Writing 1 - T2

A 5-week foundational writing intervention (2 lessons per week) for secondary emerging English learners at UHS, carrying over structured syntax and phonemic encoding while introducing descriptive noun expansion, adjectives, sentence building, and reasoned two-sentence academic responses.

Lesson 5 is a culminating writing synthesis workshop where secondary emerging ELs independently construct a 2-to-3 sentence academic response with question answering and reasoning, featuring cumulative syllable and affix dictation, checklist, and rubric.

A two-page 7th-grade paired text guide featuring an in-depth prompt deconstruction for Digging for Dollars and Floating Gold, followed by core reading analysis questions and an accessible model response.

A comprehensive small-group reading intervention sequence targeting Indiana Standard RC.1 for students approaching proficiency on ILEARN Checkpoint 1. Across multiple targeted units, students master explicit detail citation, main idea synthesis, text-grounded inferences, and two-part evidence items.

Lesson 4 instructs secondary emerging writers to build a 2-sentence response (Sentence 1 answers the question; Sentence 2 explains or provides reasoning with 'Because' or 'This is because'), alongside advanced affix encoding (-tion, -ment, -ly) and 2 sentence dictations.

A 2-page print-ready background reader for Lesson 5 featuring prominent Lesson 5 header labeling, an informational text on graduation and future career pathways on Page 1, and an aligned 5-word cloze reading passage on Page 2.

A high-impact multimodal reading comprehension curriculum offering differentiated audio, visual, and kinesthetic pathways for high school students reading at a 6th-grade level.

A 2-page print-ready culminating student writing project sheet for Lesson 5 featuring prominent Lesson 5 header labeling, warm-up question response, cumulative syllable/affix dictation, 2 sentence dictations, two choice pathways, 2-sentence drafting organizer, published handwriting lines, checklist, and scoring rubric.

A 3-day narrative writing unit for first graders that guides students through planning characters and setting, drafting a three-part fictional tale with sentence starters, and editing conventions.