Literacy Investigators Unit

A comprehensive 4-week poetry curriculum designed for students requiring high structure and visual supports. It covers diverse poetry types (Haiku, Color, Acrostic, Couplets, Concrete, Free Verse, and Metaphor/Simile) with scaffolds like word banks, sentence frames, and graphic organizers.

A comprehensive 4-week poetry curriculum designed for students requiring high structure and visual supports. It covers diverse poetry types (Haiku, Color, Acrostic, Couplets, Concrete, Free Verse, and Metaphor/Simile) with scaffolds like word banks, sentence frames, and graphic organizers.

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.

An intensive intervention lesson designed to help struggling readers master main idea identification using hands-on, color-coded highlighting strategies. Students learn to dismantle paragraph structures like blueprint architects, physically separating the 'roof' (main idea) from the 'supporting pillars' (details).

Weekly ELA homework packets focused on high-interest animal adaptations for elementary students (K-5). Each packet contains four nights of structured work: Night 1 (Reading), Night 2 (Vocabulary), Night 3 (Comprehension Activity), and Night 4 (Comprehension Questions), customized with visual icons, sentence frames, and simplified tracking guides for varying reading levels.

A comprehensive, space-themed 4-week Extended School Year (ESY) ELA curriculum designed for middle school students with disabilities (grades 5-8). It features daily scaffolded learning structures, differentiated materials spanning early emergent to early fluent readers, and visual sensory supports that make ELA skill acquisition accessible, engaging, and structured.

A comprehensive Science of Reading-aligned spelling program designed to build orthographic mapping, syllable juncture automaticity, complex vowel team knowledge, morphological awareness, and multisyllabic decoding skills. Includes universal routine kits, teacher instructional guides, and structured student practice sheets.

A spelling and phonics sequence exploring spelling patterns for the soft G /j/ sound, covering initial J, terminal -dge and -ge, and the soft G triggers GE, GI, and GY.

A multi-disciplinary sequence of independent research, literature, and presentation projects designed to build late-elementary student autonomy, critical thinking, and creative communication skills.

A series of lessons designed to master sentence structure through engaging pop culture themes, moving from retro-horror mysteries to technical sentence blueprints.

A comprehensive unit analysis and planning sequence for Unit 6G Beginning Story Writing, enriched for high-ability 5th grade students.

A comprehensive curriculum sequence containing five distinct poetry analysis booklets and teacher guides for sixth-grade novels: Freak the Mighty, Max the Mighty, The Giver, The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963, and The Birchbark House. Each booklet features four custom-written thematic poems and eleven standards-aligned analysis questions.

An engaging ELA narrative writing sequence guiding students through planning, plotting, and drafting imaginative stories.

A multi-week novel study sequence structured around the Hero's Journey framework, featuring five engaging books (The Red Pyramid, Tristan Strong, Hello Universe, Coyote Sunrise, Stella by Starlight). Incorporates creative, gamified, and role-play activities to sustain student engagement and deepen literary analysis.

A creative, comprehensive narrative writing unit for 5th grade that guides students through analyzing character traits, feelings, conflict, plot mountain planning, and drafting.