A instructional unit focused on the core literacy skills of summarizing, paraphrasing, and synthesizing information for clarity and impact.
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.
A complete third-grade morphology curriculum focusing on prefix and root-word mastery. Through highly engaging, uniform worksheets, cumulative review guides, and complete teacher answer manuals, students build strong spelling and decoding foundations.
A reading and social studies sequence exploring how young people identify community needs and take action. Students practice critical reading skills like finding the main idea and synthesizing key details across real-world student-led initiatives.
A cohesive 5-lesson intervention sequence for high school struggling readers focusing on long vowel teams (ai/ay, ee/ea/ey, oa/ow/oe, ie/igh), contrasting them with silent-e patterns and reinforcing cumulative syllable types.
A seventh-grade ELA project sequence titled 'Adversity Archive' where students research, compare, and present how individuals overcome monumental obstacles using class-read texts and select choice 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 reading comprehension sequence focusing on key reading skills like cause and effect, main idea, and vocabulary context clues through high-interest topics including sports and outer space.
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 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.
