Mountain Climb Do Now

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 literary analysis lesson centered on Demi's folktale The Empty Pot, guiding students to analyze central themes, contrasting character perspectives, and textual evidence.

A rigorous two-page group analysis worksheet for The Empty Pot with significantly enlarged, student-friendly response boxes for theme identification, textual evidence collection, character perspective comparison, and plot causation.

A multi-day Minecraft-inspired English language arts adventure where students decode, analyze, and craft with figurative idioms. Learners complete Overworld, Nether, and End missions to unlock master linguist status.

Lesson 5 is a culminating writing synthesis workshop where secondary emerging ELs independently construct a 2-to-3 sentence academic response with question answering and reasoning, featuring cumulative syllable and affix dictation, checklist, and rubric.

A print-ready double-sided or 2-up half-sheet exit ticket assessing student comprehension of central theme, textual evidence, and the broader purpose of themes in literature for The Empty Pot.

A three-day instructional sequence designed to guide students from identifying strong and weak evidence to building explanation bridges and independently applying textual proof in opinion writing.

Lesson 4 instructs secondary emerging writers to build a 2-sentence response (Sentence 1 answers the question; Sentence 2 explains or provides reasoning with 'Because' or 'This is because'), alongside advanced affix encoding (-tion, -ment, -ly) and 2 sentence dictations.

A two-page 7th-grade paired text guide featuring an in-depth prompt deconstruction for Digging for Dollars and Floating Gold, followed by core reading analysis questions and an accessible model response.

A comprehensive 6th-grade ELA assessment unit focused on foundational reading comprehension, vocabulary acquisition, and literary and informational text analysis across fiction and non-fiction.

Lesson 3 teaches students how to restate questions to construct complete single-sentence academic answers, practice suffix affix encoding (-er, -or, -ful, -less) via syllable dictation, and complete 2 sentence dictations alongside informational reading.

A comprehensive flexible group graphic organizer for analyzing theme, dual character perspectives, and plot-driving actions in Demi's folktale The Empty Pot.