A close-reading lesson exploring conflict and setting in Gary Paulsen's Woodsong. Students analyze how the brutal winter environment drives the plot and shapes the central conflict.
Students learn to formulate defensible academic claims, integrate scholarly evidence seamlessly into arguments, and reflect on their growth as scholarly contributors.
Students learn the principles of ethical information consumption, intellectual property rights, citation systems (APA, MLA), and how proper citation values scholarly creation.
Students learn to organize complex research findings from multiple scholarly perspectives using a synthesis matrix and formulate cohesive thematic summaries.
Students learn to analyze scholarly source authority, unpacking research methodology, peer review dynamics, and institutional credibility of research findings.
Students develop advanced database search strategies using boolean parameters, wildcard systems, truncations, and key field boundaries to narrow scholarly results.
Students explore the collaborative nature of research, recognizing scholarly databases and academic literature as an ongoing dialogue where authors build upon, challenge, and refine each other's ideas.
Administrative resources and vertical alignment guides for teachers and school leadership, including the full 24-lesson K-12 scope and standards crosswalk.
A superhero-themed writing workshop lesson that guides students through mastering the TEXT paragraph structure and upgrading it to a full four-paragraph essay. Features dynamic, comic-inspired anchor charts and pocket-sized desk checklists.
This lesson provides a highly structured scaffold to help co-taught ELA students build a comparison thesis statement and paragraph. It links the protagonist Amal from Amal Unbound with Edgar Guest's inspirational poem 'See It Through', focusing on the theme of resilience.
A high-interest figurative language lesson using real quotes from Chapters 31-40 of Byron Graves's novel Rez Ball, tailored for 7th-grade ELA resource room students. Includes a visual reference guide, matching task cards, a cut-and-paste sorting sheet, and a teacher key.
A comprehensive 7th-grade literary analysis and annotation unit based on Gary Soto's short story 'Seventh Grade'. Students track character development, plot, and themes while practicing active questioning and drawing text-based inferences.
A literature lesson focused on Gary Paulsen's Winterdance Chapter 1. Students analyze how setting drives conflict and explore personal connections to the themes of survival, fear, and shattered illusions.
A step-by-step lesson on summarizing stories using the Beginning, Middle, and End (BME) framework, specially scaffolded for emerging readers and students with IEP accommodations.
A rigorous, mock-EOG diagnostic exam featuring high-interest informational and literary passages paired with 25 standard-aligned practice questions.
An assessment and supporting materials for finishing The Westing Game, tailored for 3rd and 4th grade students who benefit from visual supports, word banks, and chunked layouts.
A analytical assessment lesson focusing on the high-stakes themes, racial and socioeconomic divides, and tragic character trajectories of Boobie Miles and Mike Winchell in H.G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights.
A collection of accommodated 2nd grade DIBELS MAZE comprehension practice worksheets with enlarged text and spacing to support student success.
A 3rd-grade grammar lesson where students become Word Detectives to identify adjectives in everyday sentences, map their relationships to nouns, and use descriptive words to crack creative writing cases.
A first-grade friendly adaptation of Chapter 6 of Katherine Applegate's 'Crenshaw', using simplified, highly accessible language and extensive emoji picture-support to aid reading comprehension, accompanied by a student-facing multiple-choice worksheet and a teacher answer key.
Focuses deeply on RI.8.8 (evaluating arguments, specific claims, and the relevance and sufficiency of evidence) through direct modeling, a high-rigor scientific passage, and targeted analytical practice.
Focuses on high-weight RL/RI.8.1 (textual evidence), RL/RI.8.2 (central idea and objective summary), and RL/RI.8.4/RL.8.6 (word choice, figurative language, and point of view/structure) through direct instruction, high-rigor modeling, and targeted practice.
An intensive literary intervention focusing on theme development, character analysis, and interpreting figurative language, combined with rigorous EOG-style questions.