Skill Buddies Monthly Calendar Document

A multi-day 5th grade instructional sequence on polysemous (multiple-meaning) words. Students progress from concrete, familiar dual-meaning words to challenging academic homonyms, using visual cues and sentence frames to construct original paired sentences.

A reading comprehension assessment unit for Jake Drake, Know-It-All by Andrew Clements covering Chapters 1-6, featuring a student quiz and an educator answer key.

A two-page teacher answer key and assessment guide aligned to the chapter-by-chapter format for Jake Drake, Know-It-All (Chapters 1–6), including quick-score matrices, textual rationales, chronology key, written response rubrics, and discussion points.

A comprehensive 3-day mini-unit for 7th grade English guiding students through the complete literary analysis essay writing process analyzing Ray Bradbury's 'A Sound of Thunder,' from close reading and claim formulation to evidence synthesis and structured drafting.

An interactive early literacy lesson focused on story structure and narrative sequencing. Students explore beginning, middle, and end through an engaging read-aloud, collaborative picture card sequencing, and peer-to-peer oral retelling.

A two-page printable reading comprehension quiz for Jake Drake, Know-It-All with a dedicated question for each of Chapters 1 through 6, followed by chapter chronology and in-depth written response questions.

A multi-day Grade 6 reading comprehension sequence focused on citing textual evidence, uncovering themes through literary details, and writing objective summaries.

A 3-part collection of close reading lessons and Hot Text assessments featuring excerpts from Annie Barrows' Ivy and Bean series. Covers two close reading case studies and a formative Check for Understanding (CFU) aligned to Arizona standards 3.RL.1, 3.RL.4, and 3.RL.9.

A structured peer retelling discussion resource featuring partner role mats, visual sentence stems, active listening coaching prompts, and story structure question cards.

A two-part Grade 6 literature sequence analyzing explicit evidence, logical inferences, theme development through story details, and objective summaries.

A comprehensive middle-grade reading lesson guiding students to uncover, distinguish, and justify an author's central claim using clue words, supporting evidence, and text structure across three original short stories.

A student-facing narrative sequencing activity featuring a Beginning, Middle, and End story trail mat, cut-and-paste picture cards from the read-aloud, and oral retelling check-ins.