River Market Adventure Activity

A 2-page reading activity about Thailand's floating markets. It includes a nonfiction narrative about a girl named Mali and features dedicated work areas for students to make inferences and predictions based on the text.

Ccarlsond

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Word Builders

A foundational vocabulary and morphology unit designed specifically for high school newcomer ESL students. It focuses on breaking down unfamiliar English words into high-frequency prefixes, suffixes, and root words using heavy visual aids, scaffolded sentence stems, and highly collaborative activities.

Miguel Liendo Navarro

Quest Homecoming Feast

The celebratory final meeting of the book clubs, designed as a festive victory banquet. Students commemorate their protagonist's return through a grand ceremonial toast, active crossover badge trading with other groups, and a high-interest 5-minute teaser of the Hero's Journey mapping project.

Tasha Wigmore

Mountain Banquet Example Document

A completed 2-page teacher example of the Homecoming Banquet Placemat for the novel "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin. Features specific, high-quality sample student responses mapping Minli's journey while leaving classmate names and signatures blank for pedagogical modeling.

Tasha Wigmore

Poetry Pathways

A comprehensive 4-week poetry curriculum designed for students requiring high structure and visual supports. It covers diverse poetry types (Haiku, Color, Acrostic, Couplets, Concrete, Free Verse, and Metaphor/Simile) with scaffolds like word banks, sentence frames, and graphic organizers.

V Lundgren

Word Part Detectives

A dynamic 90-minute lesson where newcomers learn to identify root words, prefixes, and suffixes. Through color-coded physical cards, collaborative games, and visual anchor charts, students practice decoding unfamiliar words and speaking with structured sentence frames.

Miguel Liendo Navarro

Homecoming Feast Teacher Guide

A 1-page teacher facilitation guide for running the final book club celebration meeting. Features a 45-minute step-by-step lesson plan, classroom setup checklist, teacher talk scripts for a theatrical 'Toast Ceremony', and instructions for scaffolding both the Hero's Journey preview and the crossover networking activity.

Tasha Wigmore

Poetry Pathways

V Lundgren

Word Architecture

A middle school vocabulary lesson exploring 3-to-4 syllable academic words ending in the suffix -ture. Students examine pronunciation, morphological structure, definitions, and applications through a technical drafting/blueprint theme.

Lenny

Homecoming Banquet Placemat

A 2-page celebratory student worksheet for the final book club meeting in a light, celebratory banquet theme. Page 1 features an epic toast-writing activity, a refined Coronation of the Return block with explicit directions and perfectly aligned CSS-dashed writing lines, and a 3-step Hero's Journey roadmap with Hero's Journey branding. Page 2 features a gamified crossover badge exchange board with responsive CSS-dashed layout borders for neat student handwriting alignment under the Hero's Journey brand.

Tasha Wigmore

Space Explorers Alphabet Mission

A 4-week ELA workbook and instructional sequence themed around outer space exploration. Focuses on letter recognition, sounds, foundational handwriting, and early phonics using SATPIN, the full A-Z, vowels and consonants, and tricky letter pairs.

samantha.davis

Vowel Team Knockout

An energetic classroom phonics lesson where students compete in a friendly Knockout tournament to master vowel teams and diphthongs. Includes interactive instructional and gameplay slides, plus a student tracking sheet.

Michelle Low

Detective Exit Ticket

A 2-page assessment pack featuring a 1-page student exit ticket with word part identification and sentence completion, followed by a detailed teacher answer key page.

River Market Adventure Activity