A 5-lesson poetry writing unit designed for incarcerated men ages 18-25 with elementary to middle school literacy levels. The unit focuses on self-expression, identity, and resilience through structured and free-form poetry.

A 5-day small group reading sequence for 3rd grade focusing on author's opinion, text structure, and comparing multiple texts through a detective-themed 'case file' approach.

A writing unit where students act as 'Break Detectives'. It begins with descriptive sentence writing and culminates in a formal three-paragraph report about their summer missions.

A literacy unit for 3rd grade exploring symbiotic relationships in nature, focusing on reading comprehension, text evidence, and comparing informational texts.

A comprehensive unit on donuts that combines informational and fictional texts to practice foundational reading skills, vocabulary, and comprehension strategies modeled after IREAD-3.

A series of Grade 4 ELA lessons focused on mastering the skill of making inferences through engaging mystery stories. Each lesson covers the inference equation, vocabulary, and evidence-based comprehension.

A comprehensive 5-day sequence focused on soft c (_ce) and soft g (_ge) in VCE words, including heart words 'other' and 'another'. Students practice phonemic awareness, word mapping, spelling, and reading fluency with a magical theme.

A focused phonics unit targeting the long 'o' silent 'e' pattern (o_e) and high-frequency heart words 'brother', 'mother', and 'father' through narrative reading and orthographic mapping.

A comprehensive unit for 'Flipped' by Wendelin Van Draanen, exploring the evolving perspectives of Bryce Loski and Juli Baker as they navigate family secrets, social pressure, and personal growth.

A celebratory series of activities leading up to Mother's Day, focusing on expressing appreciation and developing creative writing skills through a magazine-style project.

A unit focused on teaching 3rd grade students how to use text evidence to answer questions across various informational texts. Includes explicit instruction on keywords, annotation, and comparing details across multiple sources.

A month-long journaling program designed for third-grade students, focusing on personal interests like baseball, animals, and sharks to build narrative, persuasive, and opinion writing skills.

A comprehensive phonics and word study unit that progresses from foundational CVC mastery to multisyllabic word decoding and fluency.

A 5-day reading intervention sequence for 3rd-grade English Language Learners, focusing on the six syllable types using Orton Gillingham routines. Includes direct instruction slides, a comprehensive teacher guide, and a final oral reading fluency assessment.

A comprehensive remedial reading sequence for 'Surviving the Applewhites' that maintains a consistent daily structure while progressing through the novel's plot, themes, and vocabulary.

A phonics-based sequence focusing on vowel teams and long vowel sounds for early elementary students.

A progressive phonics sequence covering r-controlled vowels across primary grades, from foundational single-syllable words to advanced multi-syllabic patterns and spelling rules.

A comprehensive sequence focused on sentence expansion using the Hochman Method (The Writing Revolution). Students move from distinguishing fragments to expanding kernel sentences with 'Who, What, Where, When, Why' and logical conjunctions.

A comprehensive unit on conjunctions where students learn to connect ideas using coordinating and subordinating conjunctions through the metaphor of building and inspecting bridges.

A collection of resources for primary educators to manage parent communication, homework systems, and seasonal literacy encouragement.

A reading comprehension unit focused on mystery stories across multiple grade levels, targeting skills in inferencing, explicit details, context clues, and identifying main ideas.

A comprehensive unit focused on mastering Reading Literature standards through engaging narratives and critical analysis. Students explore complex characters, themes, and figurative language in high-interest texts.