Resources for mastering comparative writing, including rubrics and organizers for subject analysis.

A collection of tools to help students and teachers evaluate narrative writing through clear criteria and student-friendly goals.

A deep dive into the complex web of relationships and motivations in Arthur Miller's 'The Crucible'. Students will trace connections between characters to understand how personal grudges fueled the Salem Witch Trials.

A lesson focused on helping 3rd grade ESL students master the use of 'to be' verbs in present (is, are) and past (was, were) tenses using relatable nouns and pronouns.

A focused study of The Crucible Acts 1 and 4, using simplified scripts to explore character motivation, the spread of hysteria, and the ultimate choice between life and integrity.

A collection of three non-fiction reading fluency passages and a tracking guide designed for 7th-grade students reading at a 5th-grade level, focusing on meaningful phrasing and expression.

A comprehensive guide to high-level revision and editing, focusing on sentence effectiveness, parallel structure, and eliminating fragments or run-ons. Students learn to refine their writing with the precision of a professional editor.

An introduction to the characters and escalating tensions in Act 1 of The Crucible, focusing on identifying individual motives and the power dynamics within Salem. Designed with scaffolding for bilingual learners.

A fluency-focused lesson designed to improve reading rate and pacing through repeated readings of a contemporary news article about urban environmentalism.

This lesson provides students with rigorous literary analysis practice modeled after the IAR assessment. Students will read a complex literary passage and respond to multi-part evidence-based questions and a prose constructed response.