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Help your students become reading detectives! 🕵️‍♀️ This colorful, kid-friendly poster teaches students how to determine an author's purpose using a simple flowchart and the memorable PIE strategy: 📢 Persuade📚 Inform🎭 EntertainPerfect for first grade, second grade, and intervention groups, this visual guide walks students through a series of questions to help them identify whether an author wants to entertain, inform, or persuade. ✨ What's Included ✅ Full-page 8.5 x 11 color poster ✅ Easy

🌈 Rainbow Elkonin Boxes – Digital Phonics ToolMake phoneme segmentation and orthographic mapping visual, interactive, and engaging with these Rainbow Elkonin Boxes! Practice high frequency words or "sight words" with this Science of Reading-friendly tool, the Alphabet Arc. This resource helps students break words into sounds while building strong phonics foundations — perfect for whole group, small group, intervention, and independent practice. What is an Alphabet Arc? An alphabet arc is a t