Teaching Tools

Reading Fluency Playbook

  • Feb. 11, 2025, 11:02 a.m.
The Reading Fluency Playbook provides strategies for helping students improve fluency by focusing on expression, phrasing, accuracy, and reading rate. It outlines targeted interventions based on student needs and includes research-based activities to support fluency development.

Writing Responses to Reading Playbook

  • Feb. 11, 2025, 10:57 a.m.
The Writing Reading Responses Playbook is a resource designed to help teachers guide students in using writing to deepen their reading comprehension, organize their thoughts, and express their understanding. It provides strategies and structured activities for activating prior knowledge, planning responses, explaining thinking, and reflecting on new content.

Phonics and Word Study Interventions Playbook

  • Feb. 11, 2025, 10:12 a.m.
This resource provides a structured approach to phonics and word study interventions, offering targeted strategies based on students' needs. It follows an If…Then… format, ensuring teachers can diagnose and apply effective interventions.

Decodable Text Protocol

  • Feb. 11, 2025, 9:54 a.m.
The Decodable Text Protocol is a structured, multi-day approach to using decodable texts effectively in early literacy instruction. It focuses on decoding, fluency, comprehension, and expression to build reading confidence in young learners.

Comprehension Strategies Playbook

  • Feb. 11, 2025, 9:36 a.m.
The Comprehension Playbook is a resource designed to help teachers implement high-impact comprehension strategies across various phases of learning. It provides a structured approach to activating background knowledge, guiding students through processing new content, and helping them solidify and reflect on their understanding.

The Educator's Playbook for Multiplication and Division Grades 3-5

  • Jan. 21, 2025, 4:11 p.m.
The Multiplication & Division Playbook is a comprehensive resource designed to support teachers in helping students in grades 3-5 develop a strong conceptual understanding and procedural flexibility in multiplication and division.

UPSE Problem Solving Model

  • Jan. 21, 2025, 3:58 p.m.
This is a graphic organizer that guides students through the problem solving method

Small Group Protocol for Tier 1 and 2 Math

  • Jan. 21, 2025, 3:29 p.m.
This download is an outline of the lesson protocols for whole group and small groups in math classes. The protocol can be used for Tier 1 instruction or Tier 2 interventions.

Two Step Word Problems

  • Jan. 21, 2025, 3:26 p.m.
This download has ideas teachers can use to help students comprehend and solve Two (or more) step word problems.

Mild, Medium, or Spicy? What kind of problem is this?

  • Jan. 21, 2025, 2:56 p.m.
This is a graphic with varying peppers for use when scaffolding, or thin-slicing math problems.