Curriculum Kickoff

A 5-day ELAR unit for 7th grade students centered on Rudyard Kipling's classic 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi'. Students will analyze plot elements (foreshadowing/suspense), character influences, author's purpose, and complete STAAR-aligned short constructed responses and revising/editing practices.

An interactive, sensory-rich descriptive writing lesson where upper elementary students transform boring 'telling' sentences into vivid 'showing' masterpieces using hands-on imagery stations.

A printable set of 4 large imagery station cards containing step-by-step instructions, physical exploration guidelines, sensory word banks, and vocabulary boosters. Designed to be printed, cut, and placed at the physical classroom stations.

An intensive phonemic awareness intervention sequence focused on onset-rime substitution and deletion. Students act as 'sound mechanics' dismantling, swapping, and reassembling single-syllable words across three progressive phonetic levels.

A comprehensive lesson exploring concrete and abstract nouns, action, linking, and helping verbs, and the rules of subject-verb agreement. Includes an interactive slide deck, a detailed lesson plan, and a print-ready student worksheet.

A 2-page printable student journal used by students to record sensory observations and draft descriptive sentences at 4 physical imagery stations. Includes warm-up activities and peer reflection.

A five-day middle school ELA sequence focused on analyzing how authors construct suspense, pacing, and mood in classic short stories, culminating in student-authored suspense scenes and a forensic peer review.

An engaging grammar lesson introducing middle schoolers to coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions (the bridges) and interjections (the bursts). Students learn to construct advanced sentence structures and punchy narrative beats.

An interactive slide deck used by teachers to guide students through the Sensory Showdown lesson. It includes a hook activity contrasting telling vs. showing, a breakdown of the 5 senses, the descriptive writing formula, and station guidelines.

A high-interest writing unit that teaches students the TEXT opinion writing strategy through structured debates on topics like school recess and wild animal captivity.

A phonics-focused lesson for 1st graders featuring three decodable passages targeting short vowels and CKLA early-to-mid unit tricky words, complete with text-based comprehension questions.

A comprehensive, step-by-step teacher guide and lesson plan for executing the Sensory Showdown descriptive writing lesson. Includes materials checklist, physical station setup instructions, standards alignment, a clear pacing guide, and a rubrics checklist.