ACCESS Ascent Goal Sheet

A 3-day collaborative audio mystery unit where a pair of 7th-grade ELL students act as investigative podcasters. Students develop speaking and listening mastery through witness interviews, suspenseful scriptwriting, sound effects, and a recorded audio broadcast.

A seasonal writing and speaking workshop for 6th grade English language learners on the day before Halloween, featuring inclusive storytelling pathways, multimodal drawing scaffolds, and structured peer conversation protocols.

A 122-word reading passage about Robin Hood emphasizing his legendary adventures alongside the ongoing debate of whether he was real or a myth. It features proper nouns and multiple regular verbs in past, present, and future tenses.

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.

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 colorful 2-page teacher model exemplar demonstrating a complete student response for the Autumn Voices Activity. Features an illustrated harvest scene with detailed characters showing expressive faces and hairstyles, blank student header lines, color-coded grammar and sensory vocabulary highlights, a mentor paragraph, and a scripted partner dialogue.

A 5-week foundational writing intervention for secondary emerging English learners focused on school and community themes, featuring syllable and affix encoding, 2 sentence dictations per lesson, sentence parts and building, and culminating in two-sentence question responses with reasoning.

A bilingual literature and language lesson analyzing how James' profound misery and isolation under his cruel aunts motivate him to trust an eccentric stranger with magic crystals in Chapter 4 of Roald Dahl's *James and the Giant Peach*. Tailored for entering and emerging multilingual learners with dual-language passages, visual anchors, and structured sentence frames.

A comprehensive 2-page writing, speaking, and drawing activity for 6th grade English language learners on the day before Halloween. It features two inclusive writing pathways (Spooky Halloween Mystery vs. Autumn Harvest Festival), multimodal drawing space with descriptive labels, WIDA-aligned sentence frames and sensory word banks, and a structured partner speaking and listening protocol.

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, 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.

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.