A comprehensive 3rd-grade literacy unit themed around a secret detective agency. Students build foundational skills like sight word recognition and transition into high-stakes state test preparation through engaging, investigative missions.
A comprehensive 5-day phonics curriculum for grades K-3 using a detective agency theme. Students progress from sound sleuths to master linguists, uncovering the secrets of CVC words, blends, digraphs, silent e, vowel teams, and multi-syllabic words through investigative play and structured practice.
A comprehensive collection of practice materials for the 'Within Word Pattern' stage of word study, featuring sentence completion and word search activities for sorts 13 through 50.
A vocabulary sequence focusing on context clue strategies to help 3rd-4th grade students decode unfamiliar words.
A series of lessons focused on developing reading comprehension through mystery stories, with tiered assignments for different grade levels.
A comprehensive sequence on language mechanics, from phonetic marking of complex vowel sounds to the morphological analysis of Latin roots and affixes. Students develop deep decoding and encoding skills by investigating the building blocks of words.
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.