Epic Quest Vocab Slides

A comprehensive 3rd grade literacy unit featuring a 3-day reading comprehension sequence on main ideas and key details ('Main Idea Detectives') and a targeted 30-minute writing craft lesson on transition variety ('Bridge Builders').

An explicit, systematic phonics intervention targeting the r-controlled vowel er (/er/ as in fern, her, and herd). Readers develop phoneme-grapheme mapping, short e vs. er contrast awareness, and fluency through multi-sensory routines.

A print-ready 2-page student decodable phonics packet optimized for black-and-white photocopying and student completion, featuring a balanced -tch and -dge passage with fluency trackers, text-dependent comprehension questions with generous ruled lines, a high-contrast roll-read-and-cover gameboard, and structured trigraph word work.

A 3-part sentence-building sequence where students practice constructing, expanding, and combining sentences starring Godzilla and King Kong with rich visual scaffolding.

An ELA informational writing lesson where students read *All Things Spiders for Kids*, state their most intriguing spider discovery, and cite supporting text evidence with visual scaffolding.

A dedicated standalone decodable passage document focusing on the r-controlled vowel er (/er/). Includes pre-reading word warm-ups, a scaffolded story about Fern and her herd, a 3-read fluency tracker, and text-dependent comprehension questions.

A focused grammar and mechanics unit exploring essential punctuation conventions and verb tense mastery across engaging daily lessons.

A targeted 20-minute writing mini-lesson designed to help elementary writers smoothly integrate when, where, and why details into kernel sentences. Features explicit sentence structure patterns, comma conventions for introductory phrases, guided partner modeling, and hands-on sentence-stretching activities.

A phonics reference and practice word list featuring two-syllable words with open and closed syllables for early readers. Includes visual syllable anchors, categorized word lists with decoding breaks, decodable fluency sentences, and syllable detective practice.

A comprehensive 3-day opinion writing sequence for Arizona 3rd grade students centered on writing multi-paragraph opinion essays using the TEXT strategy (Topic, Evidence, eXplain, Tie) and paired informational articles, aligned with AZ ELA standard 3.W.1.

A drama comprehension lesson for third grade based on the play Two Bear Cubs in HMH Into Reading, guiding students from teacher modeling into partner and independent scene summaries.

A 1-page progress monitoring exit ticket and rapid decoding probe focusing exclusively on the r-controlled vowel er (/er/). Includes orthographic sound box dictation, sentence encoding, a 10-word decoding probe, and diagnostic scoring rubric.