Family Roots

A progressive multi-week handwriting curriculum created for second-grade English language learners. The sequence builds from foundational letter formation and spacing rules, through high-frequency school and home vocabulary, to fluent sentence composition with proper punctuation.

A seasonal writing and speaking workshop for 6th grade English language learners on the day before Halloween, featuring inclusive storytelling pathways, multimodal drawing scaffolds, and structured peer conversation protocols.

A 122-word reading passage about Robin Hood emphasizing his legendary adventures alongside the ongoing debate of whether he was real or a myth. It features proper nouns and multiple regular verbs in past, present, and future tenses.

A 3-day collaborative audio mystery unit where a pair of 7th-grade ELL students act as investigative podcasters. Students develop speaking and listening mastery through witness interviews, suspenseful scriptwriting, sound effects, and a recorded audio broadcast.

A bilingual literature and language lesson analyzing how James' profound misery and isolation under his cruel aunts motivate him to trust an eccentric stranger with magic crystals in Chapter 4 of Roald Dahl's *James and the Giant Peach*. Tailored for entering and emerging multilingual learners with dual-language passages, visual anchors, and structured sentence frames.

A colorful 2-page teacher model exemplar demonstrating a complete student response for the Autumn Voices Activity. Features an illustrated harvest scene with detailed characters showing expressive faces and hairstyles, blank student header lines, color-coded grammar and sensory vocabulary highlights, a mentor paragraph, and a scripted partner dialogue.

A two-part ESL unit for third and fourth grade multilingual learners focusing on foundational phonics with -ck endings and communicative modal language structures with can and can't.

A comprehensive, language-accessible exploration of Natalie Babbitt's *Tuck Everlasting* designed for 6th-grade ELL students. The lesson equips learners with visual story maps, tiered vocabulary, sentence frames, and scaffolded comprehension checks.

A comprehensive 2-page writing, speaking, and drawing activity for 6th grade English language learners on the day before Halloween. It features two inclusive writing pathways (Spooky Halloween Mystery vs. Autumn Harvest Festival), multimodal drawing space with descriptive labels, WIDA-aligned sentence frames and sensory word banks, and a structured partner speaking and listening protocol.

A two-day early literacy sequence for kindergarten and first grade ESL newcomers focusing on letter identification, phonemic awareness, and formation for letters H through M.

A comprehensive 8-week English Language Development bundle centered on community engagement and civic voice, featuring tiered scaffolds across Entering, Expanding, and Transitioning proficiency levels. Includes two sessions per week with explicit four-domain language targets, differentiated student worksheets, and teacher assessment frameworks.

A streamlined 6th grade narrative journal writing prompt featuring a single, open-ended prompt with no pre-set clues, accompanied by sentence scaffolds and a student self-check list.