Resource Pack 3.1: Life Cycles of Plants and Animals
Explore the fascinating life cycles of plants, insects, amphibians, and other living things while building fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension through a variety of engaging texts.
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Bricks & Mortar Resource Pack Bundle
Bring literacy instruction and content learning together with the first three Bricks & Mortar Resource Packs — the ready-to-use materials built to bring the Bricks & Mortar framework to life in your small groups.
Designed for students in grades 3–5+, these ready-to-use text sets provide engaging science content paired with practical teacher supports for Word Work, Sentence Work, and Passage Work. Each pack is built around a high-interest content topic and includes informational passages, poetry, readers' theater scripts, vocabulary resources, sentence analysis supports, and short writing prompts.
Bundle of 3 Packs — $29.99 + sales tax
Built On The Framework
Every Resource Pack Connects Directly to the Bricks & Mortar Framework Taught in Our Online Class
The online class teaches the "why" and "how" behind three connected layers of instruction. Each Resource Pack gives you the ready-to-use "what" for all three — so the framework and the materials work as one system.
Laying the Bricks
Word Work
Delivered through each pack's Word Work supports, glossary, and syllabication practice.
Binding with Mortar
Sentence Work
Delivered through sentence structure supports built into every passage set.
Raising the Walls
Passage Work
Delivered through fluency passages, poems, readers' theater, and writing prompts.
Included In This Bundle
Three Content-Rich Resource Packs
Whether used for intervention, small-group instruction, classroom support, or content-area literacy, these resources help students strengthen foundational literacy skills while building valuable background knowledge.
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Resource Pack 4.1: Earth's Changing Surface
Investigate the forces that shape our planet, including erosion, glaciers, fossils, earthquakes, and tectonic plates. Students discover how scientists use evidence and patterns to understand changes that occur over time.
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Resource Pack 5.1: Energy in Ecosystems
Follow the flow of energy through food chains and food webs while exploring producers, consumers, decomposers, and the interconnected relationships that support life on Earth.
Each Resource Pack Includes
4 informational fluency passages
2 poems for fluency and expression
2 readers' theater scripts
Student glossary
Word Work supports
Sentence Structure supports
Short and Strong Writing Prompts
Teacher guidance for flexible implementation
The Bricks & Mortar Resource Packs are designed to work alongside the Bricks & Mortar framework, but they can also be used independently as high-quality literacy and science resources. Together, these three text sets provide dozens of opportunities for students to practice reading, discussing, writing, and learning through rich content that builds both knowledge and literacy.
Get all three packs in the Bricks & Mortar Resource Pack Bundle — $29.99 (plus applicable sales tax).
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Make The Most Of Your Resource Packs
Learn the Bricks & Mortar Framework These Packs Are Built On
These resource packs were designed to bring the Bricks and Mortar framework to life. In the Bricks and Mortar online class, you'll learn a practical approach for helping students close literacy gaps through three interconnected layers of instruction: Word Work (the bricks), Sentence Work (the mortar), and Passage Work (raising the walls).
Rather than treating foundational skills, language, and text comprehension as separate priorities, the framework helps teachers connect them in meaningful and efficient ways. Each resource pack provides ready-to-use materials aligned to this approach, making it easy to put the framework into practice with engaging, content-rich texts and routines.
- Self-paced online class — start right away, revisit anytime
- On-demand video lessons and modeled instruction
- Reusable teacher and student tools for planning and practice
- The thinking behind the framework these Resource Packs put into action
Buying separately costs more — get all three packs in the bundle above and save 23%.
Purchase Individually
Not Ready for the Bundle?
Any of the resource packs can be purchased individually. Choose the topic that's right for your students.
Resource Pack 3.1
Life Cycles
Helps students in grades 3–5+ build knowledge while strengthening reading, vocabulary, sentence comprehension, and fluency skills. Designed to accompany the Bricks and Mortar framework.
$12.99
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Resource Pack 4.1
Earth's Changing Surface
Helps students build knowledge and strengthen reading, vocabulary, sentence comprehension, and fluency. Designed to accompany the Bricks and Mortar framework.
$12.99
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Resource Pack 5.1
Energy in Ecosystems
Helps students build knowledge and strengthen reading, vocabulary, sentence comprehension, and fluency. Designed to accompany the Bricks and Mortar framework.
$12.99
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