Travel Tracks and Tails

A Pre-K sequence focused on reading comprehension through informational texts about transportation. Students learn to categorize vehicles by land, water, and air while developing print awareness, vocabulary, and comparative language skills.

On the Road Cars and Trucks

Students listen to a rhythmic text about land vehicles, practicing print tracking and identifying wheels.

In the Water Boats and Ships

The class explores a read-along about things that float. Students engage in a 'sink or float' prediction game based on the properties of boats described in the book.

Up in the Air Planes and Rockets

Students read about air travel, focusing on spatial vocabulary (up, high, above, clouds). They physically simulate flying with their arms while listening to the text descriptions.

Fast and Slow Trains

This lesson uses a text comparing different types of trains to teach comparative adjectives (fast, faster, slow, long, short). Students sort vehicle pictures by speed.

Transportation Station Sort

Students conclude the unit by sorting vehicles into land, water, and air categories on a large mural. They recall facts from the read-alouds to justify where each vehicle belongs.

Travel Tracks and Tails

Phonics Explorers Journey

A comprehensive UKG phonics sequence for 5-6 year olds, guiding them from basic CVC blending to consonant blends, digraphs, and simple sentence reading.

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Name Power

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.

James Dill

Name Power Exit Ticket

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.

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Word Builders 300

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.

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Sound Shore Voyage

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.

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Name Power Character Organizer

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.

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Sight Word Decoder Sequence

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.

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Magic Sound Teams

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.

Abdul khader Unique

Name Power Vocabulary Slides

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.

James Dill

Sentence Sprouts

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.

ziad

Magic Sound Forest

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.

Abdul khader Unique

Douglas Literacy Pathway

A structured reading intervention sequence at Douglas School combining targeted phonic lessons with the multisensory Nessy online literacy system.

Travel Tracks and Tails

Road Runners Slides

On the Road Read-Along Text

Splash and Float Slides

Splash and Float Read-Along Text

High Flyers Slides

Up in the Air Read-Along Text

Train Tracks Slides

Train Tracks Read-Along Text

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Station Sort Slides

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