Big Word Safari Activity

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 intermediate ESL reading comprehension lesson exploring urban wildlife adaptations. Students analyze informational text, acquire Tier 2 academic vocabulary, and practice textual evidence citation with scaffolded language supports.

A high-school level phonics and phonemic awareness worksheet designed for WIDA 1.9 multilingual learners, featuring visual anchors, minimal-pair discrimination, missing vowel fill-ins, and structured word sorting for short e vs. short i and short o vs. short u.

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 culminating writing synthesis workshop where secondary newcomer English learners (ELPA21 Level 1-2) produce a multi-sentence piece (either an opinion or an informational summary) using cumulative word banks, scaffolds, and a detailed 4-point rubric.

Educator answer key, exemplary student response models, scoring rubric, and language support remediation strategies for the City Survivors reading comprehension packet.

A multi-day systematic phonics sequence introducing beginning consonant blends with short vowels. Students progress from initial L-blends and R-blends to S-blends, culminating in comprehensive mixed decoding, orthographic mapping, and decodable sentence reading.

Week 2, Lesson 2 guides secondary newcomer English learners (ELPA21 Level 1-2) to justify opinions about desert plant survivors using evidence, featuring explicit VCe long vowel encoding, cumulative review of Lesson 3 opinions, and an aligned background reader.

Student reading comprehension packet featuring an illustrated informational text on urban wildlife adaptations, Tier 2 vocabulary glossary, text evidence matrix, and scaffolded comprehension questions.

A three-part ESL orientation sequence designed to build confidence, low-stress speaking routines, and peer connections through personal introductions and interactive classroom games.

Week 2, Lesson 1 guides secondary newcomer English learners (ELPA21 Level 1-2) to state academic opinions on desert animal survivors, featuring explicit consonant digraph encoding (sh, ch, th), cumulative review of Week 1 writing, and structured opinion frames.

Instructional slide deck for intermediate ESL students introducing urban wildlife concepts, pre-teaching Tier 2 vocabulary, modeling reading strategies, and scaffolding partner discussion.