Vowel Detectives

A two-day early literacy sequence for kindergarten and first grade ESL newcomers focusing on letter identification, phonemic awareness, and formation for letters H through M.

A sequence writing lesson for early elementary multilingual learners focused on procedural how-to writing for baking a cake. It provides simplified vocabulary, visual picture cards, and step-by-step scaffolds.

A visual picture dictionary and vocabulary reference sheet designed for first-grade multilingual learners. Features illustrated picture cards for the most essential cake baking verbs, kitchen tools, and delicious results, complete with bold labels and sentence building scaffolds.

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 differentiated lesson resource set providing informational essay structure quizzes and graphic organizers for English language learners across proficiency levels.

A landscape 5-column sequence writing word bank for first-grade multilingual learners. Features the prompt photo at the top of each step column, clear transition words, essential verbs, key nouns, and illustrated picture cards with labels for each step's kitchen tools.

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.

An engaging, hands-on ESL lesson where second graders master focus statements, key details, and conclusions through a collaborative detective matching game, guided teacher scaffolds, and differentiated practice.

A non-evaluative classroom observation and collaborative feedback protocol designed for ELD specialists visiting content classrooms. It features low-inference student evidence logging, asset-based guiding domains, and a strengths-focused debrief structure to co-plan multilingual learner scaffolds.

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 professional development session for secondary and middle school content teachers illustrating how the WIDA ACCESS exam tests disciplinary academic language rather than social conversational English. It equips math, science, and history educators with concrete disciplinary examples, Tier 2 vocabulary matrices, and classroom discourse routines to boost multilingual learner scores.

An English Learners practice worksheet focusing on the be-verbs 'is' and 'are'. Students use visual cues, anchor rules, sentence frames, and scaffolded exercises to master singular and plural subject-verb agreement.