Students analyze the first paragraphs of award-winning feature articles to categorize different types of hooks (anecdote, question, shock) and evaluate which strategies work best for different topics.
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.
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.
A clean, print-ready 1-page Answer Key for Unit 9 Student Assessment. It provides explicit answers for all student handout sections, utilizing bold colors and clear typography to make grading simple and fast.
A structured reading intervention sequence at Douglas School combining targeted phonic lessons with the multisensory Nessy online literacy system.
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.
A comprehensive, professionally formatted 2-page Teacher Guide to support delivery of Lesson 78 (Summative Assessment). It includes teacher administration scripts, error diagnostics, remediation protocols, and an extensive individual student diagnostic recording sheet.
A structured high school reading intervention sequence focusing on silent consonants, orthographic markers, pluralization rules, and academic spelling structures.
A comprehensive Unit 9 review lesson for high school readers. This lesson synthesizes and reinforces the consonant doubling rule, drop-e rule, y-to-i shift, unaccented final -ar/-or, alternate /air/ and /ear/ vowel contrasts, and alternate long-a spellings.
A clean, structured, and age-appropriate 2-page print-ready student assessment sheet. It features testing sections for spelling-change rules, alternate-spelling recognition, sound-sorting, and oral sentence reading.
A phonics intervention unit for high school readers focusing on short oo patterns, sound contrasts, and spelling application.
A structured, age-appropriate reading intervention lesson designed for high school readers. This lesson explicitly teaches alternate spellings for the long /ā/ sound (such as ei, ey, eigh, aigh, ea), while spiraling and reinforcing common long-a spellings like ai and ay.
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.
