A comprehensive teacher-facing guide with five scaffolded discussion prompts to help students reflect on the importance of legibility after the Secret Message Activity.
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.
Day 5 student worksheet for Vowel Team Temple. Features a sacred temple sanctuary theme, name/date inputs, 3 vowel-team word-solving riddles, a look-up charter key, and a designated combination box to solve a 3-digit numeric code lock.
A foundational vocabulary and morphology unit designed specifically for high school newcomer ESL students. It focuses on breaking down unfamiliar English words into high-frequency prefixes, suffixes, and root words using heavy visual aids, scaffolded sentence stems, and highly collaborative activities.
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 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 accelerated, high-impact review of Fundations Level 2 phonics concepts, consolidating Units 11-17 into an intensive curriculum. This sequence focuses on double vowel syllables (vowel teams), multi-syllabic words, and essential high-frequency heart words to build rapid decoding and spelling mastery.
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 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.
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 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 2 student worksheet for Silent E Summit. Features a snowy mountain peak theme, name/date inputs, 4 contextual spelling challenges with Silent E words (CVCE), and a designated combination box to solve a 4-letter word lock.
