An 8-week deep dive into Kafka's Metamorphosis for special education students, focusing on abstract thinking, social value, and the human condition through high-engagement activities and visual organizers.

A series of activities focused on morphological awareness, teaching students to 'unpack' words by identifying prefixes, roots, and suffixes to determine meaning.

A series of five 17-minute high-intensity revising and editing missions designed to prepare English I students for the STAAR EOC. Each mission focuses on a high-leverage skill through a tactical "special ops" theme.

A series of high-school level vocabulary lessons designed for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students, emphasizing visual literacy, ASL connections, and academic integration.

A 4-day intensive study of a complex historical text focused on Author's Purpose and Craft, specifically designed for English 1 and 2 STAAR EOC preparation. Students analyze diction, imagery, syntax, and rhetorical devices within a 1200-Lexile historical narrative.

A comprehensive intervention program designed for high school students to master summarization across RLA and Social Studies. The sequence focuses on identifying main ideas, using signal words, and distinguishing between key and supporting details through discipline-specific texts.

A series of competitive reading challenges designed to boost fluency, decoding skills, and vocabulary acquisition for upper elementary students.

A unit exploring Black history, culture, and the Civil Rights Movement through various literary and informational lenses to build critical reading and writing skills.

A 9th-grade English RLA unit exploring the physical and emotional intersection of love and pain through scientific analysis and poetic metaphor. Students synthesize Eric Jaffe's 'Why Love Literally Hurts' with Carol Ann Duffy's poem 'Valentine' to craft argumentative synthesis correspondence.

A 9th-grade English RLA unit exploring the physical and emotional intersection of love and pain through scientific analysis and poetic metaphor. Students synthesize Eric Jaffe's 'Why Love Literally Hurts' with Carol Ann Duffy's poem 'Valentine' to craft argumentative synthesis correspondence.

A comprehensive unit on mixed conditionals where students explore hypothetical scenarios involving past actions with present consequences and permanent states with past outcomes, all set within a 'multiverse' theme.

A series of lessons focused on mastering the art of persuasion and argumentative writing, from building claims to defending them against opposition.

A specialized spelling sequence for middle school students, focusing on complex phonetic patterns and their practical application in reading and writing. The sequence uses a 'Blueprint' theme to treat word construction as structural engineering.

A series of lessons focused on mastering argumentative writing through immersive, game-based activities and role-playing scenarios.

A two-day exploration of Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven', analyzing poetic craft, gothic elements, and the emotional descent of the narrator through creative performance tasks and analytical writing.

A comprehensive study of 'The Last Kids on Earth and the Nightmare King', tracking Jack's journey through friendship, fear, and the mystery of the cosmic entity Ghazt.

A high-intensity two-day preparation program for the TSIA2 ELAR exam, focusing on reading comprehension, sentence structure, grammar, and essay writing through hands-on station activities.

A comprehensive year-long intervention sequence for 8th-grade literacy, focusing on STAR 360 and OSAS benchmark skills. The sequence follows a 3-day weekly instructional cycle (Instruction, Practice, Application) to supplement 2 days of choice reading.

A comprehensive book club unit for Natalie Babbitt's *Tuck Everlasting*, exploring themes of immortality, nature's cycles, and moral choices through guided discussion, vocabulary expansion, and project-based learning.

A comprehensive 4-part review series designed to prepare 8th-grade students for the NY ELA Interim Assessment. Each session focuses on specific high-leverage standards and text analysis skills using authentic assessment passages.

A 6-session intervention sequence designed for small groups of students below grade level. This sequence uses a 'Building Blocks' metaphor to teach structured paragraph writing, starting with topic sentences and moving through evidence, explanation, and conclusions, progressively reducing scaffolding to build independence.

A 4-week small-group intervention program focused on mastering inference and context clues. Using a 'Detective/Evidence' theme, students learn to move beyond guessing by citing specific textual evidence and identifying five types of context clues (Definition, Synonym, Antonym, Example, Contrast).

A middle school ELA unit exploring how authors use word choice, sentence structure, and personal history to craft unique voices and distinct perspectives. Students analyze contemporary literature and informational texts to understand the relationship between identity and narrative.

A three-lesson unit for grades 6-8 exploring authorial voice, identity, and perspective through contemporary literature and paired informational texts. Students analyze excerpts from diverse authors like Sandra Cisneros and Jason Reynolds to understand how language shapes narrative personality.

A comprehensive Earth Day lesson for 9th-10th grade ELs based on The Lorax, focusing on TELPAS domains: listening, speaking, reading, and writing through sensory language.

A 2-day lesson sequence focused on analyzing key ideas and details in a historical informational text about the Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, featuring STAAR-aligned assessment and graphic organizers.