Architectural Revision Portfolio

A reading comprehension lesson designed for 8th-grade self-contained ELA students reading at a 5th-6th grade level. It includes a scaffolded student worksheet with visual multiple-choice options and a teacher guide with pacing and strategies.

An English listening and speaking lesson where students analyze a crime news broadcast, practice using past simple and past continuous, and debate the ethics of citizen intervention.

A summer reading program designed for 4th graders, structured as an adventure field guide to track books, analyze chapters, and practice active reading strategies.

A premium, student-facing draft and rule booklet for English Listening and Speaking (L&S) across 8 core units of pronunciation and speech skills.

A comprehensive 3rd-grade grammar unit covering essential noun, adjective, verb, and adverb suffixes. Through engaging matching, fill-in-the-blank, and sentence writing exercises, students learn to identify, decode, and use these word parts in worksheets and a workbook.

A comprehensive 3rd-grade grammar unit covering essential Greek and Latin roots: dict, duct, fect, fract, junct, struct, min, and spec. Through engaging matching, fill-in-the-blank, and sentence writing exercises, students learn to identify, decode, and use these word parts in worksheets and a workbook.

A comprehensive 3rd-grade grammar unit covering essential prefixes: un-, im-/in-/ir-, dis-, non-, re-, mis-, and pre-. Through an engaging 'Prefix Patrol' detective theme, students learn to identify, decode, and use these word parts in worksheets and cumulative review keys.

An active, safari-themed Write-the-Room scavenger hunt designed specifically for struggling first-grade readers to identify and understand key nonfiction text features through movement and visual cues.

A comprehensive foundational reading review lesson that focuses on phonics concepts from HD Word Foundations. Includes a multi-page student activity packet and a corresponding teacher answer key for diagnostic and remedial instruction.

A differentiated decoding lesson designed for 3rd-6th grade struggling readers to practice reading and spelling multisyllabic words with vowel teams, vowel-consonant-e, r-controlled, and consonant-le patterns through interactive puzzle activities.

An application-focused reading intervention lesson reinforcing ie/igh vowel teams in connected reading and spelling. Designed for high school struggling readers, this lesson integrates a cumulative long-vowel team review (ai/ay, ee/ea/ey, oa/ow/oe) and dictation tasks.

An explicit, highly scaffolded reading intervention lesson introducing long i vowel teams (ie, igh) while reviewing silent-e (i_e) through structured word sorting, guided spelling comparison, and phrase reading.

An application-focused reading intervention lesson reinforcing oa/ow/oe vowel teams in connected reading and spelling. Designed for high school struggling readers, this lesson integrates a cumulative long-vowel team review (ai/ay, ee/ea/ey) and dictation tasks.

Students read an adapted news article about Jen Rubino, a teenager who founded Cards for Hospitalized Kids to bring hope and joy to patients across the country. They practice identifying main ideas and details.

Students read an adapted news article about a teenager who created school "care lockers" to supply classmates with free daily hygiene essentials and school supplies. They practice identifying main ideas and details.

An explicit, highly scaffolded reading intervention lesson introducing long o vowel teams (oa, ow, oe) while reviewing silent-e (o_e) through structured word sorting, guided spelling comparison, and phrase reading.

Students read an adapted news article about Yash Gupta, a teenager who started a nonprofit to provide glasses to children in need. They practice identifying the main idea and supporting details through text-dependent comprehension questions.

A comprehensive mini-lesson bundle designed to teach students the crucial rules of indentation, paragraph transitions, formatting dialogue, and avoiding common academic essay pitfalls. Uses a retro-arcade 'Indent Invaders' theme to keep students engaged in structural writing mechanics.

An application-focused reading intervention lesson reinforcing ee/ea/ey vowel teams in connected reading and spelling. Designed for high school struggling readers, this lesson contrasts vowel teams with the silent-e (e_e) pattern and reviews previous long a spellings.

A comprehensive, multi-sensory phonics lesson targeting short 'a' CVC words. Includes interactive slides, a structured lesson plan, hands-on workstation activities, and baseline tracking tools designed for early readers.

An explicit, highly scaffolded reading intervention lesson introducing long e vowel teams (ee, ea, ey) while reviewing long a vowel teams (ai, ay) through structured word sorting, guided reading, and spelling rules.

An application-focused reading intervention lesson reinforcing ai/ay vowel teams in connected reading and spelling. Designed for high school struggling readers, this lesson incorporates a robust r-controlled vowel review and advanced word sorting.

An explicit, highly scaffolded reading intervention lesson focusing on the long a spelling patterns ai and ay. Designed for high school struggling readers, this lesson contrasts these new vowel teams with the familiar silent-e (a_e) pattern through structured decoding, word analysis, and writing tasks.

A formal mastery assessment designed to track high school students' decoding accuracy, spelling, and phonetic discrimination across all major r-controlled vowel families.

A phonics and morphology lesson featuring a bingo game to practice decoding and decomposing multisyllabic words with split-vowel bases and affixes. Students analyze prefixes, base words, and suffixes while reinforcing vocabulary definitions.

A reading comprehension lesson centered on outer space, teaching beginning fourth graders how to identify main ideas, supporting details, and use context clues for vocabulary with large-print text and visual highlights.

A reading comprehension lesson centered on outer space, teaching beginning fourth graders how to identify main ideas, supporting details, and use context clues for vocabulary with large-print text and visual highlights.

A reading comprehension lesson focused on active sports-themed stories, teaching beginning fourth graders how to identify and analyze cause-and-effect relationships with visual scaffolds and text-based evidence.

A reading comprehension lesson based on the real-world charity 'Cards for Hospitalized Kids'. Students analyze the author's purpose and perspective behind the organization's founding and its ongoing mission to spread joy.

An advanced spelling lesson exploring the complex 'capable of being' suffixes: -able and -ible. Students learn rule-based decision paths to master these high-frequency adjectives, supported by a 50-minute pacing guide and extra practice sheets.

The culminating phase of the unit, featuring a comprehensive final assessment and unit-wide reflection on Edgar Allan Poe's literary impact.

A study of 'The Fall of the House of Usher' examining complex sentence structures, psychological deterioration, and the masterfully constructed atmospheric mood.

A deep dive into 'The Raven,' focusing on poetic structure, haunting rhythm, symbolic motifs like the bust of Pallas, and the descent into grief-induced madness.

An analysis of 'The Cask of Amontillado,' examining the mechanics of revenge, dramatic and verbal irony, and the atmospheric horror of the catacombs.

An exploration of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Tell-Tale Heart' focusing on the psychology of an unreliable narrator, techniques of building suspense, and the manifestation of guilt.

An intensive review lesson designed to reinforce r-controlled vowel patterns (ar, or, ore, er, ir, ur, wor) through oral sound sorts, mixed word reading, and sentence-level application.

An intensive preparation unit designed to master the ACCUPLACER Next-Generation Writing section. Students practice identifying and correcting run-ons, pronoun-antecedent agreement, dangling modifiers, and structural organization using standard-aligned passages.