Explicit Literacy Instruction
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Lakewood, Colorado, United States
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I’m a passionate literacy educator with 24 years of teaching experience dedicated to helping students become confident, successful readers and writers.
I am Orton-Gillingham certified and have extensive experience using structured literacy programs, including Wilson Reading System and Really Great Reading. My work is grounded in the Science of Reading, with a strong focus on explicit, systematic phonics instruction that supports all learners—especially struggling readers.
I also taught in Japan for two years, which strengthened my ability to meet the needs of diverse learners and adapt instruction across cultures.
Every resource I create is designed to be:
Research-based
Easy to implement
Effective for real classrooms
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LETRS Advanced Spelling Screener
📚 LETRS Advanced Spelling Screener | Seesaw™ Digital Assessment (Auto-Scored!) Looking for an easy, meaningful way to assess your students’ spelling skills throughout the year? This LETRS Advanced Spelling Screener is designed to help you quickly monitor student progress in phoneme-grapheme correspondences and orthographic patterns—all within a simple, engaging Seesaw™ activity! ✏️ What This Resource Does: This screener mirrors the structure and purpose of the LETRS Advanced Spelling Scree
2nd - 5th
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Science of Reading, Spelling
LETRS Basic Spelling Screener
📚 LETRS Basic Spelling Screener | Seesaw™ Digital Assessment (Auto-Scored!) Looking for an easy, meaningful way to assess your students’ spelling skills throughout the year? This LETRS Basic Spelling Screener is designed to help you quickly monitor student progress in phoneme-grapheme correspondences and orthographic patterns—all within a simple, engaging Seesaw™ activity! ✏️ What This Resource Does: This screener mirrors the structure and purpose of the LETRS Basic Spelling Screener, whic
1st - 3rd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Science of Reading, Spelling
Alphabet, Short and Long Vowels, and Consonants Posters
Eight different alphabet postersBuild a strong phonics foundation with this Alphabet, Vowels, and Consonants Poster Set! This resource includes clear, simple visuals designed to support early readers as they learn letter names, vowel sounds, and consonants. Perfect for kindergarten, first grade, and intervention groups, these posters provide a consistent visual reference for daily phonics instruction. This resource includes: Full alphabet posters (uppercase & lowercase letters) Consonants
K - 2nd
Alphabet, Phonics & Phonological Awareness
Compare & Contrast Nonfiction Paired Passages | Reading Writing Test Prep
3rd Grade Paired Passages Compare & Contrast | Nonfiction Reading Writing | Print + DigitalIncludes 10 Paired Texts + Writing Prompts + Graphic Organizers This Compare and Contrast Paired Passages resource helps students practice reading two nonfiction texts and comparing important details using evidence. These test-prep style passages are perfect for strengthening reading comprehension and writing skills. Students read two related nonfiction passages and write a response comparing similarities
2nd - 3rd
Close Reading, Reading, Writing
CCSS
RI.3.1
, W.3.4
DIBELS Fluency Chart Grades 3 | Benchmark Levels & Data Tracking
Make tracking student reading progress simple, clear, and meaningful with this 3rd grade oral reading fluency chart aligned to DIBELS benchmarks! This easy-to-use resource helps teachers quickly identify whether students are above grade level, at grade level, below grade level, or significantly below grade level across the school year. This chart includes benchmark ranges for: Beginning of Year (BOY) Middle of Year (MOY) End of Year (EOY) Students’ words read correctly per minute (WCPM) ca
3rd
Reading, Science of Reading
Open Syllable Bundle | Posters, Word Lists, & Flashcards
Science of Reading Aligned | Decoding & Multisyllabic Word PracticeDescriptionBuild strong decoding skills with this comprehensive Open Syllable Bundle! This resource includes everything you need to explicitly teach, model, and reinforce open syllables and long vowel patterns—from introduction to practice. With visual supports, structured word lists, and interactive flashcards, this bundle makes it easy to support students as they learn to read and break apart 1-, 2-, and 3-syllable words wi
PreK - 3rd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading, Science of Reading
Open and Closed Syllable Multisyllabic Flashcards
Looking for an engaging way to build strong decoding skills? These open and closed syllable multisyllabic flashcards are designed to help students practice reading and breaking apart words using short vowel patterns and syllable division strategies. Each card includes a word on the front and the same word broken into syllables on the back, making this a powerful tool for explicit phonics instruction and immediate feedback. What’s Included: Printable double-sided flashcards Single and Multisyllab
PreK - 5th
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading, Science of Reading
Also included in:Â Open Syllable Bundle | Posters, Word Lists, & Flashcards
Open Syllable Word Lists | 1–3 Syllable Decoding Practice | Science of Reading
Looking for a simple, structured way to build strong decoding skills? This open syllable word list resource is designed to support explicit phonics instruction and give students meaningful practice with short vowel patterns across 1-, 2-, and 3-syllable words. This resource includes carefully selected word lists that follow open syllable patterns—helping students strengthen their ability to decode, read, and spell with confidence. What’s Included: 4 organized word lists (20+ words each): 1-syl
PreK - 4th
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading, Science of Reading
Also included in:Â Open Syllable Bundle | Posters, Word Lists, & Flashcards
Open Syllable Poster
📚 Open Syllable Poster (With Pictures) | Phonics Anchor Chart Help your students master one of the most important early phonics skills with this open syllable poster! This visual anchor chart clearly explains what an open syllable is in a simple, student-friendly way, making it perfect for young learners. With supportive visuals and clear examples, students will better understand that an syllable has a long vowel sound and does not end with a consonant. ✏️ What’s Included: 1 clear, easy-to
PreK - 3rd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading, Science of Reading
Also included in:Â Open Syllable Bundle | Posters, Word Lists, & Flashcards
Closed Syllable Bundle | Posters, Word Lists, & Flashcards
Science of Reading Aligned | Decoding & Multisyllabic Word PracticeDescriptionBuild strong decoding skills with this comprehensive Closed Syllable Bundle! This resource includes everything you need to explicitly teach, model, and reinforce closed syllables and short vowel patterns—from introduction to practice. With visual supports, structured word lists, and interactive flashcards, this bundle makes it easy to support students as they learn to read and break apart 1-, 2-, and 3-syllable wor
PreK - 3rd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading, Science of Reading
Closed Syllable Multisyllabic Flashcards (Real & Nonsense Words)
Looking for an engaging way to build strong decoding skills? These closed syllable multisyllabic flashcards are designed to help students practice reading and breaking apart words using short vowel patterns and syllable division strategies. Each card includes a word on the front and the same word broken into syllables on the back, making this a powerful tool for explicit phonics instruction and immediate feedback. What’s Included: Printable double-sided flashcards Real words + nonsense words f
PreK - 5th
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading, Science of Reading
Also included in:Â Closed Syllable Bundle | Posters, Word Lists, & Flashcards
Closed Syllable Word Lists | 1–3 Syllable Decoding Practice | Science of Reading
Looking for a simple, structured way to build strong decoding skills? This closed syllable word list resource is designed to support explicit phonics instruction and give students meaningful practice with short vowel patterns across 1-, 2-, and 3-syllable words. This resource includes carefully selected word lists that follow closed syllable patterns—helping students strengthen their ability to decode, read, and spell with confidence. What’s Included: 4 organized word lists (20+ words each): 1
PreK - 4th
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading, Science of Reading
Also included in:Â Closed Syllable Bundle | Posters, Word Lists, & Flashcards
Closed Syllable Poster
📚 Closed Syllable Poster (With Pictures) | Phonics Anchor Chart Help your students master one of the most important early phonics skills with this closed syllable poster! This visual anchor chart clearly explains what a closed syllable is in a simple, student-friendly way, making it perfect for young learners. With supportive visuals and clear examples, students will better understand that a closed syllable has a short vowel sound and ends with a consonant. ✏️ What’s Included: 1 clear, eas
PreK - 3rd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading, Science of Reading
Also included in:Â Closed Syllable Bundle | Posters, Word Lists, & Flashcards
Digraphs, Trigraphs, and Blends Poster
📚 Phonics Posters: Digraphs, Trigraphs & Blends (With Pictures) Make phonics instruction clear, engaging, and visually supportive with this set of digraph, trigraph, and blend posters! Perfect for early readers, these posters provide students with strong visual connections between letter patterns and sounds. Each poster includes kid-friendly images to help students quickly recognize and remember each phonics pattern, making it easier to apply their learning during reading and writing. ✏️ Wha
K - 3rd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Science of Reading, Spelling
Syllable Segmenting Posters
Six posters of the steps needed to segment syllables in multisyllabic words. This follows the steps used in Really Great Reading and refers to the use of "syllaboards" which are small white boards. Students use these syllaboards to divide multisyllabic words into smaller syllables for reading.
2nd - 5th
Phonics & Phonological Awareness, Reading, Science of Reading
CKLA Unit 6 Multiple Choice Assessment for Chapters 1-5
Assess your students' ability to answer multiple choice questions using text evidence from CKLA's Reader for Unit 6.
3rd
ELA Test Prep, English Language Arts
CCSS
RL.3.1
CKLA Unit 6 Chapter 3 Multiple Choice Assessment
Assess your students' ability to answer multiple choice questions using text evidence from CKLA's Reader for Unit 6.
3rd
ELA Test Prep, English Language Arts
CCSS
RL.3.1
Also included in:Â CKLA Unit 6 Multiple Choice Assessment for Chapters 1-5
CKLA Unit 6 Chapter 2 Multiple Choice Assessment
Assess your students' ability to answer multiple choice questions using text evidence from CKLA's Reader for Unit 6.
3rd
ELA Test Prep, English Language Arts
CCSS
RL.3.1
Also included in:Â CKLA Unit 6 Multiple Choice Assessment for Chapters 1-5
CKLA Unit 6 Chapter 1
Assess your students' ability to answer multiple choice questions using text evidence from CKLA's Reader for Unit 6.
3rd
ELA Test Prep, English Language Arts
CCSS
RL.3.1
Also included in:Â CKLA Unit 6 Multiple Choice Assessment for Chapters 1-5
CKLA Unit 6 Chapter 5 Multiple Choice Assessment
This multiple choice assessment is a perfect way to practice for your state test while staying on track in your CKLA curriculum. The format is the same as a state assessment with Part A (finding the answer) and Part B (finding the evidence). I have also included at least one 3.4 CCSS question so that students can practice finding vocabulary words in context. Lastly, the assessment is a Google Form, so there is no grading and both you and your students will get their results immediately, unless y
3rd
ELA Test Prep, English Language Arts
CCSS
RL.3.1
, RL.3.4
Also included in:Â CKLA Unit 6 Multiple Choice Assessment for Chapters 1-5
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About the store
Experience
I’m a passionate literacy educator with 24 years of teaching experience dedicated to helping students become confident, successful readers and writers.
I am Orton-Gillingham certified and have extensive experience using structured literacy programs, including Wilson Reading System and Really Great Reading. My work is grounded in the Science of Reading, with a strong focus on explicit, systematic phonics instruction that supports all learners—especially struggling readers.
I also taught in Japan for two years, which strengthened my ability to meet the needs of diverse learners and adapt instruction across cultures.
Every resource I create is designed to be:
Research-based
Easy to implement
Effective for real classrooms
I’m so glad you’re here!
Awards & shining teacher moments
The Best Should Teach award from the University of Colorado in Boulder, Mile High Teacher, 10+ years Distinguished Teacher award through Denver Public Schools, Exceeds Expectations on TCAP for the last nine years.
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