Laboratory specimen cards featuring concrete and abstract nouns for students to sort during the Microscope Test activity.
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.
An immersive phonics escape room lesson for 3rd-grade students. Using physical locks or paper equivalents, students solve 5 phonics-based tasks covering CVC, Silent E, Digraphs/Blends, R-controlled vowels, and Vowel Teams to crack the codes and escape the Phonics Fortress.
The teacher facilitation guide and answer key for the Phonics Fortress escape room. Includes setup checklists for physical locks vs. paper-only alternatives, a read-aloud backstory script, hints for struggling students, and the full step-by-step key for all 5 tasks.
An energetic classroom phonics lesson where students compete in a friendly Knockout tournament to master vowel teams and diphthongs. Includes interactive instructional and gameplay slides, plus a student tracking sheet.
The student-facing Phonics Fortress escape room booklet containing 5 immersive, fill-in-the-blank adventure tasks covering CVC, Silent E, Digraphs/Blends, R-controlled vowels, and Vowel Teams. Each task features clear instructions, student-friendly narratives, and code-solving puzzles to unlock physical or paper locks.
An intensive intervention lesson designed to help struggling readers master main idea identification using hands-on, color-coded highlighting strategies. Students learn to dismantle paragraph structures like blueprint architects, physically separating the 'roof' (main idea) from the 'supporting pillars' (details).
A high-energy, wild safari-themed classroom game for K-3 students focusing on key phonics skills including CVC words, silent 'e', vowel teams, and multi-syllable decoding. This lesson includes a widescreen smartboard presentation, a teacher facilitation guide with word keys, and an active-participation student tracker sheet.
A printable 1-page student tournament sheet to keep all students actively spelling and engaged during the game. Includes Name/Date fields, a live face-off word tracker, and independent spelling challenges to earn back into the game.
Weekly ELA homework packets focused on high-interest animal adaptations for elementary students (K-5). Each packet contains four nights of structured work: Night 1 (Reading), Night 2 (Vocabulary), Night 3 (Comprehension Activity), and Night 4 (Comprehension Questions), customized with visual icons, sentence frames, and simplified tracking guides for varying reading levels.
A third-grade reading lesson centered on an end-of-year mystery. Students learn and practice summarizing and making inferences by examining clues around the playground to locate a missing playground item before the last recess ends.
Interactive, high-energy 15-slide presentation designed for modeling, guided review, and live classroom gameplay of Vowel Team Knockout. Includes rule slides, targeted warm-ups for all focus patterns, 8 interactive face-off challenge rounds, special event slides (Double Trouble, Free Pass), and a final showdown arena.
