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 cross-curricular, 3-day project-based unit combining science, argumentative writing, and graphic design. Students investigate the ecological impacts of light pollution, write a data-driven persuasive proposal, and design a community awareness campaign poster.
An intervention sequence designed to help struggling second-grade students master irregular high-frequency words ('Heart Words') through high-repetition game-based practice at school and home.
A comprehensive 5-week progress monitoring sequence for tracking decoding and encoding skills of long o (oa, oe) and long i (ie) vowel teams using equivalent, parallel forms.
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 5-day educational sequence covering CCSS RL.5.3 standard concepts using the story 'A New Jacket'. Students progress from basic character analysis to comparative matrices, setting impacts, thematic connections, and a final cumulative review.
A comprehensive adult literacy training framework designed for rapid, low-prep implementation. This program focuses on functional reading, writing, and word-building skills for adults who are mastering foundational literacy metrics.
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.
A multi-genre writing unit focused on structural writing templates for elementary and middle school students. The unit covers Informational, Compare & Contrast, and Persuasive/Opinion writing, utilizing highly structured 3-paragraph outlines, visual icons, sentence starters, and word banks.
A comprehensive three-day unit for high school freshmen to master identifying and analyzing central ideas and supporting details in pop culture editorials and contemporary science journalism.
A 3-day targeted intervention sequence 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).