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 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 highly structured practice worksheet styled like a case file. Students analyze figurative and sensory-rich reading passages, isolate explicit text clues, activate schema, and compose precise, evidence-backed inferences.