Make Room For Real Life
Work with mixed readiness, interrupted schedules, and students returning after an absence.
Classroom Resources
Find Tools For Your Next Lesson
Start with the free anchor texts in The Rhetoric Room, or explore complete close reading units, writing frameworks, and assessments. Choose the resources that fit your students and the work ahead.
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Original Anchor TextsOriginal Texts For Close Reading
Close Reading UnitsModel Discuss Analyze And Write
Teacher Ready SupportScaffolds Assessments And Clear Lesson Sequences
Free Anchor Texts And Complete Units Available
The Core Teaching Collection
Real Systems For Real Teaching Days
The Field Guide and four Companion Units form our core teaching collection, created by educator Reeshemah Moore.
Created for secondary ELA teachers in general education, inclusion, and special education classrooms
5 Day PlanReady
Launch → Study → Create → Explain → Defend
Teacher Script
“Here’s the move today: name it, notice it, prove it.”
Catch Up Pathway
- ✓ Quick context
- ✓ Core concept
- ✓ Meaningful product
4Complete companion units
45Purposeful lessons per unit
9–12Flexible secondary ELA use
1System teachers can sustain
Built By An Educator
Practical systems shaped by the daily decisions of secondary ELA teaching.
Prepare With A Clear Plan
Use teacher scripts, Ready Boards, and student materials to make preparation more manageable.
Start Here
The Foundation
Before The School Year Gets Messy
Routines Recovery and Real Systems for Secondary ELA Teachers is the field guide behind the series. It helps teachers establish a clear board, predictable openings, meaningful catch-up work, manageable collection systems, and classroom routines that hold up as the school year gets busy
- Make the board the anchor
- Protect instructional time
- Create honest recovery routes
- Build systems students can use independently
Field Guide Overview
Before The School Year Gets Messy
Routines, Recovery, And Real Systems For Secondary ELA Teachers
Board SystemWhat How Product
Minimum Meaningful PathwayReenter The Learning
The Four Companion Units
The Four-Unit ELA Companion Series
Each book can stand alone or work as part of a coherent year. Every unit includes lesson sequences, teacher language, student-facing tools, differentiation, assessment alignment, and portfolio development
A 45-Day ELA
Companion Unit
Identity, Culture, and Story
Book 1
Story Voice Identity
A Unit On Identity Culture And Story
Personal narrative, identity, voice, and authentic audience—organized into a complete 45-day learning arc
A 45-Day ELA
Companion Unit
Rhetoric, Justice, and Authority
Book 2
Rhetoric Evidence Argument
A Unit On Rhetoric Justice And Authority
Civil liberties, rhetorical choices, credibility, and public argument with clear pathways from close reading to application
A 45-Day ELA
Companion Unit
Media, Synthesis, and Public Knowledge
Book 3
Media Synthesis Research
A Unit On Media Synthesis And Public Knowledge
Credibility, source relationships, synthesis, and the Public Problem Brief—built for responsible participation in public knowledge
A 45-Day ELA
Companion Unit
Craft, Style, and Portfolio Defense
Book 4
Craft Revision Defense
A Unit On Craft Style And Portfolio Defense
Independent reading, author craft, analytical writing, revision, portfolio assembly, and final defense preparation
What Teachers Receive
A Usable Classroom System
The series is designed around the moments when teachers usually have to invent something on the spot: launching the work, showing students what success looks like, supporting varied readiness, and helping absent students return without restarting the class
Ready Boards
The question, agenda, product, catch-up pathway, and portfolio label—visible in one place
Teacher Moves
Clear launches, transitions, prompts, and acceptable responses to help you prepare and lead the lesson
Student Ready Materials
Copy-ready organizers, models, sentence frames, trackers, rubrics, and reflection tools
Recovery Pathways
Meaningful ways for students to re-enter the work after absences, interruptions, or unfinished tasks
Preparing To Teach
Open the book, understand the instructional move, prepare the student materials, and teach the lesson with a clear plan