Championship Character

A five-day middle school ELA sequence focused on analyzing how authors construct suspense, pacing, and mood in classic short stories, culminating in student-authored suspense scenes and a forensic peer review.

An engaging grammar lesson introducing middle schoolers to coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions (the bridges) and interjections (the bursts). Students learn to construct advanced sentence structures and punchy narrative beats.

A 2-page teacher's facilitator guide containing full answer keys, model student responses, pacing tips, common student misconceptions, and questioning strategies.

An intensive phonics intervention sequence designed for older struggling readers and English learners. Provides age-appropriate, highly scaffolded decoding practice for long and short vowels across middle school and young adult levels.

An 8th-grade ELA assessment package for Chapter 6 of Jason Reynolds' novel Ghost, focusing on character motivation, internal conflict, and citing textual evidence. Includes standard and scaffolded versions of the quiz along with a teacher rubric guide.

A student-facing 2-page practice pack containing identification exercises, sentence-combining welding trials, correlative balance checks, and narrative-writing tasks with ample space for handwriting.

A 4-day instructional sequence on Active Reading, analyzing important details, conflict, and finding textual evidence.

A highly scaffolded lesson designed to help struggling readers distinguish between theme (the big life lesson) and main idea (what the story is about) using a detective-themed mystery analogy.

A highly visual and engaging 16:9 presentation deck introducing coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions as 'bridges' and interjections as 'bursts' for middle school students.

A five-day integrated ELA, Social Studies, and Science unit for middle school multilingual learners exploring Adrienne Rich's 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers' and systemic racial disparities in the criminal justice system to contrast personal restriction with structural barriers.

An autumn-themed vocabulary unit focusing on morphological spelling patterns (prefixes, suffixes, and Latin/Greek roots) connected to seasonal changes. Students explore six powerful words through study cards, match games, and classroom word wall displays.

A comprehensive teacher-facing answer key and rubric guide. It details exemplar answers, exact grading criteria for short-answer analysis and textual evidence, and helpful notes on common student misconceptions.