A 2-day lesson sequence focused on analyzing key ideas and details in a historical informational text about the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, featuring STAAR-aligned assessment and graphic organizers.
A 9-day comprehensive novel study of 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe' by C.S. Lewis, designed for 5th-grade students and aligned with Texas TEKS. The unit focuses on character analysis, inference, plot structure, and author's purpose through daily slides, rigorous activities, and STAAR-aligned exit tickets.
A 4-day intervention sequence focused on decoding and encoding 2-syllable words with consonant-le syllables. Students practice the 'count back three' strategy, analyze vowel sounds in the first syllable, and build reading fluency through themed passages.
A 3-day ELA unit for 3rd-4th grade exploring the quirky world of 'Sideways Stories from Wayside School'. Students analyze character perspectives, explore the concept of logic versus absurdity, and compare the impossible architecture of Wayside with real-world gravity and skyscrapers.
A comprehensive unit on figurative language, taking students from basic comparisons like similes and metaphors to complex devices like oxymorons and symbolism. Students act as 'Language Scientists' in a literary lab to synthesize and analyze text.
A comprehensive unit for 3rd and 4th graders focused on mastering main idea and cause and effect through the lens of world-changing inventors and their discoveries.
A dual-unit intervention sequence for 6th grade Tier 2 decoding. Unit 1 focuses on Morphology (Lessons 1-15). Unit 2 focuses on Syllable Types and Division Patterns (Lessons 16-30) through an architectural blueprint theme.
An 8-session writing program for 6th graders focused on Ancient Egypt, utilizing Brain Frames to build independence in paragraph organization and writing. Each session targets a specific visual organization tool and a historical topic to move students from guided to independent writing.
A reading comprehension sequence for 4th graders focusing on science and nature. Students will develop skills in text structure, vocabulary analysis, and finding textual evidence through engaging passages about the natural world.
A series of reading and writing lessons using classic fables to teach main idea, supporting details, and proper sentence structure to 4th-grade students reading at a 3rd-grade level.