A single-session interactive phonics lesson for early readers. Letter cards, blending activities, scoring, and video rewards.
Four progressive phonics sessions moving from letter sounds through CVC words, blends, and multisyllabic words. Grade-level tabs from Pre-K through Grade 5.
Interactive practice for all six syllable types: Closed, Open, Silent E, Vowel Team, R-Controlled, and Consonant-LE. Grade-level activities for K-1, 2-3, and 4-5.
The four narrative lessons below run as a unit, in order. Narrative Drills works as a warm-up you can also use on its own.
Twelve standalone drills across three areas: showing instead of telling with character thoughts and change, dialogue punctuation, and word and sentence power (vivid verbs, precise nouns, sentence combining). A warm-up skills bank.
Choose and sketch one true moment to write about. A full prompt menu, the story test, zooming in on the moment that matters, and a quick sketch to plan from.
Plot mountain, pacing, cutting irrelevant detail, and transitions, anchored to a mentor text the student reads alongside. Then map and draft your own story.
The craft of a strong narrative: hooks, sensory detail, dialogue, pacing, and the full endings sequence, followed by planning and writing a true story.
A 13-activity descriptive writing lesson covering sensory detail, show dont tell, figurative language, mentor text annotation, and essay writing. Built around the California Academy of Sciences.