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A 13-part bundle of guided-reading lesson plans, one per grade level from Kindergarten through Grade 12, each built around a grade-appropriate book (e.g., a picture book for Grade 1, "Of Mice and Men" for Grade 10, "The Great Gatsby" for Grade 11) with matching discussion, vocabulary, and comprehension activities.
A 10-day mini-unit lesson plan teaching Greek and Latin roots, vocabulary strategies (synonyms, antonyms, homophones, analogies, context clues), and word comprehension through interactive activities, games, notes, and projects.
A guided-reading lesson plan for Kindergarten built around a simple beginner-level book (referenced as "The Cat and the Hat" or similar), focused on phonics, sight-word recognition, and reading comprehension.
A guided reading lesson plan for Grade 1, built around the anchor text Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. (example picture book), targeting color/animal vocabulary, predictions from pictures, fluency through repetition and rhythm.
A guided reading lesson plan for Grade 2, built around the anchor text Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel (example Level J-K book), targeting making predictions using text clues and illustrations (Fountas & Pinnell Level J-K).
A guided reading lesson plan for Grade 3, built around the anchor text Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (Chapter 1: "Before Breakfast"), targeting characters, setting, and vocabulary.
A guided reading lesson plan for Grade 4, built around the anchor text Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (Chapter 3: "Escape"), targeting character trait analysis (Wilbur and Charlotte) and text-to-self/text/world connections.
A guided reading lesson plan for Grade 5, built around the anchor text Matilda by Roald Dahl (Chapter 7: "Miss Honey"), targeting character motivation/inference, vocabulary building, and discussion of resilience and kindness themes.
A guided-reading lesson plan built around a single chapter of the novel "Holes" by Louis Sachar, focused on comprehension and the theme of perseverance.
Free download Provides teacher-facing guided-reading lesson plans and discussion/activity materials (pre-reading questions, during-reading prompts, vocabulary, writing and discussion questions) to accompany a companion set of 6 short nonfiction reading passages on the theme of animals, places and general-knowledge topics; the passages themselves are sold/downloaded…
Free download Provides teacher-facing guided-reading lesson plans and discussion/activity materials (pre-reading questions, during-reading prompts, vocabulary, writing and discussion questions) to accompany a companion set of 6 short fiction reading passages on the theme of general middle-school life; the passages themselves are sold/downloaded separately and are not…
Provide a teacher-facing kindergarten Reader's Workshop mini-lesson pack covering foundational reading-community skills (book care, who/what/where/when/why readers read, and ways to read) using the workshop model.
A combined bundle of all 12 parts (Units A-L) of the Road to Reading phonics intervention program, designed for struggling readers who have fallen behind in basic reading skills, covering the progression from letter names through prefixes/suffixes.
Part 1 of a middle-school independent-reading unit that teaches students to metacognate about their own reading through a reading survey, personal reading history, and a poem-based reading-strategies lesson.
A comprehensive multi-part unit and lesson-plan bundle for building an independent reading practice in middle school, covering reading strategies, reading logs, summary writing, metacognitive reading responses, and setting up a classroom library.
A comprehensive genre-study unit teaching narrative nonfiction through multiple lesson plans, a book report project, and related graphic organizers and rubrics.
Interactive multi-lesson unit study introducing and expanding students' knowledge of giraffes, for elementary teachers and homeschooling/co-op families.
A comprehensive 12-unit literature teaching guide for the novel 'A Wrinkle in Time', covering pre-reading discussion, chapter study guides, vocabulary, class discussion, tests, and writing projects.
A 5-day homeschool/co-op unit study on endangered animals, focused on giant pandas, combining videos, readings, and worksheets.
A 5-day homeschool/co-op unit study curriculum teaching Alabama's capital, state bird, state flower, state flag, and state animal through videos, readings, worksheets, and interactive-notebook activities.
Deliver a 5-day, multidisciplinary unit study on puffins (an arctic animal) combining videos, readings, worksheets/discussion, and daily activities.
A structured, systematic synthetic phonics programme ('Reading Made Simple', Level 1) teaching reading, spelling, and writing together, for use with learners across a wide age range.
A 5-day unit study on the state of Indiana covering its capital, state bird (cardinal), state flower (peony), state flag, and state animal (firefly), combining videos, reading, worksheets/discussion, and hands-on/interactive-notebook activities.
A 5-day, no-prep unit study of the jaguar (a rainforest animal) combining videos, readings, worksheets, and activities for homeschool/co-op and early-elementary classroom use.