Grammar Expedition

A comprehensive literary research unit designed to guide students through a structural and character analysis of classic and regional fairy tales. Students assume the role of folklore investigators, tracking standard tropes, character motivations, helper archetypes, and plot designs, culminating in an analytical presentation.

A comprehensive progress monitoring kit for English Language Learners (ELLs) across all four core language domains. Includes step-by-step teacher instructions, a printable class tracking matrix, a student self-monitoring journal, and quick formative assessment rubrics.

A highly scaffolded, visual, bilingual (English/Spanish) student self-monitoring journal page tailored for early language acquisition levels (L1-L2).

A spelling bridge program for rising fifth graders, reviewing essential third and fourth-grade spelling patterns. Focuses on inflected endings, syllable junctures, silent letters, and complex vowels through structured worksheets and hands-on sorting cards.

A creative lesson focused on providing elementary students with scaffolding tools, sentence starters, and structured frameworks for persuasive and expository writing.

Quick formative assessment prompts and rubrics across listening, speaking, reading, and writing domains to facilitate easy, real-time feedback.

A five-lesson literary analysis and SAT prep sequence based on Rob Buyea's 'Because of Mr. Terupt'. Students practice textual evidence analysis and vocabulary-in-context skills through character-driven writing prompts.

A background lesson to help students understand attention-seeking behaviors and personality styles, specifically Histrionic Personality Disorder, to better analyze characters in The Westing Game.

A student-facing language learning self-assessment and goal-setting journal page to build student ownership and confidence.

An 8-week reading comprehension curriculum designed for entering fifth graders, featuring high-interest adventure themes like wilderness survival, deep-sea exploration, cyber defense, and volcanology. It focuses on critical reading comprehension skills like inferences, cause and effect, summarizing, and context clues with high-contrast, large print student packets.

A 60-minute tutoring lesson for incoming 5th graders, focusing on building summarizing and comprehension skills using paired nonfiction (Mars rovers) and fiction (space exploration sci-fi) passages, complete with a vocabulary warm-up, graphic organizers, and tutor guides.

A printable class-wide progress monitoring matrix to track ELL students' development across all four language domains over three assessment intervals.