Using contrast and opposites to determine the meaning of unfamiliar adjectives.
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.
Tech Talk Grammar is a structured, comprehensive grammar study guide series spanning 15 units of core English skills for professional and technical communication. This lesson encapsulates the entire reference suite split into highly organized, beautifully themed cheat sheets.
A beautiful, dense, and interactive 3-page grammar cheat sheet booklet for Tech Talk Grammar Units 1-15. It incorporates custom SVG diagrams, visual certainty scales, comparison tables, and highlighted key language rules with high-contrast color-coded boxes.
A structured reading intervention sequence at Douglas School combining targeted phonic lessons with the multisensory Nessy online literacy system.
A scaffolded unit designed to help 5th-grade developing and emerging students create a mock e-commerce book listing for a novel they have read. This lesson breaks down complex writing tasks like summaries, quotes, and editorial reviews into structured, bite-sized templates with built-in sentence frames.
A 1-page student-facing draft worksheet designed for Grade 5 developing writers. It provides generous writing space (2 dashed lines per section) and clear color-coded sentence starters for each part of the Somebody (Red), Wanted (Yellow), But (Blue), So (Orange), Then (Green) summary framework.
A structured high school reading intervention sequence focusing on silent consonants, orthographic markers, pluralization rules, and academic spelling structures.
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 set of three creative thank-you note templates including a traditional letter, an acrostic poem, and printable postcards for Teacher Appreciation Week.
A phonics intervention unit for high school readers focusing on short oo patterns, sound contrasts, and spelling application.
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 2-page instructional guide for teachers containing step-by-step facilitation plans, modeling guides for the sentence frames, a completed exemplar based on the novel Holes, and an asset-based 5th-grade writing rubric.
