Conflicts and Clashes Pacing Guide

A creative narrative writing lesson that guides students through structural comic book creation, character design, and panel-by-panel storytelling using visual templates.

A complete lesson bundle focusing on the mechanics and analysis of direct quotations. Students learn to seamlessly blend quotes, apply correct MLA citations, and write sophisticated analysis using a structured rubric.

A comprehensive 3rd-grade grammar unit covering essential noun, adjective, verb, and adverb suffixes. Through engaging matching, fill-in-the-blank, and sentence writing exercises, students learn to identify, decode, and use these word parts in worksheets and a workbook.

A comprehensive 3rd-grade grammar unit covering essential Greek and Latin roots: dict, duct, fect, fract, junct, struct, min, and spec. Through engaging matching, fill-in-the-blank, and sentence writing exercises, students learn to identify, decode, and use these word parts in worksheets and a workbook.

A comprehensive 3rd-grade grammar unit covering essential prefixes: un-, im-/in-/ir-, dis-, non-, re-, mis-, and pre-. Through an engaging 'Prefix Patrol' detective theme, students learn to identify, decode, and use these word parts in worksheets and cumulative review keys.

A comprehensive annotation toolkit based on Jason Reynolds' novel Look Both Ways. Students analyze character development, author's craft, thematic motifs, and make active reading connections as they explore the spaces between school and home.

An immersive introductory lesson on active text annotation, focusing on identifying literary devices, analyzing author's craft, and tracking characterization. Students learn to use a unified code of symbols to turn reading from a passive activity into an active dialogue with the text.

A structured phonics lesson focused on encoding sentences with digraphs, consonant blends (beginning and ending), and hard vs. soft C. Includes rule-based worksheets with spelling grids and self-monitoring checklists.

Trace the protagonist's development from a compliant citizen to an awakened rebel. Students map the critical turning points, alliances, and sacrifices that drive resistance against the regime, applying these insights to their book club novels.

Analyze how dystopian regimes maintain authority through propaganda, censorship, and manufactured fear. Students contrast real propaganda techniques with fictional manifestations in their novels to decode the author's underlying real-world critiques.

Explore how dystopian authors build oppressive societies using key tropes such as environmental collapse, intense surveillance, and the systematic erasure of history. Students analyze their book club novels to map these elements.

An immersive, high-energy introductory hook lesson for Charming as a Verb that engages rising 10th-grade summer school students through NYC hustle culture, the social psychology of 'charm', and an author interview on performance anxiety and self-belief.

A spelling lesson exploring the soft G sound /j/ triggered by letters E, I, and Y. Students will identify, sort, and write words using the soft G patterns GE, GI, and GY.

A comprehensive phonics lesson exploring the spelling rules for the /j/ sound: 'j' at the beginning, 'dge' after short vowels, and 'ge' after long vowels or consonants. Includes multi-sensory materials, explicit guides, visual slides, and leveled activities.

A lesson targeting STAAR-aligned word-meaning strategies, including dictionary skills, context clues types (contrast, definition, cause/effect), and analyzing foreign words in English. Includes cloze-style guided notes, a practice worksheet bundle, and a teacher answer key.

A scaffolded proofreading and editing lesson designed for high school special education students to master sentence-level punctuation, capitalization, subject-verb agreement, homophones, and mixed grammatical errors. Includes a structured student workbook and a comprehensive teacher guide with a progress tracker.

A rigorous high school grammar workshop focusing on debugging subject-verb agreement, mixed mechanical errors, and commonly confused words. Students take on the role of copyeditors to locate and correct 20 syntax errors with precision.