A comprehensive vocabulary and idiom study sequence covering the first four chapters of five diverse memoirs: Born a Crime, Red Scarf Girl, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, The Distance Between Us, and I Will Always Write Back. This unit focuses on character development, cultural context, and figurative language.

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 book study on S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' designed for HSED adult students in a correctional setting. This unit focuses on character development, social dynamics, and critical reading skills while maintaining high-interest engagement.

A series of ELD lessons focused on academic language and complex sentence structures through the lens of adventure and exploration.

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 high school unit exploring Joseph Campbell's Monomyth theory, tracing the universal pattern from classic literature to modern cinema through the lens of Star Wars.

A deep dive into common Greek and Latin roots to help students decode complex vocabulary and improve reading comprehension through etymological analysis.

A comprehensive 25-day instructional sequence for Grade 6 Unit 1 'Testing Our Limits', focusing on resilience, narrative structure, and character development through diverse literary and informational texts.

A comprehensive 3.5-week unit on Gene Luen Yang's 'American Born Chinese', focusing on Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER), graphic novel image analysis, and thematic development, culminating in a Cultural Identity Project.