Snack Heist Mystery

A progressive multi-week handwriting curriculum created for second-grade English language learners. The sequence builds from foundational letter formation and spacing rules, through high-frequency school and home vocabulary, to fluent sentence composition with proper punctuation.

An introductory ESL family vocabulary lesson that builds English foundational terms for Spanish speakers. Students practice recognizing relatives through visual cues, Spanish translations, and bilingual speaking prompts.

A streamlined 6th grade narrative journal writing prompt featuring a single, open-ended prompt with no pre-set clues, accompanied by sentence scaffolds and a student self-check list.

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.

A comprehensive, language-accessible exploration of Natalie Babbitt's *Tuck Everlasting* designed for 6th-grade ELL students. The lesson equips learners with visual story maps, tiered vocabulary, sentence frames, and scaffolded comprehension checks.

An 8-slide visual presentation designed for Spanish speakers learning English family vocabulary. Features bold English terms, Spanish translations, phonetic pronunciation, icon illustrations, and conversational sentence starters with strict 24px+ typography.

A 4-week foundational writing unit for ELPA21 Level 1-2 secondary English learners centered on desert wildlife, featuring 2 lessons per week with daily explicit encoding progressions, cumulative writing reviews, and structured academic sentence frames.

A comprehensive 8-week English Language Development bundle centered on community engagement and civic voice, featuring tiered scaffolds across Entering, Expanding, and Transitioning proficiency levels. Includes two sessions per week with explicit four-domain language targets, differentiated student worksheets, and teacher assessment frameworks.

A two-page printable set of 12 vocabulary index cards for a family unit, featuring essential relatives, definitions, phonetic guides, and sentence frames. Designed with dashed cutting guidelines and visual cue icons for easy cut-apart classroom use.

A 5-day foundational phonics and early literacy unit for ELPA21 Level 1-2 English learners, featuring 45-minute daily lessons centered on desert wildlife that systematically build word identification, CVC decoding, Elkonin box encoding, and decodable reading.

A targeted English Language Learner lesson exploring sensory language (sight, sound, and touch) in Chapter 3 of *James and the Giant Peach*. Designed specifically for Entering and Emerging multilingual learners using Total Physical Response, visual scaffolds, and structured sentence frames.

A comprehensive 2-page teacher answer key and scoring guide providing complete solutions, correct structural ordering, transition identification, and rubric notes for both the ELD Level II (Test #4) and ELD Level IV Bridging (Test #3) informational essay quizzes.