Crayon Strike Teacher Guide
A comprehensive teacher guide for a 45-minute 10th-grade TELPAS lesson focusing on persuasive writing and sensory language using "The Day the Crayons Quit."
Crayon Strike Slides
A set of instructional slides for the Crayon Strike lesson, featuring visual hooks, vocabulary checks, mentor text excerpts, and task instructions for 10th-grade ELLs.
Color Palette Reference
An expanded bilingual English-Spanish reference sheet featuring a much larger selection of sensory color names, textures, feelings, and academic persuasive vocabulary.
Crayon Plea Worksheet
A student worksheet for drafting a persuasive letter from Duncan to a crayon, featuring sentence stems, handwriting lines, and a completion checklist for TELPAS writing.
Scaffolded Plea Worksheet
A scaffolded version of the persuasion worksheet, breaking the letter into four specific sections with targeted sentence stems for each part of the persuasive argument.
