A lesson designed to help students identify 'Right There' questions in text and use specific marking strategies (starring, underlining, and highlighting) to locate evidence directly within the passage.

A high-flying exploration of kites that integrates long 'i' phonics patterns and multisyllabic decoding strategies for upper elementary and middle school students.

A comprehensive review of the RACE writing strategy, focusing on analyzing author's purpose and figurative language through guided instruction and highly-scaffolded practice.

An investigation into the Boston Tea Party, focusing on identifying main ideas and evidence within primary and secondary accounts of the 1773 protest.

This lesson explores the historical layers of the English language, focusing on how invasions by the Celts, Vikings, and French shaped the vocabulary and grammar we use today. Students will trace the timeline from Old English to the Norman Conquest.

A comprehensive vocabulary building course designed to master fifteen sophisticated words through weekly deep-dives, context analysis, and creative application.

A lesson focused on identifying claims and supporting evidence within short persuasive paragraphs using a detective-themed approach. Students learn to distinguish between what an author wants them to believe (claim) and why they should believe it (evidence).

A complete lesson covering similes, metaphors, idioms, personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, alliteration, oxymoron, and symbolism through direct instruction and guided practice.

A lesson focused on building semantic networks by exploring Latin roots in technology and Greek roots in science, helping students decode modern terminology.

A vocabulary lesson focusing on eight high-level words aligned with the school's core values: Challenge, Honor, Adapt, Understand, and Grow. Students engage with definitions, synonyms, and context clues.

A lesson on indirect characterization in Chapter 1 of Elie Wiesel's Night, focusing on the STEAL method (Speech, Thoughts, Effect, Actions, Looks) for Moishe the Beadle, Eliezer, and his father.

A set of literacy stations designed to build comprehension, argumentative analysis, and theme identification skills through six diverse reading passages.

A targeted revising and editing lesson focused on sentence combining techniques, themed around the short story 'The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant'. Students practice merging short, choppy sentences into sophisticated prose.

Students act as literary curators in this art-themed lesson. They use the F.A.C.T.S. method to gather 'brushstrokes' of evidence, synthesizing them into a sophisticated portrait of a character's overarching trait for an essay thesis.

A comprehensive ELA review game designed to help students master MCAS standards through a competitive and engaging bingo format. The lesson covers vocabulary, literary elements, text structures, and grammar.

A lesson covering the first few weeks of Auggie's school experience in 'Wonder', focusing on his interactions with Jack, Summer, and Julian, concluding with the betrayal on Halloween.

A comprehensive ELA lesson focused on NCSCOS RI.8.8, where students act as 'Argument Architects' to deconstruct and evaluate the structural integrity of persuasive texts through claims, reasoning, and evidence.

A comprehensive ELA lesson focused on NCSCOS RI.6.8, where students act as 'Claim Detectives' to trace and evaluate arguments and evidence in informational texts. Includes a slide deck for instruction, a rigorous practice passage with EOG-style questions, and a detailed teacher guide.

An 8th grade ELA lesson focused on analyzing text structure and point of view to determine how they contribute to meaning, style, suspense, and humor, aligned with NC EOG standards RL.8.5 and RL.8.6.