Teacher Lessons

Interactive, fully-editable lessons provided in a slide deck format. 

New format includes:

• Learning Targets

• Success Criteria

• Launch

• Teach

• Guided Practice

• Practice

• Assessment

• Closure

• Support 

• Extension

• Movement

Microlearning Videos (Grades 3-5)

Short videos provide standards-based instruction in a delightful and engaging way in English & Spanish.

• Bite-sized activities
• One standard
• Self-rating
• Direct Instruction
• Technology Enhanced Items (TEIs) 
• Informative Data

Letter Books (PK-2)

Printable stories that can be used with students to gain familiarity with the alphabet in English & Spanish.

• Exposure to letter sounds
• Concepts of print
• Early literacy skills

E-books are printable in color or as blackline masters. 

Letter Videos (PK-2)

Istation's new Letter Room Videos are the first step in our systematic phonics instruction. 

• Exposure to letter sounds in several different vignettes with clear and distinct pronunciation of the phonemes
• See letters represented in different fonts
• Incorporated into teacher lessons

Close Reading Guides

Printable activities guide students through closely examining a piece of text.

• Complex texts
• Rereading deliberately
• Frequent questioning and discussion
• Text-dependent questions
• Inferencing
• Annotation

Backward Design Framework Documents

Printable documents that deconstruct a standard to facilitate backward design.

• Goal clarification - use of standards and curriculum expectations to determine goals for the lesson
• Defined learning targets and success criteria - How will we know that the goals for learning were met
• Assessment examples - possible ways for students to demonstrate understanding
• Learning plan - instructional strategies that will effectively help meet goals