Reading Roots Phonics

A three-part multi-day decoding sequence where special education students train as spaceship crewmates, mastering short vowel sounds, phoneme blending, and whole CVC word decoding to identify alien impostor words.

Students apply their decoding skills in an Among Us inspired deduction game, reading CVC mission cards, verifying authentic crewmate words, and ejecting impostor words.

Comprehensive teacher master answer key, card directory, emergency vote solution, and post-game phonics debrief protocol for the Impostor Showdown game.

A compassionate, gradual sequence designed for autistic learners to build handwriting tolerance without anxiety, using micro-intervals, sensory regulation, and radical student agency.

Students calibrate thrusters by sounding out and blending individual consonant and vowel phonemes using tactile sound dots and blending slides.

A print-ready student game recording sheet and deduction log where players record decoded words, check Crewmate or Impostor status, and cast emergency ejection votes.

A multi-day 5th grade instructional sequence on polysemous (multiple-meaning) words. Students progress from concrete, familiar dual-meaning words to challenging academic homonyms, using visual cues and sentence frames to construct original paired sentences.

Students inspect spaceship fuel canisters by isolating and identifying short vowel sounds (a, e, i, o, u) within CVC words using visual picture supports and sound boxes.

Eight printable spaceship-themed game cards with dashed cut lines, uniform styling, large typography, and tactile sound dots for decoding authentic and impostor CVC words.

A comprehensive 3-day mini-unit for 7th grade English guiding students through the complete literary analysis essay writing process analyzing Ray Bradbury's 'A Sound of Thunder,' from close reading and claim formulation to evidence synthesis and structured drafting.

A substitute-ready visual review lesson on character, setting, and 1-2-3 story sequencing designed for Deaf and hard-of-hearing early learners. Covers the six Unit 1 stories: The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Milkmaid, The Goose and the Golden Egg, The Fox and the Grapes, Peter Rabbit, and The Prodigal Son.

Visual game directions and rules for the Among Us inspired CVC decoding game, tailored for special education small groups and sensory walk activities.