Shoe Box Homework Kit
A take-home early-literacy homework kit built around a shoe theme, designed for parent-supervised activities practicing tracing, matching, counting, and vocabulary with a kindergartener.
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A take-home early-literacy homework kit built around a shoe theme, designed for parent-supervised activities practicing tracing, matching, counting, and vocabulary with a kindergartener.
An A1-level (beginner) English graded reader picture-book story about a girl named Mia who grows a magic flower through patience and kindness, with a supporting word list and comprehension activities.
A take-home early-math homework kit built around a shopping theme, designed for parent-supervised activities practicing counting money, reading a coordinate/mall map, and writing.
A simple graphic-organizer activity for identifying the main idea and supporting details of any read-aloud text.
Read-aloud companion activity for the book 'Dragons Love Tacos' in which students write an 'I Am' poem from the dragon character's perspective.
A set of open-ended question cards used after reading a story or discussing a topic aloud, to confirm student understanding of key details and story elements and to prompt requesting clarification when something is not understood.
A digital PowerPoint book-study deck for a whole-class read-aloud of 'Creepy Carrots' by Aaron Reynolds, building reading comprehension and story-element skills.
A cross-curricular animal-study unit on raccoons combining nonfiction reading, discussion, crafts, and writing/report activities for young learners.
Teaches the 'Five Finger Retell' strategy for retelling fiction stories by identifying characters, setting, problem, sequence of events, and solution.
A cross-curricular Pre-K/Kindergarten unit combining a short narrative reading passage about a family zoo visit (featuring monkeys, giraffes, and penguins) with follow-up drawing, matching, and maze worksheets.
Assesses students' active engagement in group reading activities, per the evidenced RL.K.10 answer key ('Record student behavior as they read in a small group and respond to what they have read/heard').
A social-emotional learning unit teaching 'whole body listening' (eyes, ears, mouth, hands, feet, brain, heart all engaged), combined with listening games, a mindfulness listening walk, worksheets, and an emergent reader.
Literacy unit built around a class read-aloud of the book referred to as 'Alexander and the Bad Day', with before/during/after reading activities plus a personal-narrative writing and vocabulary component.
A digital (slide-deck) book-study companion for 'Ninja Red Riding Hood,' with a micro-learning lesson including a read-aloud, sequencing, story-element, comprehension and quick-write activities.
Illustrated phonics story ('Let's Go On A Ride', featuring the character Zoggy) that reinforces long vowel sounds, magic e, and vowel digraphs through a narrative, plus a caregiver-guided sound-out and spelling exercise.
Illustrated phonics story ('Zoggy In The Lion Pen') reinforcing long vowel sounds, magic e (silent e), and vowel digraphs through a narrative, plus a caregiver-guided sound-out and spelling exercise.
Teaches recognition of silent letters through a short decodable story and a matched word list, as part of a phonics-based reading scheme.
Early literacy/science unit introducing basic facts about worms through a story, song, finger play, and hands-on activities.
Illustrated phonics story ('Zoggy Is Lost') reinforcing long vowel sounds, magic e (silent e), and vowel digraphs (ee, ar, er, ir, or, ur, oo) through a narrative, plus a caregiver-guided sound-out and spelling exercise.
Illustrated phonics story ('Zoggy At The Zoo') reinforcing long vowel sounds, magic e (silent e), and vowel digraphs (ee, ar, er, ir, or, ur, oo) through a narrative, plus a caregiver-guided sound-out and spelling exercise.
Illustrated phonics story ('Zoggy At The Garden Centre') reinforcing long vowel sounds, magic e (silent e), and vowel digraphs (ee, ar, er, ir, or, ur, oo) through a narrative, plus a caregiver-guided sound-out and spelling exercise.
A differentiated ELA worksheet packet built around a 'Mouse in the House' story and companion YouTube video, giving young learners practice with vocabulary, idioms, rhyming, numbers, and grammar skills.
A social story teaching students to understand and navigate the social experience of working cooperatively in a group.
A social-emotional learning packet for children with ADHD, combining an illustrated read-aloud story ('My Busy Brain') with matching worksheets on identifying emotions, executive functioning, and healthy coping skills, plus optional hands-on sensory/coping game instructions.