A full-length practice experience featuring an informational passage, tiered evidence-based questions, and a narrative writing task.

A strategy-focused guide to help students master EBSR questions and vocabulary in context through the lens of a detective's investigative blueprint.

Five days of quick ELA warm-ups to build stamina and recall for key test-taking strategies and vocabulary skills.

A lesson designed to empower high school students with the tools to navigate digital misinformation, focusing on the SIFT method, identifying emotional bias, and spotting sponsored content.

A comprehensive exemplar analysis essay of John Green's 'Turtles All the Way Down' focusing on text structure, literary devices, and character dynamics. Includes a targeted guide to academic transition words for 10th-grade writers.

Explore the complex, self-serving relationships in Chapter 4 of The Great Gatsby. Students analyze characters through the lens of social transactions and complete a creative response on character motivations and the 'cost' of their social deals.

A simplified independent work packet about the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, designed for middle school students at a second-grade reading level. The lesson explores the power of music, love, and the consequences of looking back through accessible texts and structured comprehension tasks.

This lesson breaks down the 5-point STAAR English I Argumentative ECR rubric using 'The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant' as a central text. Students analyze graded examples and practice scoring a new essay to master the criteria for evidence, organization, and conventions.

A focused study of Chapter 3 of Julia Alvarez's 'In the Time of the Butterflies', focusing on Maria Teresa's loss of innocence and her first glimpses into the political reality of Trujillo's Dominican Republic.

A lesson exploring the contrast between the glittering surface of Gatsby's parties and the underlying reality of the 1920s, designed for Level 2 English Language Learners.

In this lesson, students become 'Plot Investigators' to distinguish between a story's topic and its main idea. Using mystery-themed tools like a 3-2-1 countdown and the RACES writing strategy, students will learn to extract key evidence from fables and short stories to construct well-supported thematic statements.

A creative final project for Shakespeare's Macbeth that requires students to synthesize textual evidence with visual art. Students choose a central theme or character arc to illustrate, supporting their artistic choices with cited quotes from the play.