Word Forge Reference Sheet

A five-day daily warm-up sequence for 8th grade intervention classrooms featuring reading comprehension, sentence mechanics, and multiplication array modeling across three compact print pages.

A 6th-grade expository writing lesson for Multilingual Learners focused on composing an informative insider's guide to a favorite hobby. It integrates WIDA End of Level 3 descriptors including essay organization, noun classifiers, and compound sentences alongside visual classroom supports.

A curated two-page topic bank and thesis-planning guide for 8th-grade ELA cause-and-effect essays, featuring 25 non-cliché prompts across science, history, psychology, and culture with an integrated graphic organizer.

A comprehensive twelve-week scaffolded daily bell ringer sequence designed to help students master restating the question, featuring an initial six-week core sequence and a dedicated six-week Tier 2 intervention for students requiring additional practice.

A focused one-period instructional unit for 6th and 7th grade students that demystifies essay writing by breaking five-paragraph essays into manageable, modular components. Includes an engaging slide deck, student guided practice blueprint, exit check, and comprehensive teacher pacing guide.

A curated collection of 25 imaginative and engaging cause-and-effect essay prompts designed for 8th grade ELA students. Each prompt provides an unconventional, thought-provoking cause without hints, leaving students to determine the resulting domino effects. Includes a cause-and-effect launchpad planning box for students to map out their essay's progression.

A comprehensive two-part 6th-grade informational reading comprehension unit centered on analyzing multi-paragraph nonfiction texts. Students identify paragraph-level main ideas, evaluate textual supporting evidence, and synthesize overall central ideas.

A complete set of student-friendly 2-page scoring rubrics and self-assessment checklists for Indiana ILEARN writing performance tasks across Persuasive/Argumentative, Informative, and Narrative genres for Grades 3, 4–6, and 7–8.

A comprehensive two-page graphic organizer guiding students to evaluate research sources across credibility, relevance, accuracy, and bias to make an evidence-based selection decision.

A comprehensive 6th-grade ELA assessment unit focused on foundational reading comprehension, vocabulary acquisition, and literary and informational text analysis across fiction and non-fiction.

A high-energy 7th-grade ELAR lesson exploring poetic sound devices including alliteration, consonance, assonance, onomatopoeia, and rhyme variations. Students examine auditory textures in verse, dissect classic and modern mentor lines, and craft their own sound-driven poetry.

A focused one-page practice worksheet covering comparative adjective rules and sentence construction. Students transform base adjectives, complete context-based animal showdown comparisons, and craft their own comparative sentences.