Chris Spackman: Educator Resources news

New: the Unit Circle Explorer.

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000

New: the Unit Circle Explorer. Drag a point around the circle to see the special angles and their exact values, reference angles, how the sine and cosine waves are drawn, and what a radian is, with practice questions. In English or Spanish.

Lesson Plan Builder 0.13.1

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Lesson Plan Builder up to version 0.13.1: added a box for dictation sentences; tweaked some spreadsheet formatting; and set new “% nonsense” word defaults (because older students have memorized so many words).

New section: Read-Along Stories.

Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000

New section: Read-Along Stories. A story page with a recording, where each word lights up as it is read; click any word to hear it from there, slow the reading down, make the text bigger. First story: Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death, read by Peter Lamb (public domain).

Lesson Plan Builder 0.11.0 and 0.12.0

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Lesson Plan Builder 0.11.0: a “% nonsense” box on the blending drill and the reading and spelling lists (made-up words from the same sounds, in italics on the page and the handout); a switch for the silent-l -alk / -olk words (walk, talk, chalk, folk, yolk), kept apart from the -lk blend; and the Syllabication section holds back syllable types that aren’t taught yet (no -le or magic-e words at stage 5). Then 0.12.0: the student handout carries the whole lesson (reading sentences and a reading paragraph you type on the plan, or ruled space if you don’t; dictation last), its words at 20 pt, and the spreadsheet’s word lists are larger and laid out in the handout’s columns and order.

The NeoCities browser tools have moved here

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The browser tools from my NeoCities site moved here as Classroom & Reading Tools: phonics and reading practice, lesson planning, word games, readability checking, classroom display, and more.