Irony and Satire Analysis

A cohesive, beautifully designed collection of reading comprehension worksheets spanning high school grades 9-12. Each single-page worksheet features a high-interest, curriculum-aligned text followed by three standards-aligned multiple-choice questions and two critical short-answer questions.

A comprehensive 15-lesson writing curriculum tailored for middle and high school students with intellectual disabilities. The sequence alternates weekly between personal narratives, evidence-based informational writing, and imagined stories, using heavy visual scaffolding, structured sentence frames, and clear graphic organizers.

A comprehensive book-club companion unit designed to guide students through the dark alleys of dystopian literature. Through three thematic lessons, students deconstruct propaganda, analyze world-building, track protagonist rebellion, and explore authors' real-world critiques.

A cohesive 5-lesson intervention sequence for high school struggling readers focusing on long vowel teams (ai/ay, ee/ea/ey, oa/ow/oe, ie/igh), contrasting them with silent-e patterns and reinforcing cumulative syllable types.

An immersive 9th-grade English Language Arts unit exploring the master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. Students analyze suspense, unreliable narrators, Gothic irony, poetic rhythm, and intense mood development across his most famous works.

A three-day Grade 9 English Language Arts end-of-year reading comprehension warm-up sequence aligned with New York State (NYS) Next Generation ELA Standards. Focuses on central claims, supporting evidence, structural organization, context clues, and paired passage synthesis.

A high school reading intervention sequence introducing and reinforcing r-controlled vowels, beginning with the 'ar' pattern.

An informational research and presentation project-based unit where students assume the role of museum curators. They investigate obscure historical, scientific, or cultural mysteries, synthesize multi-source research, write scholarly exhibition plaques, and deliver a formal Curator Showcase.

A comprehensive high school reading intervention sequence introducing and applying long VCC vowel patterns as exceptions to closed syllable rules, integrated with consonant-le and silent-e review.

A comprehensive five-part poetry analysis sequence that guides students through decoding figurative language, analyzing structure and meter, tracking tone shifts, and exploring thematic and cultural contexts. The sequence culminates in an analytical writing assessment and rubrics.

A comprehensive six-week English Language Arts curriculum for high school freshmen centered on R.J. Palacio's 'Wonder'. This unit analyzes how shifting narration, point of view, and multi-perspective characterization impact reader empathy and character development, culminating in evidence-based thematic essays on kindness and identity.