The core launch materials for the Adult Literacy Lab, providing instructors with the structural handbook, tracking rubrics, and high-contrast letter/word cards and writing strips required to deliver daily targeted literacy practice.
A comprehensive diagnostic kit for letter recognition (uppercase and lowercase) and letter sounds. Includes randomized student stimulus pages, teacher recording grids in developmental order, and individual/class progress trackers.
A comprehensive third-grade English grammar lesson introducing adverbs of manner, time, and place (How, When, and Where), with a focus on -ly words. Includes an instructional slide presentation, a student practice worksheet packet, and a teacher answer key.
A literature lesson examining how different characters experience and narrate the exact same central event. Students analyze three contrasting accounts of a mysterious clocktower ringing to explore the impact of perspective on narrative truth, tone, and character motivation.
A rigorous, standards-aligned lesson focused on teaching students how ideas, events, and concepts interact in complex informational texts using four major organizational structures.
A comprehensive end-of-unit poetry analysis assessment consisting of text-dependent questions, a short-answer section on a fresh poem, and an analytical writing prompt with a standardized grading rubric.
Students explore how historical era, biography, and cultural context shape a poem's themes and resonance. Includes instructional slides and an analytical guided notes organizer examining diverse voices in poetry.
Students analyze how word choice (diction) establishes atmosphere (mood) and speaker attitude (tone), tracking the pivotal shifts where meaning transforms. Includes slides and a tracker-style close reading worksheet.
Students examine how line breaks, stanzas, rhyme schemes, and meter control pacing and highlight critical concepts. Includes instructional slides and a guided practice analyzing classic sonnet and free verse forms.
Students explore how poets use metaphors, similes, and rich sensory imagery to craft layers of meaning beyond the literal words. Includes instructional slides and a close reading guided worksheet analyzing Emily Dickinson's poetry.
Focuses on the entire novel. Culminates in a thematic synthesis, drafting, revising, and presenting evidence-based literary analysis essays centered on the novel's core values: kindness, friendship, and identity.
Focuses on Part 8 (August). Analyzes the resolution of primary conflicts, structural shifts, and the return to August's perspective. Students study character transformation, narrative closure, and prep for thematic synthesis.
Focuses on Parts 6 & 7 (August's medical updates & Miranda). Examines motivations of secondary characters, the impact of secret keeping, and the concept of subjective reality versus absolute truth as friendships drift and realign.
Focuses on Parts 4 & 5 (Jack & Justin). Explores typography as voice, socio-economic factors in peer pressure, and the courage required to stand up to social norms. Students compare Jack's cognitive dissonance with Justin's experimental stream-of-consciousness writing.
Focuses on Parts 2 & 3 (Via & Summer). Introduces the concept of shifting narration and contrasting viewpoints. Students examine how familial obligations, grief, and genuine friendship shape how other characters see August and how they see themselves.
Focuses on Part 1 (August). Introduces the concept of first-person narration, character voice, and narrative reliability. Students analyze how August establishes his identity and how his perspective guides our initial understanding of Beecher Prep.
An explicit, highly scaffolded writing lesson focused on subject-predicate identification, fragment correction, and color-coded visual sentence expansion. Designed with age-respectful visual aids and structured executive functioning checklists for older students in substantially separate settings.
A structured resource pack focusing on Main Idea and Key Details. Students become 'Lens Detectives', analyzing highly detailed visual scenes (styled as polaroid photos) to gather clues, identify the central topic, and draft structured paragraphs using deductive writing scaffolds.
Students structure powerful opinions using a 3-paragraph template. They leverage strong emotional hooks, evidence-based reason body blocks, and persuasive call-to-action conclusions.
Students learn to contrast and compare two topics using a structured 3-paragraph format. A dual-column layout, custom Venn diagrams, and comparison word banks guide them through similarities and differences.
Students master the highly structured 3-paragraph informational essay. They use visual icons, word banks, and fill-in-the-blank sentence starters to build a rock-solid introduction, body, and conclusion paragraph.
A comprehensive, 10-month progress-monitoring curriculum designed for rapid decoding trials. This lesson contains a student tracking binder, weekly assessment cards, and a complete curriculum booklet focusing on single-syllable phonics patterns.
A comprehensive game design lesson focusing on creative writing and narrative architecture. Students learn how to build worlds, draft compelling character arcs, and design branching choice pathways through a series of structured worksheets, guided slides, and educator resources.
A comprehensive and engaging unit/lesson introducing 3rd graders to adjectives. Students act as 'Descriptive Detectives' to identify, compare, and categorize adjectives through a structured work packet and structured visual guide.
A high-energy, speech-conditioning lesson designed to eradicate vocalized pauses ('um', 'uh', 'like') through physical pacing drills and unscripted impromptu speaking challenges.
A complete third-grade ELA lesson designed to help students master answering literal comprehension questions in complete sentences. Features the 'Question-to-Statement Formula' to systematically teach students how to cross out question words, recycle the prompt, and formulate high-quality responses.