A revised student-facing worksheet featuring Joy Harjo's poem 'In New Orleans' with a optimized vertical layout for printing. It includes a combined poem and annotation zone followed by a structured SWIFT analysis section with ample response space.
A thematic, adventure-inspired vocabulary choice board and double-sided activity worksheet focusing on high-frequency academic vocabulary. Includes a clean layout, a clear word guide, and beautifully structured student response areas for reading, drawing, speaking, and writing.
A beautifully formatted, printable 2-page student worksheet designed to teach sentence variety and vocabulary elevation. It breaks down the user's draft as a diagnostic case study, provides stylistic tools (such as inverted conditionals and subordinating openers), shows a fully polished version of the user's paragraph, and concludes with a clean practice workspace.
An answer key for the 50-point adapted unit test on Jason Reynolds' Long Way Down, featuring correct answers for matching, multiple choice, and sample high-scoring responses for short-answer questions.
A 50-point adapted unit test on Jason Reynolds' Long Way Down. Tailored for developmental reading students with matching, 3-option multiple choice, and short-answer questions with traceable sentence starters.
A highly visual study guide for Jason Reynolds' Long Way Down, featuring character profiles, key vocabulary with definitions, and practice questions to prepare developmental reading students for the final assessment.
A 2-page instructional facilitation guide and answer key for teachers. Contains structured pacing guidelines, physical setup steps for the three interactive stations, common cognitive misconceptions and how to address them, and complete keys for the diagnostic worksheet and mentor poem analysis.
A 2-page printable reading comprehension and literary analysis worksheet. Contains two original industrial-themed poems ("The Furnace's Breath" and "The Steel Symphony") featuring dense concentrations of the six figurative devices, paired with high-quality, blank, structured response writing zones.
A comprehensive 2-page printable ledger worksheet for student use. Includes a Diagnostic table for analyzing the core mentor specimens and structured blank forge logs (using clean, high-contrast, blank writing spaces) with matching constraints for all six figurative language devices and a final paragraph assembly challenge.
A high-quality 3-page set of printable Station Activity cards matching the 'Figurative Foundry' theme. Each card details specific mentor examples, core objectives, student tasks, and checking criteria for Simile & Metaphor (Station 1), Personification & Hyperbole (Station 2), and Alliteration & Onomatopoeia (Station 3).
A visually striking and highly cohesive set of 7 instructional slides introducing similes, metaphors, personification, hyperboles, alliteration, and onomatopoeia through the creative theme of an industrial 'Figurative Foundry'. Contains high-contrast visual models, structured pair-based definitions, a guided practice challenge, and discussion debriefs with strict adherence to slide sizing rules.
A condensed, rapid-paced 10-minute station version of the digital SAT vocabulary Jeopardy game designed for student Chromebooks. Students decode 6 core terms across point categories.
A comprehensive facilitator guide with setup instructions, Chromebook game play strategies, and a complete master answer key for the Vocab Vault Jeopardy game.
A student-facing score keeping companion scorecard where agents document their Jeopardy decryptions and points directly from their Chromebook terminal gameplay.
A multi-page holistic rubric for school-wide collaborative debates, focusing heavily on academic argument quality, empirical validation, constructive civil dialogue, responsive rebuttals, and public delivery. Includes scoring charts, student instructions, and feedback guides.
Student-facing study key and self-assessment guide designed to support self-paced play and study. Contains a full breakdown of explanations for all 20 clues and the Final Showdown, as well as a diagnostics score tracker and reflection worksheet.