Curious Reporters Teacher Guide

A comprehensive 1-page teacher instructional guide that outlines the lesson plan, text-dependent sensory questioning prompts, standard alignments, pacing milestones, and differentiation options for students during the And Then Comes Summer lesson.

A print-ready student worksheet designed to accompany the slideshow. It features a beautifully themed 4-box sensory graphic organizer (Sights, Sounds, Feelings, Tastes/Smells) and a guided sensory writing prompt for students to document their own favorite summer moments.

An interactive slideshow presentation containing guided sensory comprehension questions and discussion prompts for Tom Brenner's 'And Then Comes Summer'. Designed with large, accessible text and visual icons for projecting in the classroom.

A 2-page visual aid packet. Page 1 is a colorful, high-contrast anchor chart poster defining similes and metaphors. Page 2 includes 6 visual vocabulary cards for easy classroom printing and cut-outs.

An updated 4-page student-facing workbook for Week 4. Page 1 is a final Portfolio Cover Page. Page 2 is a side-by-side Simile and Metaphor builder. Page 3 introduces the Ode, a complex figurative tribute poem celebrating an everyday object. Page 4 is a Gallery Walk peer review sheet.

A 2-page visual aid packet. Page 1 is a colorful, high-contrast anchor chart poster defining concrete and free verse poetry. Page 2 includes 6 visual vocabulary cards for easy classroom printing and cut-outs.

An updated 4-page student workbook for Week 3. Page 1 is a concrete shape canvas. Page 2 is a sensory feeling map. Page 3 is a structured free verse drafting sheet with visual prompt blocks. Page 4 introduces the Diamante, a challenging 7-line diamond poem comparing opposites.

A 2-page visual aid packet. Page 1 is a colorful, high-contrast anchor chart poster defining acrostic and couplet poetry. Page 2 includes 6 visual vocabulary cards for easy classroom printing and cut-outs.

An updated 4-page student workbook for Week 2. Page 1 is an acrostic builder. Page 2 is a couplet rhyming workshop. Page 3 is a visual beat-counting grid. Page 4 is a Limerick Laboratory scaffolding the advanced AABBA bouncing meter.

A 2-page visual aid packet. Page 1 is a colorful, high-contrast anchor chart poster defining sensory poetry, haiku, and color poems. Page 2 includes 6 visual vocabulary cards for easy classroom printing and cut-outs.

An updated 4-page student workbook for Week 1. Page 1 is a sensory collector. Page 2 is a Haiku builder. Page 3 introduces the Cinquain, a structured 5-line format with parts-of-speech rules. Page 4 features a sensory color poem with a metaphor constraint.

A colorful, large-format Classroom Anchor Chart designed for kindergarten classrooms using Really Great Reading Countdown (Units 11-28). It arranges the 18 core Heart Words sequentially in a bold 3x6 rainbow grid, featuring clean borders and giant, high-contrast lettering for maximum readability from the carpet.

A playful and highly readable Student Reference Folder helper sheet designed for kindergartners using Really Great Reading Countdown (Units 1-28). Features the 18 core Heart Words in large, child-friendly font cards, arranged alphabetically in a 4x5 grid with rainbow-colored frames, dry-erase tracing practice lines, and a visual mapping strategy guide.

A vibrant poster-style Classroom Anchor Chart listing all Really Great Reading Blast Heart Words for Units 1-30. Organized sequentially in a 5x6 rainbow grid, each card features clean word markers and bold lettering for high classroom visibility.

A compact, high-density printable Student Reference Folder helper sheet featuring all Really Great Reading Blast Heart Words for Units 1-30. Words are categorized alphabetically (A-Z) in a beautifully designed 4x5 grid, complete with a mini 'How to Map a Heart Word' strategy guide, target-setting space, and dry-erase friendly writing lines.

A highly accessible science worksheet exploring three different environments: rain forest, desert, and arctic. Features an extremely simplified 5-sentence passage, large text, and clear handwriting lines for main idea and two details.

An interactive printable board game featuring a winding path of 14 steps, integrated gameplay mechanics (sweet boosts and sour spills), cut-out student game pieces, and built-in coin-flip cards so no extra materials are required to play.

A sheet containing 4 scrambled, print-ready cutout sequencing cards representing the lemonade-making steps, styled with scissor cut lines and illustrative graphics for students to sort.

An interactive single-page student worksheet containing name/date fields, visual placeholders for the transition words, and dedicated white-background paste boxes for ordering the four lemonade-making steps.

A vibrant, colorful single-page anchor chart/poster designed for classroom walls, showcasing the sequence of lemonade making with large ordinal transition words and illustrative iconography.

A comprehensive 2-page teacher guide and lesson plan outlining instructional strategies, pacing, discussion prompts, and differentiation options for teaching ordinal sequencing words using a lemonade-making theme.

A beautifully paginated 4-page 4th-5th grade weekly ELA homework packet about the axolotl. Features high-legibility academic layout, parent tracker, Night 1 reading with a scientific passage, Night 2 root word and context vocabulary, Night 3 structural vs. behavioral adaptation sorting activity, and Night 4 critical comprehension questions with supportive sentence frames.

A beautifully paginated 4-page Level B weekly ELA homework packet about the mimic octopus. Grade-level descriptors have been removed from headers to allow discreet differentiation.

A beautifully paginated 4-page Level A weekly ELA homework packet about the chameleon's color-changing ability. Grade-level descriptors have been removed from headers to allow discreet differentiation.

A comprehensive, 5-page report card comment bank and customizing toolkit for elementary and middle school educators. It includes ready-to-use narrative, warm, and highly encouraging paragraphs focusing on ELA (reading, writing, vocabulary, discussion) and Social-Emotional Learning (work habits, collaboration, growth mindset, behavior), structured around a supportive growth-focused feedback model.

Teacher answer key for the Verb Hunt Worksheet, showing the corrected locations and highlights for all 9 hidden past tense verbs.

A detective-themed word search worksheet for identifying past tense verbs. Includes a corrected 12x12 grid with horizontal and vertical words, a word list on the same page, and space for writing sentences.

A 5-page printable ELA student extension packet for Week 4 (Wildlife Word Safari), featuring advanced functional vocabulary activities (community safety signs, action verbs, cooperative communication, animal classification, and high-level reading comprehension) styled with teal/safari-themed designs.