Slide deck for Lesson 5 on writing with tone. Features "transformation" examples, a toolkit for writing, and peer review guidelines.
A comprehensive year-long tier 2 vocabulary curriculum designed for struggling readers in grades 3-6. Utilizing an architectural theme, this curriculum guides students in building words using prefixes, suffixes, synonyms, and antonyms through explicit instruction, daily oral practice, and multisensory graphic organizers.
A 6th Grade ELA lesson exploring how Roald Dahl's unusual and dark childhood shaped his narrative style. Students analyze mentor excerpts from 'Boy', unpack sensory language and suspense techniques, and practice crafting their own subverted narrative descriptions.
A print-ready 2-page student worksheet containing guided practice, sensory analysis of 'Boy', and a dedicated workspace to draft a mini-twist narrative paragraph.
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.
Consolidated daily routines, student practice workbooks, and oral vocabulary materials for Unit 1: Weeks 2 through 5. Focuses on the roots -tract-, -ject-, -port-, and -cover-.
An interactive, highly thematic slide presentation for direct instruction and student engagement. Explores Roald Dahl's dark biography, analyzes sensory suspense in excerpts from 'Boy', and outlines narrative strategies for subverting reader expectations.
The fully realized prototype kit for Week 1 (Target words: Construct, Destruct, Reconstruct, Structure). Includes the daily instructional slide deck, student workbooks, oral language speaking cards, and printable anchor charts.
A comprehensive 3-page teacher-facing guide mapping out the day-by-day routines, quarters, pedagogical scripting, and differentiation strategies for the entire 40-week curriculum.
