A comprehensive teacher guide for managing the Eco Scoop project-based learning unit. Includes a day-by-day pacing guide, mini-lessons on identifying main ideas, questioning frameworks, and a detailed scoring rubric.
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.
An SEL-focused school broadcast lesson where students write, film, and direct an "Emotional Weather Report". Students learn how to "read the room" and use Zones of Regulation terms to identify feelings and select coping tools for emotional self-regulation.
A 1-page student-facing assessment called the Newsroom Proofreader Assessment. Includes an environmental reading passage, a main idea headline box, supporting detail fields, and beautifully aligned multiple-choice questions.
A collection of engaging, highly scaffolded reading comprehension classroom mysteries designed for elementary students to practice evidence analysis and persuasive writing.
An interactive phonics lesson where students write, film, and perform their own school news broadcast. Students master single-syllable ea/ee words and past-tense ed rules (/t/, /d/, /id/) through collaborative scriptwriting and digital storytelling.
An emergent-reader version of the emotional weather script worksheet. Features highly simplified, large-print sentence stems for reading the room, identifying zones, and using coping tools.
A math place value unit focusing on identifying digit values through the thousands place with interactive detective-themed worksheets and puzzles.
An immersive project-based learning unit where students become junior journalists. They research environmental topics, extract main ideas and key details, write their own nature articles, and construct 3D models of their subjects.
A simplified, large-print version of the phonics script worksheet. Features highly structured sentence stems for ea/ee and past-tense ed verbs, ideal for supporting inclusive classroom learning or ELL students.
A structured reading intervention sequence at Douglas School combining targeted phonic lessons with the multisensory Nessy online literacy system.
A single-page Mad Lib script worksheet for the 'Lunchroom emotional weather' prompt. Students read cafeteria clues, determine zones of regulation, select coping tools, and use the filming checklist.
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.
