Heartwood Stories Teacher Guide

A 5-page printable student workbook for Week 2 (Informational Writing). Features high-contrast animal topic cards, cut-and-paste fact builders, visual habitat trackers, and a poster assembly draft sheet tailored for special education.

A 5-page printable student workbook covering Week 1 (Personal Narrative) and Week 3 (Creative Story). Features large double-lined handwriting spaces (minimum 32px), high-contrast borders, visual choice cards, and a final 4-panel storyboard template.

An interactive and visual 9-slide digital presentation for Week 2 (Informational Writing). Structured around an "Info Detective" theme, featuring oversized fonts (minimum 24px), simplified evidence cards, and structured sentence builders for students with moderate intellectual disabilities.

A highly visual 12-slide digital presentation for Week 1 (Personal Narratives) and Week 3 (Imagined Narratives). Features a gamified quest design, massive font sizes (minimum 24px), structured choice panels, and explicit transition-word templates for students with intellectual disabilities.

A comprehensive 4-page Teacher's Curriculum Guide containing structured lesson plans, differentiation rubrics, and scaffolded writing frameworks for all 15 lessons in the sequence. Tailored specifically for students with intellectual disabilities, featuring high-contrast guides and visual checklists.

A 10-page expanded student workbook featuring visual graphic organizers, fill-in-the-blank rhythm charts, slant-rhyme matching activities, punchline generators, and a step-by-step drafting layout for a 16-bar rap verse.

A scaffolded version of the patient chart handout tailored for English learners and struggling writers. It includes pre-identified sentence placeholders, multiple-choice diagnostic options, structural hints, and guided sentence starters to support students in performing clinical text surgery.

An immersive 1-page student handout containing a continuous, numbered, and error-ridden draft of the 'Play to Learn' video game essay. It includes contextual errors such as structural displacements, slang, off-topic fluff, run-on sentences, and grammatical fractures for students to identify directly in context.

A 1-page analytical rubric structured as a 'Surgical Success Rubric' with an integrated student self-assessment checklist and score tally box.

A highly structured 2-page graphic organizer designed as a 'Surgical Reconstruction Log' where student pairs transplant, suture, and rewrite the final essay.

A student-facing 2-page 'Patient File' containing the scrambled 'Sick Draft' with name/date fields, and a diagnostic worksheet where students analyze structural errors and off-topic paragraphs.

A high-impact 1-page visual anchor chart structured as an 'Essay Triage Manual' detailing the '4 Vital Organs' of an essay and the 3-step 'Surgical Procedure' for editing.

A comprehensive 2-page teacher guide outlining the lesson flow, surgical steps for draft triage, pedagogical guidance, and a complete diagnostic answer key for the 'Sick Draft'.

An 8th-grade level, 2-page practice sheet containing a bank of 25 sentence specimens (a mix of healthy and fractured modifiers). Students classify each specimen as Healthy or Fractured using visual diagnostic checkboxes and rewrite any fractured sentences on the provided lines.

A set of 8 printable classroom task cards featuring highly comical dangling and misplaced modifier sentences. Designed in a 2x2 grid per page across a 2-page document with a consistent 'Sentence Surgery' medical theme, each card presents an 'emergency patient' sentence with prompts for identifying the modifier error and writing a suture.

An 8th-grade level, 2-page practice worksheet themed as a 'Modifier Repair Lab' medical record. Students diagnose 7 sentence specimens, identifying them as 'Healthy' (correct) or 'Fractured' (dangling/misplaced modifiers), and rewrite the fractured sentences using a clear 3-step surgical formula.

A visual slide deck that introduces participle phrases and modifiers through a 'sentence surgery' theme. It details the 3-step surgical protocol for repairing dangling and misplaced modifiers with color-coded examples and step-by-step demonstrations.

A professional, teacher-facing pacing guide and gifted adaptation planner for Amplify ELA Grade 6 Unit 6B. Compresses the 32-day curriculum into an academically rigorous 24-25 day calendar designed for high-ability fifth graders.

A scaffolded writing prompt worksheet that guides students through analyzing a major event in the Neanderthal dentistry article, complete with a brainstorming organizer and structured writing lines.

A clean, high-contrast 5-slide presentation designed to introduce the architectural paragraph metaphor. Features a minimalist design with a pure white background, generous whitespace, and color-coded highlighter modeling to teach 'Roof' (Main Idea) and 'Pillars' (Supporting Details) structures.

A comprehensive IEP goal tracking and progress monitoring sheet for teachers. Includes individual student tracking templates, a progress rubric, and data logs for recording scores over multiple rotations.

A narrative writing planning graphic organizer companion. Includes highly structured guided prompts for characters, plot structure, sensory language, story resolution, and an embedded IEP goal progress-monitoring rubric.