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A teacher-facing profile for every passage set, showing how the reading grows across the four stamina levels. Each report includes a Beat Breakdown, a paragraph by paragraph map of how much happens in the passage.

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The Recess Question & The Traveling Shell

The foundation set that establishes the reading routine before Cluster 1.

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Cluster 1

The Pilgrims Chose Plymouth & Life Along the Nile River

Informational history, with beats paired to every evidence location.

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Cluster 2

Laura Ingalls Wilder & Carmen Lomas Garza

Biography, with beats paired to every evidence location.

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Cluster 3

Why We Need Laws & The Lunchroom Discoveries

A poem and a drama, each at four stamina levels, with beats paired to every evidence location.

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Cluster 4

Benjamin Franklin and Electricity & The Founding Fathers

Science and civics history, with a Beat Breakdown for each passage.

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Cluster 5

Henry Ford & Sam Walton

Visionary biographies, with a Beat Breakdown for each passage.

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Cluster 6

Crash & The Good Citizen

Narrative, with a Beat Breakdown in the story's own terms, each beat and its sentences.

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Cluster 7

A Dream Can Grow & What Will You Give?

Poetry, measured in lines and couplets.

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Cluster 8

A Place to Grow & People Make the Difference

The research capstone, measured in text units.

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Text Complexity and Reading Stamina Reports — Grade 4

A teacher-facing profile for every passage set, showing how the reading grows across the four stamina levels, with word, sentence, paragraph, and syllable counts computed directly from the passages.

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Dream & Serve

The foundation set that establishes the reading routine before the numbered clusters.

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Cluster 1

A Promise Written Long Ago & Morning in the Village

Both readings profiled at Low, Medium, High, and Very High stamina.

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Cluster 2

The Energy We Use Everyday & Columbus’s Arrival

Both readings profiled at Low, Medium, High, and Very High stamina.

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Cluster 3

A Lone Star Choice & Making it Happen

Both readings profiled at Low, Medium, High, and Very High stamina.

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Cluster 4

The Wealth of Mansa Musa & Four Regions, One Big Adventure

Both readings profiled at Low, Medium, High, and Very High stamina.

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Cluster 5

Looking Back to Move Forward & Voices That Shaped Texas

Both readings profiled at Low, Medium, High, and Very High stamina.

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Cluster 6

A Day That Changed & Understanding the Texas Regions

Both readings profiled at Low, Medium, High, and Very High stamina.

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Cluster 7

The Roads Between Us & What We Carry Forward

Both readings profiled at Low, Medium, High, and Very High stamina.

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Cluster 8

What Shapes a Society? (Research Capstone)

The research capstone, with four module readings each profiled.

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Text Complexity and Reading Stamina Reports — Grade 5

A teacher-facing profile for every passage set, showing how the reading grows across the four stamina levels, with word, sentence, paragraph, and syllable counts computed directly from the passages.

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The Great Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery & The Fifth-Grade Cookie Commission

The foundation set that establishes the reading routine before the numbered clusters.

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Cluster 1

From Tension to Revolution & The Ocean Lesson

Both readings profiled at Low, Medium, High, and Very High stamina.

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Cluster 2

Spanish Rule in Early Texas & A Harvest to Remember

Both readings profiled at Low, Medium, High, and Very High stamina.

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Cluster 3

Our Rights, Our Voices & A Voice of Their Own

Both readings profiled at Low, Medium, High, and Very High stamina.

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Cluster 4

The Garden That Wouldn’t Grow & Words That Changed a Nation

Both readings profiled at Low, Medium, High, and Very High stamina.

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Cluster 5

A Difficult Compromise & A Visit to the Workshop

Both readings profiled at Low, Medium, High, and Very High stamina.

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Cluster 6

A Voice in the Community & A Gift that Welcomed Millions

Both readings profiled at Low, Medium, High, and Very High stamina.

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Cluster 7

One Voice Can Start a Wave & Try, Learn, Change

Both readings profiled at Low, Medium, High, and Very High stamina.

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Cluster 8

How a Nation Changes (Research Capstone)

The research capstone, with four module readings each profiled.

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Triplets: The Standards Slide Deck MagazineWhat a Triplet is, every set we offer for Grades 3 to 5, and more than 20 ways to use them beyond the 20 minute standards block. Download and print.Open the magazine (PDF) →

TEKS Standards Slide Deck Triplets — Grade 3

Short daily slide sets, thirty six sheets across the year. Each set comes in three parts, the slides, the teacher scripts, and the student tracking sheets, all opening right in your browser.

Editing

All thirty six sheets, Prepare through Cluster 8, numbered Sheet 1 of 36 through 36 of 36.

Slides Teacher Scripts Tracking Sheets Why it works (magazine)

Editing Part Two

The twenty eight editing standards not taught in Part One, Clusters 2 through 7, each with its own slides, script, and tracking sheet.

Slides Teacher Scripts Tracking Sheets Why it works (magazine)

Revising

All thirty six sheets, Prepare through Cluster 8, numbered Sheet 1 of 36 through 36 of 36.

Slides Teacher Scripts Tracking Sheets Why it works (magazine)

Spelling

All thirty six sheets, Prepare through Cluster 8, every word drawn from that cluster's reading, in the plum spelling family.

Slides Teacher Scripts Tracking Sheets Why it works (magazine)

Writing

All thirty six sheets, Prepare through Cluster 8, the genre and process moves for the year, in the mauve writing family.

Slides Teacher Scripts Tracking Sheets Why it works (magazine)

Evidence

All thirty six sheets, Prepare through Cluster 8, collecting and weighing text evidence with the TRACKS and CSI habits, in the orange evidence family.

Slides Teacher Scripts Tracking Sheets Why it works (magazine)

Explanation

All thirty six sheets, Prepare through Cluster 8, explaining evidence with the DEEP FACTS habits, Definition, Example, and Story.

Slides Teacher Scripts Tracking Sheets Why it works (magazine)

Paraphrasing

All thirty six weeks, Prepare through Cluster 8, paraphrasing a text so it keeps the meaning, the facts, and the logical order, TEKS (7)(D).

Slides Teacher Scripts Tracking Sheets Why it works (magazine)

TEKS Standards Slide Deck Triplets — Grade 4

Short daily slide sets, thirty six sheets across the year. Each set comes in three parts, the slides, the teacher scripts, and the student tracking sheets, all opening right in your browser.

Editing

All thirty six sheets, Prepare through Cluster 8, numbered Sheet 1 of 36 through 36 of 36.

Slides Teacher Scripts Tracking Sheets Why it works (magazine)

Editing Part Two

The Part Two editing standards for every cluster, Prepare through Cluster 8, each with its own slides, script, and tracking sheet.

Slides Teacher Scripts Tracking Sheets Why it works (magazine)

Revising

All thirty six sheets, Prepare through Cluster 8, numbered Sheet 1 of 36 through 36 of 36.

Slides Teacher Scripts Tracking Sheets Why it works (magazine)

Spelling

All thirty six sheets, Prepare through Cluster 8, one morphology rule a week, prefixes, suffixes, and Greek and Latin roots, in the plum spelling family.

Slides Teacher Scripts Tracking Sheets Why it works (magazine)

Writing

All thirty six sheets, Prepare through Cluster 8, the genre and process moves for the year, in the mauve writing family.

Slides Teacher Scripts Writing Sheets Why it works (magazine)

Evidence

All thirty six sheets, Prepare through Cluster 8, collecting and weighing text evidence with the TRACKS and CSI habits, in the orange evidence family.

Slides Teacher Scripts Tracking Sheets Why it works (magazine)

Explanation

All thirty six sheets, Prepare through Cluster 8, explaining evidence with the DEEP FACTS habits, adding Facts and Statistics, Comparison, and Cause and Effect.

Slides Teacher Scripts Tracking Sheets Why it works (magazine)

Paraphrasing

All thirty six weeks, Prepare through Cluster 8, paraphrasing a text so it keeps the meaning, the facts, and the logical order, TEKS (7)(D).

Slides Teacher Scripts Tracking Sheets Why it works (magazine)

TEKS Standards Slide Deck Triplets — Grade 5

Short daily slide sets, thirty six sheets across the year. Each set comes in three parts, the slides, the teacher scripts, and the student tracking sheets, all opening right in your browser.

Editing

All thirty six sheets, Prepare through Cluster 8, numbered Sheet 1 of 36 through 36 of 36.

Slides Teacher Scripts Tracking Sheets Why it works (magazine)

Editing Part Two

The Part Two editing standards for every cluster, Prepare through Cluster 8, each with its own slides, script, and tracking sheet.

Slides Teacher Scripts Tracking Sheets Why it works (magazine)

Revising

All thirty six sheets, Prepare through Cluster 8, numbered Sheet 1 of 36 through 36 of 36.

Slides Teacher Scripts Tracking Sheets Why it works (magazine)

Spelling

All thirty six sheets, Prepare through Cluster 8, one morphology rule a week, prefixes, suffixes, and Greek and Latin roots, in the plum spelling family.

Slides Teacher Scripts Tracking Sheets Why it works (magazine)

Writing

All thirty six sheets, Prepare through Cluster 8, the genre and process moves for the year, in the mauve writing family.

Slides Teacher Scripts Writing Sheets Why it works (magazine)

Evidence

All thirty six sheets, Prepare through Cluster 8, collecting and weighing text evidence with the TRACKS and CSI habits, in the orange evidence family.

Slides Teacher Scripts Tracking Sheets Why it works (magazine)

Explanation

All thirty six sheets, Prepare through Cluster 8, explaining evidence with all nine DEEP FACTS habits, adding Process, Analogy, and Expert Testimony.

Slides Teacher Scripts Tracking Sheets Why it works (magazine)

Paraphrasing

All thirty six weeks, Prepare through Cluster 8, paraphrasing a text so it keeps the meaning, the facts, and the logical order, TEKS (7)(D).

Slides Teacher Scripts Tracking Sheets Why it works (magazine)

Spelling that grows from the reading. Every spelling word is drawn from the very passage the class is reading that week, so the spelling and the reading always agree. Two versions let a teacher choose the reading level that fits the student while teaching the very same rule the very same week.

Spelling Lists — Grade 3

Nine clusters, four modules each, with five words from the reading and five new words for the rule, plus a seen and unseen check at the end of every set.

For developing readers

From the Module 1 Reading

Every week draws its words from the shorter Module 1 passage, so the spelling stays close to the reading a student can comfortably hold.

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For established readers

Module by Module

Each week draws from that week's own reading, so the spelling grows in stamina from the short Module 1 passage to the fullest Module 4 passage.

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Spelling Lists — Grade 4

Nine clusters, four modules each, with five words from the reading and five new words for the rule, plus a seen and unseen check at the end of every set.

For developing readers

From the Module 1 Reading

Every week draws its words from the shorter Module 1 passage, so the spelling stays close to the reading a student can comfortably hold.

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For established readers

Module by Module

Each week draws from that week's own reading, so the spelling grows in stamina from the short Module 1 passage to the fullest Module 4 passage.

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Spelling Lists — Grade 5

Nine clusters, four modules each, with five words from the reading and five new words for the rule, plus a seen and unseen check at the end of every set.

For developing readers

From the Module 1 Reading

Every week draws its words from the shorter Module 1 passage, so the spelling stays close to the reading a student can comfortably hold.

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For established readers

Module by Module

Each week draws from that week's own reading, so the spelling grows in stamina from the short Module 1 passage to the fullest Module 4 passage.

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The Matrix Books

The Matrix books gather a whole craft into a single volume a teacher can hold. Each one takes a strand of the writing work, the genres, the evidence, the explanation, the athlete's training habits, and lays it out from first idea to finished page, so the thinking behind the daily lessons lives in one place. The Writing Matrix also comes with its teacher handout and its slide deck.

Matrix Series

The Writing Matrix

The writing genres, one clear matrix.

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Matrix Series

The Writing Matrix: Teacher Handout

The companion handout for teachers.

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Matrix Series

The Writing Matrix: Slide Deck

The slides that walk the matrix through.

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