A professional development series focused on empowering educators with concrete frameworks for teaching complex writing and literacy skills.
A comprehensive 4-week poetry curriculum designed for students requiring high structure and visual supports. It covers diverse poetry types (Haiku, Color, Acrostic, Couplets, Concrete, Free Verse, and Metaphor/Simile) with scaffolds like word banks, sentence frames, and graphic organizers.
A cohesive, beautifully designed collection of reading comprehension worksheets spanning high school grades 9-12. Each single-page worksheet features a high-interest, curriculum-aligned text followed by three standards-aligned multiple-choice questions and two critical short-answer questions.
A comprehensive 15-lesson writing curriculum tailored for middle and high school students with intellectual disabilities. The sequence alternates weekly between personal narratives, evidence-based informational writing, and imagined stories, using heavy visual scaffolding, structured sentence frames, and clear graphic organizers.
A 4-week ELA workbook and instructional sequence themed around outer space exploration. Focuses on letter recognition, sounds, foundational handwriting, and early phonics using SATPIN, the full A-Z, vowels and consonants, and tricky letter pairs.
An intensive intervention lesson 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).
A comprehensive, space-themed 4-week Extended School Year (ESY) ELA curriculum designed for middle school students with disabilities (grades 5-8). It features daily scaffolded learning structures, differentiated materials spanning early emergent to early fluent readers, and visual sensory supports that make ELA skill acquisition accessible, engaging, and structured.
A comprehensive Science of Reading-aligned spelling program designed to build orthographic mapping, syllable juncture automaticity, complex vowel team knowledge, morphological awareness, and multisyllabic decoding skills. Includes universal routine kits, teacher instructional guides, and structured student practice sheets.
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 comprehensive book-club companion unit designed to guide students through the dark alleys of dystopian literature. Through three thematic lessons, students deconstruct propaganda, analyze world-building, track protagonist rebellion, and explore authors' real-world critiques.
A spelling and phonics sequence exploring spelling patterns for the soft G /j/ sound, covering initial J, terminal -dge and -ge, and the soft G triggers GE, GI, and GY.
A multi-disciplinary sequence of independent research, literature, and presentation projects designed to build late-elementary student autonomy, critical thinking, and creative communication skills.
A comprehensive unit analysis and planning sequence for Unit 6G Beginning Story Writing, enriched for high-ability 5th grade students.
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 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.
