Mensaje Entre Amigos

A comprehensive 30-day, six-week bell ringer curriculum adapted for sixth grade and differentiated for English language learners, guiding students from compound coordination to complex and compound-complex sentence structures.

A creative cross-curricular holiday project where students disguise a paper turkey using household materials and craft an illustrated children's storybook recounting its escape.

A comprehensive, student-friendly 100-point rubric assessing effort, originality, artwork, storytelling, creativity, and language conventions for the Turkey Escape Project.

*4 Weeks. 4 Adventures. One Reading Mission.* A four-week reading fluency intervention unit designed for middle school students who need additional support with reading accuracy, pacing, phrasing, and expression. Through brief, explicit instruction, guided practice, partner reading, and engaging high-interest passages, students develop stronger reading fluency while building confidence and comprehension. Student progress is tracked throughout the unit to guide instruction and celebrate growth.

A differentiated reading unit exploring the historic 1920 election and the struggle for women's suffrage. Features three tiered reading passages spanning 7th, 5th, and 4th grade levels, alongside standards-aligned questions addressing main idea, inferencing, and theme, plus an educator answer key.

Complete teacher guide and answer key providing objective question solutions, textual evidence citations, constructive response rubrics, and discussion prompts across all three reading tiers.

A five-part constructed response sequence for struggling 7th-grade writers using the RACES strategy. Students analyze an engaging informational text on deep-sea bioluminescence and systematically master restating, answering, citing, explaining, and summarizing into an evidence-based paragraph.

A comprehensive vocabulary unit based on Paulo Coelho's novel The Alchemist, featuring differentiated assessments designed for middle school reading levels.

Accessible reading passage at a Grade 4 reading level (3 grades below) telling the story of Harry Burn, his mother's letter, and the historic 1920 election, with guided questions on main idea, inference, and theme.

A comprehensive middle school writing sequence guiding students through the Extended Constructed Response process, from prompt deconstruction and claim generation to evidence integration and multi-paragraph synthesis.

A cross-curricular literacy lesson teaching students to glean math and science vocabulary from context sentences using synonym, contrast, and causal clues.

Differentiated reading passage at a Grade 5 reading level (2 grades below) exploring how women won the right to vote in the historic 1920 election, featuring scaffolded comprehension questions on main idea, inferencing, and theme.