Students will learn the fundamentals of digital storytelling by brainstorming, planning with a storyboard, and using digital tools to bring their narratives to life with text, images, and audio.
A comprehensive 6-week curriculum that merges collaborative book clubs with audio production. Students read and analyze self-selected texts through literary device workshops before producing, scripting, and recording a professional-grade podcast episode.
An explicit, systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) lesson bundle focusing on the consonant digraph /sh/. Includes a complete structured teacher script, visual instructional slides, and hands-on orthographic mapping worksheets.
A hands-on student sorting activity featuring printable phonetic word cards and sorting mats. Students segment target words (ship, fish, socks, etc.) and classify them based on initial or final /sh/ digraphs, or identify distractors with single /s/ sounds.
A multi-text reading companion for Lois Lowry's The Giver, designed for 5th-grade students. It connects the novel's themes of conformity, utopian control, and sensory experiences to real-world history, sociology, and science through complete student reading packets and teacher guides.
A comprehensive Middle School (Grades 6-8) ELA unit focusing on analyzing original Grimm fairy tales, exploring character archetypes and dark motifs, and composing fractured fairy tale adaptations. Includes instructional slides, reading guides, archetype worksheets, and a creative writing project planner.
A student-facing practice worksheet for Grade 1 phonics. Features handwriting tracing guides, orthographic mapping boxes (Elkonin boxes), a short decodable story reading passage, and guided lines for dictation.
A comprehensive unit teaching middle schoolers how to write professional and polished emails by mastering each structural component: subject lines, greetings, body text, and signatures.
Week 6 of the PodClub Chronicles unit. Students record, edit, and broadcast their podcast episodes, followed by a collaborative listening gallery and rigorous self/peer assessment.
Explicit instructional slides for the /sh/ digraph lesson. Aligned with the Science of Reading, featuring high-contrast text, phoneme-grapheme mappings, sound buttons, and a decodable reading slide. Strictly 24px+ font.
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.
A comprehensive, explicit, and systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) teacher guide and script for teaching the consonant digraph /sh/, aligned with Science of Reading principles. Includes an articulatory guide, pacing, step-by-step teacher dialogue, and dictation keys.
Week 6, Worksheet 3: A student-facing group reflection worksheet to debrief the podcasting production process, evaluate individual contributions, and identify lessons learned.
