An ELA-focused teacher guide for English 1, focusing on bridging literary evidence with analysis/commentary through character motivation and diction.
A reading intervention unit targeting the critical spelling changes that occur at suffix boundaries, designed for older struggling readers. The sequence covers final consonant doubling and silent-e dropping logic.
An engaging grammar and nonverbal communication lesson where high school students explore parts of speech, facial expressions, and body language through creative storytelling and mad libs.
A comprehensive, 10-page Mad Libs packet featuring five high-interest scenarios. Each scenario is a 2-page set including a dedicated Word Prep planning page with 12 vocabulary slots, and a full-page, 500-word narrative with wide handwriting blanks for vocational comedies and high school drama.
A structured reading intervention sequence at Douglas School combining targeted phonic lessons with the multisensory Nessy online literacy system.
A scaffolded unit designed to help 5th-grade developing and emerging students create a mock e-commerce book listing for a novel they have read. This lesson breaks down complex writing tasks like summaries, quotes, and editorial reviews into structured, bite-sized templates with built-in sentence frames.
A comprehensive word bank featuring curated, high-interest nouns, verbs, adjectives, emotions, body language, and facial expressions with descriptive icons for high school level writing.
A structured high school reading intervention sequence focusing on silent consonants, orthographic markers, pluralization rules, and academic spelling structures.
A comprehensive Unit 9 spelling and decoding diagnostic assessment for high school readers. It includes student test sections for spelling-change rules, alternate-spelling recognition, sound-sorting, and sentence reading.
A professional and sleek anchor chart defining parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives) and nonverbal communication elements (emotions, body language, facial expressions) with high-school appropriate definitions and examples.
A phonics intervention unit for high school readers focusing on short oo patterns, sound contrasts, and spelling application.
A comprehensive Unit 9 review lesson for high school readers. This lesson synthesizes and reinforces the consonant doubling rule, drop-e rule, y-to-i shift, unaccented final -ar/-or, alternate /air/ and /ear/ vowel contrasts, and alternate long-a spellings.
A 1-page student-facing draft worksheet designed for Grade 5 developing writers. It provides generous writing space (2 dashed lines per section) and clear color-coded sentence starters for each part of the Somebody (Red), Wanted (Yellow), But (Blue), So (Orange), Then (Green) summary framework.
