A highly visual assessment lesson for 9th-grade WIDA Level 1-2 ELL students covering Book 11 of The Odyssey (the Underworld). Features simplified language, scaffolded graphic organizers, and character matching.
A reading comprehension and vocabulary lesson based on the final chapter of Treasure Island.
A deep-dive reading analysis of chapters 31-36 of the novel 'Knead', exploring student comprehension and character inference.
A highly scaffolded, visual lesson covering Book 9 of The Odyssey (the Cyclops). Focuses on character roles, sequencing Odysseus's escape plan, and cause-and-effect vocabulary for WIDA Level 1-2 ELL students.
An introductory lesson bundle for Jerry Spinelli's novel Stargirl, focusing on the author's background, desert setting of Mica, Arizona, key characters, and contextual vocabulary for Chapters 1 and 2.
An intensive ESL lesson focused on Memorial Day history, academic vocabulary acquisition, and proofreading skills such as verb tense consistency, capitalization, homophones, and sentence structure.
A lesson containing a 5-day student bell ringer packet and a teacher guide with detailed answer keys and Google Apps Script code to build corresponding Google Forms.
A scaffolded introductory lesson on identifying unreliable narrators in gothic literature. Students read a custom suspenseful practice story and complete targeted skill-building activities before diving into Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart'.
A high-interest persuasive writing lesson where students analyze the impact of technology on society, select a stance on topics like social media limits or video game benefits, and construct a structured persuasive argument.
A comprehensive English Language Arts lesson where students plan and design a graphic memoir panel or comic strip capturing a significant milestone. Designed to support Special Education students via multimodal expression while challenging high school students with concise dialogue and visual symbolism.
A vocabulary review lesson utilizing a thematic Choice Board Matrix, focusing on critical thinking, collaborative partner speaking, reading comprehension, visual sketching, and creative writing.
An assessment package for Jason Reynolds' novel Long Way Down, tailored for developmental reading students. Includes a highly visual study guide and a matching 50-point adapted test.
An immersive, hands-on lesson exploring six major types of figurative language through structured station activities, a collaborative workshop, mentor poetry analysis, and an interactive slideshow. Students learn to identify, analyze, and craft similes, metaphors, personification, hyperboles, alliteration, and onomatopoeia.