A game-based sequence focused on refining topic sentences and thesis statements to prevent logic 'drift' and enhance precision through diagnostic activities and vocabulary upgrades.
An 8-week deep dive into Kafka's Metamorphosis for special education students, focusing on abstract thinking, social value, and the human condition through high-engagement activities and visual organizers.
A series of activities focused on morphological awareness, teaching students to 'unpack' words by identifying prefixes, roots, and suffixes to determine meaning.
A series of five 17-minute high-intensity revising and editing missions designed to prepare English I students for the STAAR EOC. Each mission focuses on a high-leverage skill through a tactical "special ops" theme.
A series of high-school level vocabulary lessons designed for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students, emphasizing visual literacy, ASL connections, and academic integration.
A 4-day intensive study of a complex historical text focused on Author's Purpose and Craft, specifically designed for English 1 and 2 STAAR EOC preparation. Students analyze diction, imagery, syntax, and rhetorical devices within a 1200-Lexile historical narrative.
A comprehensive intervention program designed for high school students to master summarization across RLA and Social Studies. The sequence focuses on identifying main ideas, using signal words, and distinguishing between key and supporting details through discipline-specific texts.
A series of competitive reading challenges designed to boost fluency, decoding skills, and vocabulary acquisition for upper elementary students.
A unit exploring Black history, culture, and the Civil Rights Movement through various literary and informational lenses to build critical reading and writing skills.
A 9th-grade English RLA unit exploring the physical and emotional intersection of love and pain through scientific analysis and poetic metaphor. Students synthesize Eric Jaffe's 'Why Love Literally Hurts' with Carol Ann Duffy's poem 'Valentine' to craft argumentative synthesis correspondence.