Students learn to break grammatical rules intentionally by using fragments to isolate powerful images or accelerate the rhythm of their writing.
A structured reading intervention sequence at Douglas School combining targeted phonic lessons with the multisensory Nessy online literacy system.
Summer literacy communication and family engagement resources to help rising kindergarteners maintain and build reading skills over the summer break through play-based activities.
A cheerful, sunny summer reading introductory letter for rising kindergarteners and their parents at Douglas School. It details how to use their "Summer Reading Activity Bag" containing alphabet flashcards, sight word popcorn matches, and syllable hopping games, complete with a printable 20-day summer tracking chart.
A structured high school reading intervention sequence focusing on silent consonants, orthographic markers, pluralization rules, and academic spelling structures.
Materials and communication documents for launching and onboarding families to the Nessy Literacy Program at Douglas School.
A formal parent/guardian introductory letter from Douglas School detailing the Nessy Program literacy intervention. It highlights the program's history, multisensory learning approach, and weekly curriculum format.
A phonics intervention unit for high school readers focusing on short oo patterns, sound contrasts, and spelling application.
A structured reading intervention lesson focusing on the prefix un- ("not" or "opposite") and its meaning, paired with a comprehensive spiral review of suffixes (-ful, -less, -ly) and silent consonants.
A clean, 1-page printable teacher answer key featuring complete solutions, annotations, and visual markup guides for Lesson 66.
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.
A lesson focusing on the silent-e syllable type (CVCe and two-syllable words) using a playful Reader's Theater sequel. Students build phonics fluency, decode key silent-e words, and collaborate on reading aloud.
A comprehensive 2-page instructional guide for teachers delivering Lesson 66, featuring timed outline, explicit phonetic script, prefix rules, and targeted adolescent scaffolding notes.
