Autumn Voices Studio

A 5-day foundational phonics and early literacy unit for ELPA21 Level 1-2 English learners, featuring 45-minute daily lessons centered on desert wildlife that systematically build word identification, CVC decoding, Elkonin box encoding, and decodable reading.

An introductory ESL family vocabulary lesson that builds English foundational terms for Spanish speakers. Students practice recognizing relatives through visual cues, Spanish translations, and bilingual speaking prompts.

A 122-word reading passage about Robin Hood emphasizing his legendary adventures alongside the ongoing debate of whether he was real or a myth. It features proper nouns and multiple regular verbs in past, present, and future tenses.

A 5-day foundational phonics and early literacy unit for ELPA21 Level 1-2 English learners, featuring 45-minute daily lessons centered on desert wildlife that systematically build word identification, CVC decoding, Elkonin box encoding, and decodable reading.

A bilingual literature and language lesson analyzing how James' profound misery and isolation under his cruel aunts motivate him to trust an eccentric stranger with magic crystals in Chapter 4 of Roald Dahl's *James and the Giant Peach*. Tailored for entering and emerging multilingual learners with dual-language passages, visual anchors, and structured sentence frames.

A colorful 2-page teacher model exemplar demonstrating a complete student response for the Autumn Voices Activity. Features an illustrated harvest scene with detailed characters showing expressive faces and hairstyles, blank student header lines, color-coded grammar and sensory vocabulary highlights, a mentor paragraph, and a scripted partner dialogue.

A high-interest, low-readability graphic fiction sequence designed for 6th grade ENL learners. Students build reading comprehension through visual storytelling, exploring character, setting, compound nouns, action verbs, and verb tenses.

A comprehensive, language-accessible exploration of Natalie Babbitt's *Tuck Everlasting* designed for 6th-grade ELL students. The lesson equips learners with visual story maps, tiered vocabulary, sentence frames, and scaffolded comprehension checks.

A comprehensive 2-page writing, speaking, and drawing activity for 6th grade English language learners on the day before Halloween. It features two inclusive writing pathways (Spooky Halloween Mystery vs. Autumn Harvest Festival), multimodal drawing space with descriptive labels, WIDA-aligned sentence frames and sensory word banks, and a structured partner speaking and listening protocol.

A differentiated ESL curriculum for middle school students exploring independent and dependent clauses, sentence construction, and complex syntax across beginner and advanced proficiency tiers.

A comprehensive 8-week English Language Development bundle centered on community engagement and civic voice, featuring tiered scaffolds across Entering, Expanding, and Transitioning proficiency levels. Includes two sessions per week with explicit four-domain language targets, differentiated student worksheets, and teacher assessment frameworks.