mock e-commerce book listing for a novel they have read. This lesson breaks down complex writing tasks like summaries, quotes, and editorial reviews into structured, bite-sized templates with built-in sentence frames.
A 2-page instructional guide for teachers containing step-by-step facilitation plans, modeling guides for the sentence frames, a completed exemplar based on the novel Holes, and an asset-based 5th-grade writing rubric.
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.
Summer literacy communication and family engagement resources to help rising kindergarteners maintain and build reading skills over the summer break through play-based activities.
A 6-slide instructional presentation to guide students through each section of the Listing Launcher Worksheet. Features colorful step-by-step examples, visual marketing templates, and modeled writing strategies tailored for Grade 5 learners.
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.
Materials and communication documents for launching and onboarding families to the Nessy Literacy Program at Douglas School.
A 2-page print-ready scaffolded planner worksheet for Grade 5 developing and emerging writers. It breaks down the Amazon Listing Novel Project into manageable sections, featuring built-in sentence frames for the preview hook, plot summary, quote curators, editorial reviews, and book rankings. This revised version stacks the Somebody and Wanted sections vertically for a cleaner sequential flow.
A lesson focusing on the silent-e syllable type (CVCe and two-syllable words) using a playful Reader's Theater sequel. Students build phonics fluency, decode key silent-e words, and collaborate on reading aloud.
A cheerful, sunny summer reading introductory letter for rising first graders and their parents at Douglas School. It details how to use their "Summer Reading Activity Bag" containing alphabet flashcards, sight word popcorn matches, and syllable hopping games, complete with a printable 20-day summer tracking chart.
