Reading Radar Assessment

A comprehensive baseline reading assessment for 5th grade students, designed specifically for virtual tutoring environments. Includes oral reading fluency, word recognition, and comprehension components.

BWBrylee Ware

Reading Radar Assessment

BWBrylee Ware

Adventure Mode

A three-lesson tutoring sequence designed for an incoming 5th grader that merges video game concepts (minimaps, quest logs, crafting) with real-world wilderness survival skills and historical expeditions. Each lesson includes a student-facing activity packet with grammar, reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing, plus a teacher guide.

Genevieve Eubanks

Vowel Detectives Short E and I

A highly structured small-group intervention lesson designed to help second graders distinguish between short e (/e/) and short i (/i/) sounds. Using a 'Vowel Detectives' theme, the lesson guides students through systematic phonological awareness, contextual decoding, and self-correction strategies in sentence-level reading.

Daniela

Vowel Detectives Clue Cards

A single-page printable sheet containing 6 detective 'Clue Cards' for cutting out. Each card features a contextual sentence with a mixed-up short e or short i sound, designed for hands-on, guided decoding and self-correction work during small-group instruction.

Daniela

Sound Shifters Phonics

A comprehensive, detective-themed 2-day phonics unit for 4th graders to master the hard and soft sounds of 'c' and 'g' using structured inquiry, visual anchor charts, and scaffolded practice worksheets.

Lenny

Rising Voices Theater

A reader's theater lesson focused on Esperanza's pivotal transition from a wealthy ranch owner's daughter in Mexico to a migrant worker in California, highlighting themes of humility, friendship, and resilience.

Julia Turner

Vowel Detectives Student Detective Log

A student-facing worksheet designed as an official detective case log. Students read contextual sentences, identify the vowel sound error (short e/i confusion), apply the self-correction checklist, write the corrected word on physical lines, and solve the cases.

Daniela

RACES Rescue

A targeted multi-day academic intervention sequence for fifth-grade readers struggling to synthesize main ideas and explain text evidence. Using the structured RACES writing framework, students transition from copying raw details to providing robust, analytical explanations of how their cited evidence proves their claims.

Daniela

Crafting and Bushcraft

Examines the popular mechanics of resource gathering and crafting in video games alongside real-world bushcraft, shelter building, and survival tool creation. Students develop spelling, reading comprehension, and creative design writing.

Genevieve Eubanks

Vowel Detectives Teacher Guide

A 2-page teacher guide and explicit script for a small-group intervention focusing on short e (/e/) and short i (/i/) vowel sounds. Features step-by-step instructional routines, explicit teacher scripts, a student self-correction checklist, and an answer key for the student activities.

Daniela

Evidence Bridge Unit

A targeted fifth-grade reading intervention unit focused on helping students move from rote copying of text evidence to explaining its connection to the main idea. The unit uses a construction-themed 'Evidence Bridge' metaphor to scaffold student understanding, provide guided practice, and monitor progress.

Daniela

Quest Logs and Expeditions

Compares video game quest narratives and inventory management with the actual journals and pack lists of historical explorers. Students read about legendary expeditions, identify parts of speech, and practice narrative journaling.

Genevieve Eubanks

Yarn Doll Script

A multi-character reader's theater script for 5th grade based on the poignant train scene from Esperanza Rising, where Esperanza struggles with her class prejudices when a poor child wants to touch her porcelain doll, leading to Mama's creation of a simple yarn doll. includes role descriptions and discussion questions.

Reading Radar Assessment

Reading Radar Teacher Guide