Spelling Squad

A 3-day narrative writing unit for first graders that guides students through planning characters and setting, drafting a three-part fictional tale with sentence starters, and editing conventions.

A third-grade paired reading comprehension unit featuring a realistic fiction story and a lyrical poem about perseverance and flight, aligned to Grade 3 TEKS reading standards.

A comprehensive 2-page teacher answer key and TEKS alignment guide for the Wind Weavers paired assessment, complete with item rationales, distractor analyses, and SCR scoring exemplars.

A comprehensive foundational phonics sequence targeting glued and welded sound units (-nk and -ng families) through multisensory finger-tapping, sound-box mapping, and paired word building.

A comprehensive phonics decoding card and decodable passage toolkit covering short vowels (a, e, i, o, u), double 'ee' vowel digraphs, silent e patterns (a_e, i_e, o_e, u_e), and both sounds of the 'oo' vowel team (short /ʊ/ and long /uː/). Students isolate phonemes with Elkonin sound buttons, build fluency with blending arrows, and apply skills in decodable stories with first-grade sight words.

A 4-page Grade 3 paired reading comprehension test featuring a short story ('The Patchwork Kite') and a poem ('Wind Dancer') with 12 TEKS-aligned questions, including multiple-choice and a short constructed response.

A two-part foundational reading and phonics unit covering syllable division rules (VC/V vs. V/CV) and explicit mastery of pure Long Vowel Team phonograms.

Day 3 empowers students to edit and polish their fictional tales using an editing checklist for capitalization, ending marks, spelling, and organization alongside a teacher rubric.

A 2nd-grade opinion writing prompt and worksheet comparing gas lamps and electric light. Features kid-friendly language, a transition word bank, an opinion checklist, and handwriting lines.

A 3rd-grade listening comprehension and science/social studies sequence where students practice active listening strategies with high-interest nonfiction read-alouds and guided note templates.

Day 2 guides students in transforming their story plans into a written draft using three structured sentence starters across a beginning, middle, and end.

Complete set of oversized, lamination-ready flashcards for Fry's Tenth 100 Instant Words (words 901–1,000). Formatted 4 cards per page across 25 print-ready sheets with dashed cut lines and celebratory milestone rank badges.