A Kindergarten ELA sequence focused on analyzing character and setting through audio-narrated stories, helping students build listening comprehension and visualization skills.
A comprehensive UKG phonics sequence for 5-6 year olds, guiding them from basic CVC blending to consonant blends, digraphs, and simple sentence reading.
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 vocabulary mastery sequence designed to help English learners and early readers build a core foundation of 300 high-frequency words. Organized across three themed modules, each featuring a complete 100-word student study packet with definitions, contextual examples, and handwriting lines, paired with high-impact instructional presentation slides.
An introductory phonics lesson for UKG students where characters Sam and Mochi sail their boat to a magical island. There, they are greeted by cute, waving letter characters—vowel teams 'ai', 'oa', 'ie', and 'ee'—who introduce their sounds and words through storytelling and search activities.
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-part comprehensive curriculum sequence mapping and teaching 150 high-frequency sight words phonetically. Includes three progressive mastery levels covering closed syllables, open syllables, silent E, vowel teams, r-controlled, and heart word decoding.
A magical phonics adventure exploring sound teams QU, OU, OI, UE, ER, AR, and OR through stories, tracing, hands-on sorting, and color-by-sound activities tailored for Kindergarten.
A highly visual, Kindergarten-adapted slide deck detailing the three core vocabulary words (Humiliated, Dreadful, Jealous) with definitions, emojis, illustrations, and student discussion prompts. Also features a dedicated interactive slide for echo reading fluency practice.
A playful, multi-day grammar adventure designed specifically for early learners aged 5-6. Young 'gardeners' learn to plant, grow, and nurture basic sentences by mastering uppercase letters, naming words, action words, and punctuation seeds.
A comprehensive phonics lesson introducing seven magic sound teams (QU, OU, OI, UE, ER, AR, OR) through an engaging narrative with Sam and Mochi. Includes interactive teacher-led slides, a multi-page student activity worksheet, a printable story-based anchor chart, and phonics matching flashcards.
A structured reading intervention sequence at Douglas School combining targeted phonic lessons with the multisensory Nessy online literacy system.
