Jitter Bugs Vocab

A scaffolded communicative sequence designed to transition multilingual learners from basic classroom survival language to expressing academic opinions. It provides highly visual resources, structured templates, and peer-to-peer discussion supports across Entering, Emerging, Transitioning, and Expanding proficiency levels.

Designed for Transitioning & Expanding ENL students, this lesson guides students to express and defend academic opinions, using graphic organizers, paragraph-level templates, academic transitions, and structured peer-to-peer partner talk.

A printable set of 4 structured academic conversation cards for Transitioning and Expanding ENL students, providing sentence frames for stating claims, agreeing, disagreeing, and asking clarifying questions.

A reading comprehension unit centered on the historic 1960 deep-sea expedition of the bathyscaphe Trieste. This sequence offers dual-path lessons tailored for fourth-grade (4.0) independent readers and first-grade (1.0) interactive read-aloud learners.

Designed for Entering & Emerging ENL students, this lesson teaches essential classroom survival language (asking for help, requesting items, sharing feelings) using rich visuals, simple visual word banks, and structured sentence frames.

A structured paragraph builder graphic organizer that guides Transitioning and Expanding ENL students to draft an academic opinion paragraph using the Paragraph Hamburger framework.

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 whimsical library lesson based on the picture book 'Dear Broccoli'. Students explore story elements, gardening vocabulary, and the art of letter-writing through interactive slides, a creative worksheet, and a detailed teacher facilitation guide.

A structured 5-slide presentation designed for Transitioning and Expanding students to learn how to form claims, support opinions with evidence, and practice academic turn-taking.

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 reading comprehension lesson designed for Grade 1.0 readers. It features 'Pip's Red Hat', a highly decodable, engaging forest-themed story, paired with visual comprehension questions, vocabulary matching, and a scaffolded writing response with a word bank.

A student-facing scaffolded practice worksheet for Entering and Emerging ENL students, featuring picture matching, fill-in-the-blank requests, and trace-and-write support for sharing feelings.