A comprehensive 10-week academic vocabulary program for 6th grade students, themed as a 'Linguistic Lab' where students analyze and master essential Tier 2 words.
A spelling program for 6th graders focusing on high-frequency Fry words to build reading and writing fluency.
A grammar unit focused on punctuation mastery and sentence structure for middle school students.
A 2-day narrative writing workshop where students develop a survival story based on being lost in the woods at dusk. Includes visual prompts, graphic organizers, and scaffolded writing tools.
A comprehensive novel study for Gary Paulsen's Hatchet, focusing on Brian Robeson's survival journey. This sequence covers the entire book through five logical chapter groupings, providing recall and analysis questions to deepen student understanding of character development and survival themes.
A 5-part series focusing on high-frequency Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes using a "word hacking" theme to help students decode academic vocabulary.
A 10-part series on Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes, designed as 20-minute mini-lessons using a 'Linguistic Laboratory' theme. Students build word trees to visualize how word parts combine to create meaning.
A 2-day introductory unit on literary themes for sixth-grade students. This sequence helps students distinguish between topic and theme, identify universal themes, and analyze how authors develop these messages through characters and plot.
A comprehensive unit for Carl Hiaasen's Hoot, featuring chapter-by-chapter comprehension quizzes, teacher keys, and interactive slide decks.
A comprehensive vocabulary unit designed for upper elementary and middle school students to master academic vocabulary through themed blueprints and structural linguistics.
A comprehensive series of spelling and vocabulary worksheets for 4th-grade students, focusing on Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes through fill-in-the-blank exercises.
A sequence of exemplar presentations on Hermes designed to demonstrate high-achieving (A) and low-achieving (D) student work based on specific CCSS-aligned rubric criteria.
A collection of reading passages and analysis worksheets focusing on pairs of figurative language, designed to help students identify and interpret literary devices through engaging narratives.
A comprehensive exploration of figurative language through poetry and prose, focusing on identifying and creating vivid imagery using similes, metaphors, personification, and more.
A comprehensive unit on figurative language, taking students from basic comparisons like similes and metaphors to complex devices like oxymorons and symbolism. Students act as 'Language Scientists' in a literary lab to synthesize and analyze text.
A dual-unit intervention sequence for 6th grade Tier 2 decoding. Unit 1 focuses on Morphology (Lessons 1-15). Unit 2 focuses on Syllable Types and Division Patterns (Lessons 16-30) through an architectural blueprint theme.