Students move from identification to creation by writing original sentences that include descriptive intervening phrases.
A comprehensive 4-week poetry curriculum designed for students requiring high structure and visual supports. It covers diverse poetry types (Haiku, Color, Acrostic, Couplets, Concrete, Free Verse, and Metaphor/Simile) with scaffolds like word banks, sentence frames, and graphic organizers.
An immersive project-based learning unit where students become junior journalists. They research environmental topics, extract main ideas and key details, write their own nature articles, and construct 3D models of their subjects.
A 1-page student-facing assessment called the Newsroom Proofreader Assessment. Includes an environmental reading passage, a main idea headline box, supporting detail fields, and beautifully aligned multiple-choice questions.
A year-end writing celebration and awards ceremony designed to recognize growth, effort, and accomplishments in writing.
A 5-slide instructional presentation to introduce the Eco Scoop PBL project. Defines main idea and key details using a newspaper editorial theme, lists 3D biological model guidelines, and outlines the student's project mission.
A comprehensive 15-lesson writing curriculum tailored for middle and high school students with intellectual disabilities. The sequence alternates weekly between personal narratives, evidence-based informational writing, and imagined stories, using heavy visual scaffolding, structured sentence frames, and clear graphic organizers.
A celebratory end-of-year lesson designed to honor student writing growth, showcase final projects, award special honors, and guide students through meaningful reflections on their journey as writers.
A 3-page student-facing workbook. Contains a structured reading passage and graphic organizer to practice extracting main ideas, a research planner for students to sketch their 3D physical models, and a final front-page newspaper template.
An intensive intervention lesson designed to help struggling readers master main idea identification using hands-on, color-coded highlighting strategies. Students learn to dismantle paragraph structures like blueprint architects, physically separating the 'roof' (main idea) from the 'supporting pillars' (details).
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 comprehensive teacher guide for managing the Eco Scoop project-based learning unit. Includes a day-by-day pacing guide, mini-lessons on identifying main ideas, questioning frameworks, and a detailed scoring rubric.
