Lesson Portfolio

This week-long kindergarten writing unit focuses on developing students' ability to narrate events using a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing, aligned with CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.3. Students will learn to describe a single event or a sequence of loosely connected events, explain the order in which they occurred (beginning, middle, and end), and express a reaction to what happened. Through read-alouds, modeling, guided practice, and independent activities, students will practice storytelling skills, enhance their vocabulary, and build confidence in expressing their ideas. The unit culminates in students creating and sharing a narrative booklet featuring drawings and simple sentences, showcasing their understanding of sequencing and reactions.

This kindergarten math intervention lesson is designed to strengthen foundational number sense skills through targeted small group instruction focused on counting, numeral recognition, quantity representation, one-to-one correspondence, and comparing sets . Using hands-on manipulatives, visual supports, and explicit teacher modeling, students practice building numbers, matching numerals to quantities, and determining more, less, or equal through guided and independent activities. The lesson is intentionally flexible and data-driven to address individual student needs while building confidence, mathematical understanding, and early problem-solving skills through differentiated support and ongoing formative assessment. 

In this 2nd-grade phonics lesson, students will explore the vowel team "ee," learning that it makes the long /ē/ sound. Through interactive activities, such as word sorting, reading decodable sentences, and completing worksheets, students will practice identifying, reading, and spelling "ee" words. The lesson incorporates visuals, hands-on manipulatives, and opportunities for independent and group work, ensuring engagement and reinforcing the spelling-sound correspondence of the "ee" vowel team.

This small group first grade reading intervention lesson targets foundational phonics skills aligned to RF.1.3 by providing explicit, data-driven instruction in decoding regularly spelled one-syllable words through letter-sound correspondence, blending, and word analysis strategies . Students engage in a structured sequence of teacher modeling, guided practice with hands-on phonics activities, and independent decoding using decodable words and text. Designed for intervention, the lesson uses targeted support, immediate feedback, and multisensory strategies to strengthen decoding accuracy, build confidence, and help students apply phonics patterns to unfamiliar words, with differentiation and accommodations included to meet individual learner needs

In this 2nd-grade phonics lesson, students will explore the vowel team "ee," learning that it makes the long /ē/ sound. Through interactive activities, such as word sorting, reading decodable sentences, and completing worksheets, students will practice identifying, reading, and spelling "ee" words. The lesson incorporates visuals, hands-on manipulatives, and opportunities for independent and group work, ensuring engagement and reinforcing the spelling-sound correspondence of the "ee" vowel team.

In this 3rd grade math lesson, students will develop an understanding of equivalent fractions and fraction comparison through hands-on exploration, visual models, and mathematical discussion aligned to standard 3.NF.A.3. Students will learn to identify equivalent fractions and compare fractions with the same numerator or denominator by reasoning about size using fraction strips, drawings, and number lines. The lesson begins with an engaging introduction that activates prior knowledge, followed by explicit instruction with teacher modeling and think-alouds. Students will then practice collaboratively and independently as they explain their reasoning using math vocabulary, symbols, and visual representations. Differentiation, accommodations, and extension opportunities ensure all learners can access the content while being appropriately challenged, with formative assessment and an exit ticket used to monitor understanding. 

This 3rd grade social studies lesson introduces students to the historical events that led to Michigan becoming a state, aligned to Michigan standard H3.0.9. Through discussion, informational reading, timeline sequencing, and writing activities, students explore key milestones such as Michigan’s territorial status, population growth, the Toledo boundary dispute, and official statehood in 1837. The lesson helps students build historical understanding by organizing events in chronological order, using social studies vocabulary, and explaining how important events contributed to Michigan attaining statehood.

This 4th grade reading lesson focuses on helping students develop close reading comprehension skills by using details and examples from a literary text to answer questions, explain explicit information, and make inferences aligned to RL.4.1. Through teacher modeling, guided discussion, and independent practice, students learn to identify text evidence, distinguish between what the author states directly and what readers can infer, and support their thinking with examples from the text. The lesson incorporates collaborative discussion, graphic organizers, and formative assessment to strengthen comprehension, critical thinking, and evidence-based responses while providing differentiated support for diverse learners.