Quantity Quest

A 3-day collaborative audio mystery unit where a pair of 7th-grade ELL students act as investigative podcasters. Students develop speaking and listening mastery through witness interviews, suspenseful scriptwriting, sound effects, and a recorded audio broadcast.

An applied pragmatics seminar for advanced adult foreign language learners examining speech act realization, cross-cultural politeness theories, and formal remediation across linguistic contexts.

A comprehensive ESL pullout student monitoring sheet and data tracker aligned with WIDA ELD standards and language domains. Features dedicated WIDA score slots, in-the-moment progress evidence, effective scaffolds, and next steps with generous physical writing space.

A 5-week foundational phonics and early literacy unit (2 lessons weekly, 10 lessons total) for secondary newcomer English learners (ELPA21 Level 1-2), centered on desert wildlife and systematically building from CVC decoding and blends to silent e, r-controlled vowels, vowel teams, diphthongs, and inflected endings.

Day 3 culminates in a live audio broadcast showcase where the student pair records and performs their finished mystery story. Students utilize active listening scorecards, give constructive partner praise, and complete a speaking self-reflection.

A non-evaluative classroom observation and collaborative feedback protocol designed for ELD specialists visiting content classrooms. It features low-inference student evidence logging, asset-based guiding domains, and a strengths-focused debrief structure to co-plan multilingual learner scaffolds.

A four-lesson sequence guiding intermediate-low French-speaking English learners through ability, obligation, advice, and mixed modal usage with targeted contrastive practice.

Day 2 centers on collaborative storytelling and audio soundscapes as students turn their interview findings into a 2-person suspense radio script. Students co-write dialogue, assign foley sound effects, and rehearse voice dynamics.

An English Learners practice worksheet focusing on the be-verbs 'is' and 'are'. Students use visual cues, anchor rules, sentence frames, and scaffolded exercises to master singular and plural subject-verb agreement.

A 5-week foundational writing intervention for secondary emerging English learners focused on school and community themes, featuring syllable and affix encoding, 2 sentence dictations per lesson, sentence parts and building, and culminating in two-sentence question responses with reasoning.

Day 1 focuses on investigative partner interviews where students alternate roles as Detective and Key Witness. Students practice asking follow-up questions, taking oral notes, and using evidence-based sentence stems to solve the Mystery of the Whispering Clock.

An advanced applied pragmatics workshop sheet featuring authentic speech act coding exercises, contrastive discourse defect diagnostics, cross-cultural remediation drafting tasks, and a peer audit rubric.