A unit designed to improve reading comprehension and writing skills for high school students using the highly engaging themes of animation, K-pop, and movie studios.
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.
A Kindergarten-adapted read-aloud lesson for Chrysanthemum. It incorporates echo reading fluency practice, deep vocabulary instruction, character change mapping, and scaffolded checks for understanding.
A Kindergarten-friendly, multiple-choice exit ticket assessing Chrysanthemum's character change and her feelings about her name. Includes a dedicated multiple-choice question targeting the IEP student's main idea goal.
A comprehensive, year-long academic vocabulary system mapping 32 critical Greek and Latin roots across 16 bi-weekly cycles (covering 160 class sessions), designed specifically to build NYS Regents reading comprehension and decoding autonomy.
Guides and structures for teachers to design and modify reading comprehension lessons with Lenny. Includes both visual flowcharts and classic academic table formats.
A student-facing graphic organizer for Kindergarteners to map Chrysanthemum's character change. It features simple emoji selection choices (happy, humiliated, blooming) and large drawing panels for the story's beginning, middle, and end.
A 3-day introductory sequence for high school Juniors preparing to read The Great Gatsby. Students explore F. Scott Fitzgerald's autobiographical connections, analyze the music, fashion, and consumerism of the Roaring Twenties through primary source stations, and investigate the elusive American Dream, class divides, and Prohibition through a digital WebQuest, reading passage, and formative quiz.
Students investigate the letter 'g', discovering when it makes its hard /g/ sound versus its soft /j/ sound, followed by interactive detective decoding and contextual word-sorting practice.
Students investigate the letter 'c', discovering the rule for when it makes its hard /k/ sound versus its soft /s/ sound, followed by interactive detective practice and word-sorting activities.
A 35-minute small group reading lesson designed for five 3rd-grade students who are below benchmark in decoding. The lesson focuses on consonant blends and digraphs (str, spl, sh, ch), fluency modeling, and identifying the main idea of a non-fiction text about hermit crabs.
