A 2-day narrative writing workshop where students develop a survival story based on being lost in the woods at dusk. Includes visual prompts, graphic organizers, and scaffolded writing tools.
A comprehensive 10-week academic vocabulary program for 6th grade students, themed as a 'Linguistic Lab' where students analyze and master essential Tier 2 words.
A comprehensive test prep series that turns students into 'Info Investigators' to master main idea, text features, and evidence-based reading.
A comprehensive unit on mastering the sequence text structure for 4th-grade students, focusing on both fiction and nonfiction texts using a time-traveler theme.
A comprehensive novel study for Gary Paulsen's Hatchet, focusing on Brian Robeson's survival journey. This sequence covers the entire book through five logical chapter groupings, providing recall and analysis questions to deepen student understanding of character development and survival themes.
A series of advanced middle school language arts lessons focusing on sentence architecture, precision, and stylistic control.
A foundational literacy unit focused on phonemic awareness and phonics skills for Wilson Reading Step 1.3, covering CVC word patterns.
An 8-week poetry unit designed specifically for 8th-grade students reading at a 2nd-grade level. The curriculum focuses on building confidence, understanding figurative language, and exploring themes through high-interest, low-readability (Hi-Lo) poems and activities.
A 5-part series focusing on high-frequency Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes using a "word hacking" theme to help students decode academic vocabulary.
A 10-part series on Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes, designed as 20-minute mini-lessons using a 'Linguistic Laboratory' theme. Students build word trees to visualize how word parts combine to create meaning.
A 2-day introductory unit on literary themes for sixth-grade students. This sequence helps students distinguish between topic and theme, identify universal themes, and analyze how authors develop these messages through characters and plot.
A comprehensive unit for Carl Hiaasen's Hoot, featuring chapter-by-chapter comprehension quizzes, teacher keys, and interactive slide decks.
A comprehensive 3rd-grade literacy unit themed around a secret detective agency. Students build foundational skills like sight word recognition and transition into high-stakes state test preparation through engaging, investigative missions.
A comprehensive 5-day phonics curriculum for grades K-3 using a detective agency theme. Students progress from sound sleuths to master linguists, uncovering the secrets of CVC words, blends, digraphs, silent e, vowel teams, and multi-syllabic words through investigative play and structured practice.
A collection of reading support materials designed for WIDA Level 2 eighth-grade students reading Lord of the Flies, focusing on plot comprehension and symbolic analysis.
A series of five "Do Now" slide decks for Grade 4 RLA, focusing on revising and editing skills aligned with TEKS 4.11. Each deck provides quick, timed practice sessions with original passages and multiple-choice questions.
A comprehensive collection of practice materials for the 'Within Word Pattern' stage of word study, featuring sentence completion and word search activities for sorts 13 through 50.
A comprehensive collection of 56 word study sorts for 4th-grade students, covering everything from basic vowel patterns and inflected endings to advanced syllable junctures, prefixes, and suffixes.
A comprehensive vocabulary unit designed for upper elementary and middle school students to master academic vocabulary through themed blueprints and structural linguistics.
A comprehensive series of spelling and vocabulary worksheets for 4th-grade students, focusing on Greek and Latin roots, prefixes, and suffixes through fill-in-the-blank exercises.
A vocabulary sequence focusing on context clue strategies to help 3rd-4th grade students decode unfamiliar words.
A sequence of exemplar presentations on Hermes designed to demonstrate high-achieving (A) and low-achieving (D) student work based on specific CCSS-aligned rubric criteria.
A comprehensive set of decodable fluency passages across grade levels, focusing on nature, wildlife, and ecosystems to build reading stamina and accuracy.
A series of lessons focused on developing reading comprehension through mystery stories, with tiered assignments for different grade levels.