Ancestral Echoes

A TELPAS-aligned writing and speaking workshop focused on the cultural significance, history, and resilience of Día de Muertos. Students analyze complex text to produce academic writing pieces that they will later record as oral presentations.

GJGerardo Jimenez Ramirez

Ancestral Echoes

GJGerardo Jimenez Ramirez

Suffix Spelling Rules

A reading intervention unit targeting the critical spelling changes that occur at suffix boundaries, designed for older struggling readers. The sequence covers final consonant doubling and silent-e dropping logic.

Alexis Paolini

Diamond Writers

A year-end writing celebration and awards ceremony designed to recognize growth, effort, and accomplishments in writing.

Julie Pietrasiak

Diamond Celebration Slides

A completely redesigned, bespoke slide deck with a 'Digging for Diamonds' theme in a highly engaging Retro-Playful Flat-Pop style. Features thick black outlines, solid flat shadows, authentic lined paper journal pages, vibrant custom vector stickers, and the Chelsea Market title font. Built to look artisanal, warm, and classroom-native rather than AI-generated.

Julie Pietrasiak

Douglas Literacy Pathway

A structured reading intervention sequence at Douglas School combining targeted phonic lessons with the multisensory Nessy online literacy system.

npowers

Diamond Writers Finale

A celebratory end-of-year lesson designed to honor student writing growth, showcase final projects, award special honors, and guide students through meaningful reflections on their journey as writers.

Julie Pietrasiak

Diamond Reflection Sheets

A printable year-end activity sheet featuring four large, beautiful cutout diamonds with ample writing space for students to share wisdom and advice with next year's incoming writers.

Julie Pietrasiak

Linguistic Signals

A structured high school reading intervention sequence focusing on silent consonants, orthographic markers, pluralization rules, and academic spelling structures.

Alexis Paolini

Word Hackers

An intensive, highly engaging summer school lesson for driven ESL sophomores and juniors, focusing on decoding and constructing English vocabulary using the 20 most common roots, prefixes, and suffixes through a high-energy code-breaking theme.

Miguel Liendo Navarro

Diamond Finale Slides

A highly visual, vibrant presentation for the year-end writing celebration, designed to excite students, present awards, and guide reflections with geometric diamond motifs.

Julie Pietrasiak

Vowel Team Shifts

A phonics intervention unit for high school readers focusing on short oo patterns, sound contrasts, and spelling application.

Alexis Paolini

Puck Play Phonemes

A hockey-themed one-on-one phonemic awareness intervention lesson focusing on blending, segmenting, and phoneme manipulation. Includes interactive sound-mapping mats, structured task cards, and an educator guide for seamless delivery.

Lenny

Word Hackers Student Workbook

A printable, structured 3-page student workbook containing a Morpheme Cheat Sheet, science-fiction reading passage, dissection matrices, and the escape room terminal challenges.

Ancestral Echoes