The Curiosity Compass Script

Facilitator script for Lesson 5 of the Thinking Readers Program. Aligned with Bloom's Taxonomy (Understand, Analyze, Evaluate). Teaches the Curiosity Compass strategy for generated questioning. Revised for branding and layout.

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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

Phonics Power Sprint

An accelerated, high-impact review of Fundations Level 2 phonics concepts, consolidating Units 11-17 into an intensive curriculum. This sequence focuses on double vowel syllables (vowel teams), multi-syllabic words, and essential high-frequency heart words to build rapid decoding and spelling mastery.

npowers

Crop Clever

An interactive Grade 2 English Language Arts lesson based on the book Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens, focusing on evidence-based character traits, comparing lazy Bear and clever Hare.

Cheryl Carlson

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

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

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

Poetry Pathways

V Lundgren

Heart Word Headquarters

A complete suite of orthographic mapping references and student folder aids for Really Great Reading curricula, featuring both Countdown and Blast levels.

Lynn Zendano

Symbol Detectives Academy

A systematic 15-day visual discernment sequence designed for early learners to master symbol identification. Over 15 days, students progress from simple letter-versus-object contrasts to complex character comparisons, similarity checks, and functional print identification.

Gena Robinson (sub)

Step by Step Writing Quest

A comprehensive 15-lesson writing curriculum tailored for middle and high school students with intellectual disabilities. The sequence alternates weekly between personal narratives, evidence-based informational writing, and imagined stories, using heavy visual scaffolding, structured sentence frames, and clear graphic organizers.

The Curiosity Compass Script