News Characteristics Deck

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 combined, high-octane 8-slide presentation for compacted Lessons 10 and 11 (Using Observations to Create a Second Character & Putting Them Into a Mundane Situation). This presentation introduces the concept of a literary foil, models show-not-tell revision, and guides students through planning and drafting their second character's morning scene.

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'.