Drama and Disruption

Students analyze how the em dash creates sudden breaks, emphasizes content, or signals a shift in tone by comparing it to more neutral marks like commas.

Lesson #1

inPunctuation Voice Mechanics

Drama and Disruption

Students analyze how the em dash creates sudden breaks, emphasizes content, or signals a shift in tone by comparing it to more neutral marks like commas.

Lesson #1

inPunctuation Voice Mechanics

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

Double Take

An engaging grammar and nonverbal communication lesson where high school students explore parts of speech, facial expressions, and body language through creative storytelling and mad libs.

Victoria Bunzick

Double Take Mad Libs

A comprehensive, 10-page Mad Libs packet featuring five high-interest scenarios. Each scenario is a 2-page set including a dedicated Word Prep planning page with 12 vocabulary slots, and a full-page, 500-word narrative with wide handwriting blanks for vocational comedies and high school drama.

Victoria Bunzick

Douglas Literacy Pathway

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

npowers

Novel Promo Blueprint

A scaffolded unit designed to help 5th-grade developing and emerging students create a mock e-commerce book listing for a novel they have read. This lesson breaks down complex writing tasks like summaries, quotes, and editorial reviews into structured, bite-sized templates with built-in sentence frames.

Catherine Onessimo

Double Take Word Bank

A comprehensive word bank featuring curated, high-interest nouns, verbs, adjectives, emotions, body language, and facial expressions with descriptive icons for high school level writing.

Victoria Bunzick

Linguistic Signals

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

Alexis Paolini

Unit 9 Overview

An overall curriculum overview and teacher preparation guide for Unit 9 (Lessons 71–78). This resource maps out the core skills, spiral pathways, cumulative benchmarks, and pacing guides for spelling-change rules and alternate vowel patterns.

Alexis Paolini

Double Take Guide

A professional and sleek anchor chart defining parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives) and nonverbal communication elements (emotions, body language, facial expressions) with high-school appropriate definitions and examples.

Victoria Bunzick

Vowel Team Shifts

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

Alexis Paolini

Unit 9 Assessment

A comprehensive Unit 9 spelling and decoding diagnostic assessment for high school readers. It includes student test sections for spelling-change rules, alternate-spelling recognition, sound-sorting, and sentence reading.

Alexis Paolini

Phonics Breakout Series

A comprehensive 5-day phonics breakout sequence where students complete daily independent spelling missions to crack codes. Covering CVC, Silent E, Digraphs/Blends, R-controlled vowels, and Vowel Teams, each day represents a new adventure challenge.

Drama and Disruption