Curriculum Samples and Teaching Resources
Fact and Opinion Curriculum Outline
Audience: second grade
Subject: ELA
Skill: Writing
Overview: This curriculum map outlines the milestones and final goal for a second-grade writing standard. It highlights the prior knowledge, activities, and success measures needed to support this standard. It was designed to be implemented using resources from an educational technology company.
My role: Research and development
Vocabulary Explicit Instruction - Emergent Bilinguals
Audience: K-2nd educators
Subject: ELA
Skill: Vocabulary
Overview: This resource was developed to support educators of emergent bilinguals. It contains research supporting best practices, along with practical tools and resources to be used in the classroom.
My role: Research and development
Project Based Learning Unit: My Classroom and I
Audience: kindergarten
Subject: Social Studies, ELA
Overview: This unit of learning was co-developed by my kindergarten team and I using project-based learning as the framework.
My role: Research, development, curriculum mapping and writing
Personal Narrative Mini-Unit
Audience: second grade
Subject: ELA
Overview: I originally developed this personal narrative writing unit as part of a curriculum for the second-grade team at my school. I later expanded it and developed for CanopyEd, a K-12 learning LMS.
My role: Curriculum mapping and writing
Informal Dyslexia Screener
Audience: kindergarten reading teachers
Subject: early literacy
Overview: I developed this tool as part of the coursework for my dyslexia endorsement. I later expanded it to be used across the grade level and then published to Teachers Pay Teachers to reach a wider audience. It has been adjusted over the years as I have received feedback on how to improve it.
My role: Research, development