Sound Slider Task Cards

Printable continuous blending task cards (8 total) featuring a visual slider design with tracking lines. Students stretch the continuant consonant and vowel, snap to the final stop sound, and circle the matching picture from three options.

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Douglas Literacy Pathway

A structured reading intervention sequence at Douglas School combining targeted phonic lessons with the multisensory Nessy online literacy system.

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Summer Reading Quest

Summer literacy communication and family engagement resources to help rising kindergarteners maintain and build reading skills over the summer break through play-based activities.

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Summer Reading Letter

A cheerful, sunny summer reading introductory letter for rising first graders and their parents at Douglas School. It details how to use their "Summer Reading Activity Bag" containing alphabet flashcards, sight word popcorn matches, and syllable hopping games, complete with a printable 20-day summer tracking chart.

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Word Wizards

A 3-lesson phonics sequence focused on teaching Vowel-Consonant-e (V-e) syllables to late first and second graders. Using a whimsical 'Word Wizards' theme, it covers foundations, vowel expansion, and blends/digraphs, complete with guides, slides, practice pages, and assessments.

Lenny

Nessy Literacy Launch

Materials and communication documents for launching and onboarding families to the Nessy Literacy Program at Douglas School.

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Nessy Parent Letter

A formal parent/guardian introductory letter from Douglas School detailing the Nessy Program literacy intervention. It highlights the program's history, multisensory learning approach, and weekly curriculum format.

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Vowel Team Shifts

A phonics intervention unit for high school readers focusing on short oo patterns, sound contrasts, and spelling application.

Alexis Paolini

Monster Maze

A lesson focusing on the silent-e syllable type (CVCe and two-syllable words) using a playful Reader's Theater sequel. Students build phonics fluency, decode key silent-e words, and collaborate on reading aloud.

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Monster Maze Teacher Guide

A teacher-facing lesson plan, pacing guide, and answer key for the "Monster Maze" curriculum. It outlines instruction strategies, discussion prompts, target silent-e phonetic concepts, and explicit answers for the student decoding worksheet.

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Phonics Breakout Series

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.

Michelle Low

Clue Hunters

A high-impact summer school prep lesson bridging NYS Regents Part 3 (Text Analysis Response) and SAT Reading (Command of Evidence). Students learn to track literary elements, construct high-scoring central idea paragraphs, and tackle SAT evidence-based questions using a unified clue-hunting methodology.

Gianna Muto

Monster Maze Slides

An interactive, beautifully themed 16:9 slide presentation introducing the silent-e rule. It covers simple CVCe, two-syllable compound words, reading preview cues, and discussion prompts, with minimum text size of 24px for maximum visibility.

Sound Slider Task Cards