A grading rubric for teachers to assess the final dictated narratives, focusing on vocabulary use, character depth, story structure, and dictation skill mastery.
An extended student activity pack featuring sound segmenting boxes with labels, a practice passage, sentence fixer activity, primary-ruled writing areas, and an enlarged "Bossy R Word Sort" section.
An extended slide deck for 2nd-grade students teaching all five r-controlled vowels. Includes sound introduction, example words, a reading passage, and interactive activities like Mystery Vowel, Sentence Detective, and Word Sorting.
A teacher-facing resource providing the spelling dictation script, answer key for the quiz, and instructional tips for teaching r-controlled vowels.
A final assessment for 2nd-grade phonics covering r-controlled vowels. Includes a reading passage with comprehension questions, a 6-word spelling dictation area, and three multiple-choice questions on one single-page layout.
A one-page student activity pack featuring segmenting tasks with enlarged Elkonin boxes, a short practice passage, sentence writing, and a vertical "Word Climb" ladder for reading fluency.
An engaging slide deck for 2nd-grade students teaching all five r-controlled vowels (ar, er, ir, or, ur) with a "Bossy R Woods" forest theme. Includes sound introduction, example words with icons, whiteboard spelling practice, and a quick check quiz.
The final word search worksheet focusing on the most difficult commonly confused word pairs like loose/lose and than/then. Closes the detective case theme.
A word search focused on object-based homophones like metal/mettle and canvas/canvass. Features an industrial materials case theme.
A word search worksheet covering social and location-based homophones like allowed/aloud and which/witch. Community case file theme.
A word search worksheet exploring homophones related to health and anatomy, like heal/heel and muscle/mussel. Professional medical case theme.
A word search targeting nature and sensory homophones like scent/sent/cent and desert/dessert. Designed with a natural science case theme.
A word search focused on movement and time-related confusions such as passed/past and through/threw/thorough. Features a "case file" investigative design.
A word search worksheet covering professional and academic homophones like principal/principle and personnel/personal. Features a business case theme.
A word search focusing on one-word vs. two-word confusions like everyday/every day and into/in to. Encourages attention to spelling and usage.
A second word search worksheet targeting verbs and nouns that are frequently confused, such as affect/effect and advice/advise. Uses a detective notebook style.
A word search worksheet focusing on basic homophones like to/too/two and their/there/they're. Features a detective case file theme with a 15x15 grid and word bank.
A teacher-facing guide with learning objectives, scaffolding strategies, success criteria, and model paragraphs for all 5 'Favorite Things' topics. Consistently formatted to fit on two pages.