November Highlights Newsletter

A four-week second-grade whole-class fluency intervention that shifts the focus from rapid reading to phrasing, expression, and deep comprehension. Over twenty daily ten-minute routines, students learn to slow down, scoop words into meaningful chunks, and track their growth using thoughtful self-monitoring rubrics.

A complete Grade 3 practice assessment unit on Viking ships and shipbuilding, featuring paired informational passages, vocabulary and comprehension questions, written response with text evidence, grammar editing, and a companion vocabulary study guide.

A 3-day independent spelling practice booklet for early elementary students based on sound tapping, orthographic mapping, and retrieval practice. Designed to work with any weekly 8-word list, featuring daily 10-15 minute routines: Day 1 Tap & Map, Day 2 Pattern Detective & Build, and Day 3 Fold, Cover, Write & Check.

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').

A comprehensive progress monitoring toolkit designed to evaluate and record a student's ability to answer reading comprehension questions by restating the prompt. It features standardized student monitoring probes and an educator scoring and mastery tracking guide.

A 2-page teacher answer key and scoring guide updated to match the grouping of Passage 1 questions, Passage 2 questions, paired-passage synthesis questions, and grammar editing.

A multi-grade leveled vocabulary series featuring AAC-supported communication cards, hands-on cut-apart matching cards, and tie-together keepsake student booklets.

A focused 30-minute speaking practice lesson for 2nd grade English learners preparing for the WIDA ACCESS Speaking test. Students practice oral descriptions, visual comparisons, and step-by-step explanations using tiered sentence frames and partner rehearsal.

A 2-page vocabulary guide organized strictly by passage, featuring Passage 1 vocabulary terms and definitions on Page 1 with the person vs. ship clarification, and Passage 2 shipbuilding vocabulary terms plus review activities on Page 2.

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

A 40-minute interactive kindergarten read-aloud lesson focused on comprehending and answering 'Where' questions using picture clues, spatial preposition anchors, and scaffolded oral sentence stems.

A 5-page Grade 3 practice assessment featuring 'Words to Know' vocabulary preview boxes at the beginning of Passage 1 and Passage 2, followed by passage-specific questions, paired synthesis questions, and grammar editing.