Lemon Tree Literacy

***CANVA PRO USERS *** AND GOOGLE CLASSROOM VERSION NOW AVAILABLE ✍️ Tired of boring, one-line student sentences? Want to help your students LEVEL UP their writing? This engaging, interactive Canva template helps students expand their sentences step-by-step using the Rizz-O-Meter and the 5Ws method (Who, What, When, Where, Why)!Perfect for 3rd & 4th grade teachers, homeschool educators, and literacy tutors, this resource gamifies sentence writing and keeps students engaged while improvin

Make sentence expansion FUN and ENGAGING with this interactive writing resource!Struggling with short, choppy sentences in your classroom? Do your students need help connecting ideas logically? This low-prep, high-engagement lesson pack teaches students how to use the conjunctions "because, but, so" to build stronger, more meaningful sentences. What’s Inside? ✔️ Lesson 2: Intro Conjunctions Lesson (Google Slides & Canva) ✔️ Engaging visuals + sentence-building exercises ✔️ Indepen

Use this beginner sound deck to introduce new letter/sound concepts to your students! It follows the scope and sequence from Recipe for Reading and comes with original scripts and games to play when introducing each new sound. Sound/symbol concepts include: a-z and digraphs ch and sh. All of the artwork is hand drawn by me! This is a growing resource. Supplemental worksheets, digital resources, and how-to sheets are on their way!

SEESAW AND GOOGLE SLIDE COMPATIBLE. Use these decodable books with your students! Although it would be ideal to have the time to listen to each student read individually to assess word attack, fluency, decoding, and reading comprehension, we simply don't always have time in the day. With these interactive decodables, you can assign a book to your student, your student can record themselves reading the text and dragging and dropping the pieces to reflect what they read, and upload it for you to r

Help your students tackle those multisyllabic words with this word-mapping pop-it chart! I encourage students to keep a pop-it in their desk or backpack to use when they need it to apply strategies we use in our sessions to spelling in the classroom. However, sometimes students aren't allowed to have pop its in school. This sheet is a nice alternative that can be slipped into a pocket pro and kept in their desk. This resource also comes with a step-by-step video!

Similar to our CVC deck, this CCVC deck is a fun and engaging tool to help students practice a variety of skills. Practice initial blends with these self-check cards. Use them with board games, vowel intensives, and other literacy activities.

(GOOGLE SLIDES AND EASEL VERSIONS) **Help your students master summarizing with this ready-to-use resource built around the Somebody–Wanted–But–So–Then (SWBST) strategy! Perfect for grades 2–4, this collection supports comprehension, writing, and structured thinking — all while keeping students engaged with relatable, high-interest passages. Whether you're introducing summaries for the first time or refining skills in a deeper writing unit, this bundle provides everything you need: editable sl

*Note* You must have Canva PRO to download this resource. Canva Pro is FREE for educators! Similar to our "Fancy Sound Boxes," these multi-purpose sound box mats are great for mapping words with up to 6 sounds. This is a growing resource. If you have any theme requests, please feel free to send an email to info@lemontreeliteracy.com

I use this CVC card deck every single day. There are so many different ways to use them! Match (rhyme and word), bingo, build-a-word, etc.

NOTE* You must have Canva Pro to download this resource. Canva Pro is FREE for educators. https://www.canva.com/ In this activity, your students are word detectives! They use picture clues to "crack the code" to discover what CVC lies behind the mystery stick! Ask your students to identify the first sound they hear in each clue picture and write the letter that represents the sound they hear. Then, have them blend the sounds to determine what will be behind the mystery stick!

Use these interactive decodable books to track your students' progress! These are available for Seesaw users only. But will be accessible on Google Slides and Easel soon! There are 5 books in this collection. In order to read these books, your students must know how to read CVC, digraphs, CCVC and CVCC words. Each book has a first page review of the HFW and blends that they will come across in the text.

FOR IN-PERSON CLASSROOM, SEESAW, AND GOOGLE SLIDES Play this game with your virtual students!! 1 seesaw link with a blank board game template for differentiating skills :) Play 1 spin, 2 spin! 1. Select your game character. To do this, select an egg with a CVC word on it. Then, delete the egg to reveal the cute dino character! 2. Then, have your student take their first spin! Move the number of paces. If you land on a word, just have the student read the word. If you land on a picture, use the

SEESAW USERS ONLY. (But Easel and Google Slides coming soon!) Use these interactive decodable texts to practice reading digraph words. I've included digraphs ch, sh, th, th (unvoiced), and ck. There are three books in this collection, but I will be adding more with blends soon! All of the illustrations are my own. Thank you for protecting my work!

I do not use the leveling system with my students! Instead, I use this skill-step pyramid to monitor their progress. I also find this useful when speaking with parents/educators. It's a great visual aid and document to explain where my students are at. This is a growing resource. Soon to come: Games and activities you can use for each step in the pyramid. Detailed breakdowns of each step. Long-form Youtube videos. Price will increase as the resource grows!

64 CVC Bingo sheets!! Use these engaging CVC Bingo sheets as a fun supplemental reading activity! They work best with the CVC Card Deck!

NOTE* You must have Canva Pro to download this template. Canva Pro is FREE for educators! *Fancy Sound Boxes* (what TikTok followers call them, lol) Make your literacy centers/phonics instruction POP with these super engaging sound "boxes"!

BETA VERSION (lower price for now) - CANVA LINK ONLY** GOOGLE SLIDES AND SUPPLEMENTAL ACTIVITIES COMING SOON! Help your students bring text to life with this scaffolded visualization resource designed to support struggling comprehenders and enrich strong readers alike. This Mind-Movies deck introduces students to the concept of building mental images while they read—step by step, using "Guide Words." Using a gradual release model, this resource teaches students to: Understand what a mind-mov

Play this winter-themed board game to practice reading and spelling CVC and CCVC words! This resource includes TWO instructional videos, 1 seesaw link for virtual sessions, board game printables (CVC and CCVC), penguin sound mat printables (CVC and CCVC / color AND b & w). In the videos, I model how to use the virtual resource and the printable resource, as well as explain how to play "One dice, Two dice."

This bundle comes with an under the sea reading adventure game (seesaw link for virtual and printables for in-person learning) It also comes with the link to a youtube video where students build an under the sea word chain. I've included multiple variations of the seashell sound mat, printable under the sea creatures, and editable templates for the word chain, blending board and the game boards! It's everything you need to practice CVC words and edit all the the templates for any other spelling

Are you students confused about ck and k? Use this intro deck to practice using both! This resource comes with a presentation PDF, a seesaw link with a no-prep lesson, and a folder of my artwork for each tool and character!