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Our mission is to empower students to become skilled readers, writers, and critical thinkers across all subject areas by integrating essential literacy skills into meaningful content learning.
We believe that literacy is not confined to English class—it is the foundation for understanding and communicating in every discipline. Through our curriculum, students develop the ability to:
Identify and utilize concrete examples to support their thinking and strengthen their arguments across all subjects.
Connect research and details to main ideas, building bridges between specific evidence and broader concepts.
Write effectively and fluidly in any situation, adapting their voice and style to meet the demands of different disciplines and audiences.
Apply critical reading skills—including inference, identifying main ideas, analyzing text structure, and evaluating sources—to unlock meaning in science texts, historical documents, mathematical problems, and beyond.
Build vocabulary in meaningful ways by encountering and using academic and domain-specific terms within rich contexts, connecting new words to prior knowledge and real-world applications.
Develop analysis skills through close reading of complex texts, learning to examine language, structure, and meaning with precision and depth across all disciplines
Our approach recognizes that when students learn to read like historians, write like scientists, and think like researchers, they don't just master content—they master the tools for lifelong learning. By embedding literacy instruction within authentic, engaging content from history, science, social studies, and other disciplines, we help students see reading and writing not as separate subjects, but as powerful instruments for exploring and understanding their world.
Through concrete examples, meaningful connections, and purposeful practice, we prepare students to communicate with confidence and think with clarity in any academic or professional context they encounter.
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Now Prove It Are Bionic Superhuman on the Horizon Main Idea, Supporting Details
Students can identify main ideas… but can they prove them? The Now, Prove It series is built to strengthen evidence-based reasoning—giving students targeted practice in linking claims to the right support and explaining their thinking clearly. It’s the perfect bridge between reading comprehension and critical thinking. Now Prove It! transforms one of the most essential literacy skills— supporting a claim with evidence—into an interactive, logic-based matching activity that students actually
6th - 12th
Close Reading, ELA Test Prep, Writing
Anchor Chart 4 Analyzing Setting + Archetype Settings / Middle & High School
Setting is more than just where and when a story happens — it’s the foundation that shapes mood, conflict, theme, and characterization. With this anchor chart set, students will move beyond basic location details and learn to uncover the deeper role setting plays in literature with prompts and descriptions of the ways authors use setting. What’s Included: ✅ Core Anchor Chart – breaks setting into time, place, and atmosphere ✅ Why Setting Matters – shows how setting influences plot, charac
7th - 12th, Higher Education
Close Reading, ELA Test Prep, Reading Strategies
Now Prove It Rylant Stray Inference Practice + WRITING Evidence-Based Activity
The Problem:Students often make surface-level inferences or select quotes without fully understanding how evidence supports meaning. Class discussions stall, written responses lack precision, and students struggle to articulate the why behind their thinking. The Solution:Now, Prove It! teaches students to think critically about evidence by evaluating and matching carefully selected quotes to specific inference statements—then proving why the match works. Students learn to:Analyze evidence beyon
5th - 8th
Close Reading, Short Stories, Writing
Treasure of Lemon Brown Activities Inference Authors Craft Context Clues Reading
Now, Analyze It! The Treasure of Lemon Brown Reading Skills PackInference • Author’s Craft • Context Clues • SOL Reading PracticeStudents often read The Treasure of Lemon Brown but struggle to move beyond basic comprehension. They can retell what happened, but when asked to infer, analyze author’s craft, or determine meaning through context, many fall back on guessing or summary. This resource was designed to build those deeper reading skills through focused, short practice activities.Using car
6th - 10th
Close Reading, ELA Test Prep, Short Stories
Also included in: Bundle 1 Treasure of Lemon Brown Plot + Theme Tracker + Now, Analyze It!
Now Prove It The Paper Menagerie Inference + Literary Analysis + WRITING
The Problem:Students often make surface-level inferences or select quotes without fully understanding how evidence supports meaning. Class discussions stall, written responses lack precision, and students struggle to articulate the why behind their thinking. The Solution:Now, Prove It! teaches students to think critically about evidence by evaluating and matching carefully selected quotes to specific inference statements—then proving why the match works. Students learn to:Analyze evidence beyon
9th - 12th
ELA Test Prep, Short Stories, Writing
The Veldt Evidence Based Inference Practice Activity + WRITING CER Now Prove It
The Problem:Students often make surface-level inferences or select quotes without fully understanding how evidence supports meaning. Class discussions stall, written responses lack precision, and students struggle to articulate the why behind their thinking. The Solution:Now, Prove It! teaches students to think critically about evidence by evaluating and matching carefully selected quotes to specific inference statements—then proving why the match works. Students learn to:Analyze evidence beyon
8th - 12th, Higher Education
ELA Test Prep, Short Stories, Writing
Evidence-Based Inference Practice + WRITING ADD ON Now Prove It Raymond's Run
The Problem:Students often make surface-level inferences or select quotes without fully understanding how evidence supports meaning. Class discussions stall, written responses lack precision, and students struggle to articulate the why behind their thinking. The Solution:Now, Prove It! teaches students to think critically about evidence by evaluating and matching carefully selected quotes to specific inference statements—then proving why the match works. Students learn to:Analyze evidence beyon
5th - 9th
Science of Reading, Short Stories, Writing
Now Prove It Harrison Bergeron Inference Practice Activity + WRITING Add On
The Problem:Students often make surface-level inferences or select quotes without fully understanding how evidence supports meaning. Class discussions stall, written responses lack precision, and students struggle to articulate the why behind their thinking. The Solution:Now, Prove It! teaches students to think critically about evidence by evaluating and matching carefully selected quotes to specific inference statements—then proving why the match works. Students learn to:Analyze evidence beyon
8th - 12th, Higher Education
ELA Test Prep, Science of Reading, Short Stories
The Marble Champ Plot Diagram+Theme Tracker Writing Response Activity Grade 5678
ProblemDoes teaching plot structure ever feel like you’re talking at students instead of engaging them? You define “inciting incident.” You explain “falling action.” They copy notes… and then still struggle to explain what the story is actually about. The issue isn’t your teaching. It’s that most plot activities stop at labeling. Students memorize terms without ever thinking through how those parts impact the narrative, conflict, characterization, and, most importantly, theme. The SolutionThis
5th - 8th
Close Reading, Short Stories, Writing
Paired Nonfiction Passage + Activities Scarlet Ibis Story Background Builder
Struggling to find meaningful nonfiction that actually connects to the literature you’re teaching? This resource is designed to do more than add an extra reading. Instead, it intentionally builds the background knowledge, reading skills, and connections students need to fully understand and analyze fiction. Students begin with a high-interest nonfiction passage that directly pairs with your anchor text. In the Now, Explore It article section, students build essential context while practicing k
8th - 12th
Close Reading, ELA Test Prep, Informational Text
Paired Nonfiction Passage Blues Music Background + Treasure of Lemon Brown
Struggling to find meaningful nonfiction that actually connects to the literature you’re teaching? The "Two Roads, One Song: The Surprising Connection Between Blues and Country Music" is perfect for building background and practicing non-fiction reading skills. This resource is designed to do more than add an extra reading. Instead, it intentionally builds the background knowledge, reading skills, and connections students need to fully understand and analyze fiction. Students begin with a high-i
6th - 10th
ELA Test Prep, Informational Text, Reading Strategies
Claim & Evidence Activity Now, Prove It! Loss & Grief Writing RACE Grade 8 9 10
Now, Prove It! + Now, Explain It !Loss & Grief Edition for "O Captain, My Captain"A Two-Part System for Evidence-Based Thinking, Writing & Emotional LiteracyStudents often encounter texts that explore loss, grief, and emotional response—but they struggle to articulate how those emotions work, how they change over time, or how authors reveal them through evidence. The Now, Prove It! + Now, Explain It! Loss & Grief Edition helps students move beyond surface-level responses by teaching them how t
7th - 11th
ELA Test Prep, Writing
Also included in: O Captain! My Captain! Evidence Matching, Writing, & Escape Room Bundle
Argument Writing Activity Practice RACE CRE Now, Rank It! Spider-Man
Now, Rank It! Prove the Claim — Spider-Man Media Example Students are often told to “use evidence and explain it.” But many struggle to do that effectively. They summarize instead of analyze, select details that don’t actually support the claim, or restate the evidence without explaining how it proves the idea. This resource helps students see the difference between strong analysis and weak responses by practicing evidence selection, evaluating model responses, and applying the skill themselve
6th - 10th
Writing
Now Rank It Text Evidence Practice Treasure of Lemon Brown RACE CER Writing
Build Evidence-Based Thinking with Small, Powerful PracticeNow, Rank It! Prove the Claim — “The Treasure of Lemon Brown”Students are often told to “use evidence and explain it.” But many struggle to do that effectively. They summarize instead of analyze, select details that don’t actually support the claim, or restate the evidence without explaining how it proves the idea. This resource helps students see the difference between strong analysis and weak responses by practicing evidence selectio
6th - 10th
ELA Test Prep, Short Stories, Writing
Now Prove It Treasure of Lemon Brown Prove Inference Claims Practice Activity
The Problem:Students often make surface-level inferences or select quotes without fully understanding how evidence supports meaning. Class discussions stall, written responses lack precision, and students struggle to articulate the why behind their thinking. The Solution:Now, Prove It! teaches students to think critically about evidence by evaluating and matching carefully selected quotes to specific inference statements—then proving why the match works. In this version, students analyze Walte
6th - 10th
Close Reading, ELA Test Prep, Short Stories
Now Prove It: Jory John Humble Pie Key Idea+Detail & Theme+Writing Grades 3 4 5
Struggling to teach theme without confusion, blank stares, or surface-level answers?If your students can retell the story but freeze when asked “What’s the theme?”, you’re not alone. Theme is one of the most abstract—and frustrating—ELA skills to teach in upper elementary. Students often confuse it with topic, key ideas, or details, and teachers are left reteaching the same concepts over and over. Now, Prove It: Picture Book Edition was designed to solve that exact problem. This scaffolded, ste
2nd - 6th
ELA Test Prep, Reading, Writing
Plot Diagram + Theme Analysis Practice Activity The Treasure of Lemon Brown
ProblemDoes teaching plot structure ever feel like you’re talking at students instead of engaging them? You define “inciting incident.” You explain “falling action.” They copy notes… and then still struggle to explain what the story is actually about. The issue isn’t your teaching. It’s that most plot activities stop at labeling. Students memorize terms without ever thinking through how those parts impact the narrative, conflict, characterization, and, most importantly, theme. The SolutionThis
6th - 12th
ELA Test Prep, Reading Strategies, Short Stories
Also included in: Bundle 1 Treasure of Lemon Brown Plot + Theme Tracker + Now, Analyze It!
Master the Writing Process Anchor Chart Handout Set
This all-in-one 25 page writing handout collection is your go-to resource for teaching the entire writing process— from brainstorming to polishing a final draft. Designed with clarity, structure, and student success in mind, these printable handouts walk students step-by-step through prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and crafting strong introductions, conclusions, and body paragraphs. What’s Inside: Prewriting Tools & StrategiesFreewriting, mapping, listing, outlining, graphic organizers
7th - 12th, Higher Education
Writing, Writing-Essays, Writing-Expository
CCSS, TEKS, VA SOL
W.8.1
, W.8.1d
, W.8.1e
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Now Prove It: Couch Potato Key Idea Supporting Details Theme Writing Grade 3 4 5
Struggling to teach theme without confusion, blank stares, or surface-level answers?If your students can retell the story but freeze when asked “What’s the theme?”, you’re not alone. Theme is one of the most abstract—and frustrating—ELA skills to teach in upper elementary. Students often confuse it with topic, key ideas, or details, and teachers are left reteaching the same concepts over and over. Now, Prove It: Picture Book Edition was designed to solve that exact problem. This scaffolded, ste
2nd - 6th
Reading Strategies, Science of Reading, Writing
Now, Prove It The Good Egg Key Idea Supporting Details & Theme Grades 2 3 4
Struggling to teach theme without confusion, blank stares, or surface-level answers?If your students can retell the story but freeze when asked “What’s the theme?”, you’re not alone. Theme is one of the most abstract—and frustrating—ELA skills to teach in upper elementary. Students often confuse it with topic, key ideas, or details, and teachers are left reteaching the same concepts over and over. Now, Prove It: Picture Book Edition was designed to solve that exact problem. This scaffolded, ste
2nd - 6th
Close Reading, ELA Test Prep, Writing
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About the store
Experience
Our mission is to empower students to become skilled readers, writers, and critical thinkers across all subject areas by integrating essential literacy skills into meaningful content learning.
We believe that literacy is not confined to English class—it is the foundation for understanding and communicating in every discipline. Through our curriculum, students develop the ability to:
Identify and utilize concrete examples to support their thinking and strengthen their arguments across all subjects.
Connect research and details to main ideas, building bridges between specific evidence and broader concepts.
Write effectively and fluidly in any situation, adapting their voice and style to meet the demands of different disciplines and audiences.
Apply critical reading skills—including inference, identifying main ideas, analyzing text structure, and evaluating sources—to unlock meaning in science texts, historical documents, mathematical problems, and beyond.
Build vocabulary in meaningful ways by encountering and using academic and domain-specific terms within rich contexts, connecting new words to prior knowledge and real-world applications.
Develop analysis skills through close reading of complex texts, learning to examine language, structure, and meaning with precision and depth across all disciplines
Our approach recognizes that when students learn to read like historians, write like scientists, and think like researchers, they don't just master content—they master the tools for lifelong learning. By embedding literacy instruction within authentic, engaging content from history, science, social studies, and other disciplines, we help students see reading and writing not as separate subjects, but as powerful instruments for exploring and understanding their world.
Through concrete examples, meaningful connections, and purposeful practice, we prepare students to communicate with confidence and think with clarity in any academic or professional context they encounter.
Teaching style
I believe in teaching that goes beyond worksheets and rote learning. My classroom is built on meaningful literacy—where students read to understand, write to think, and speak to explore ideas. I design resources that help students engage deeply with content, think critically, and communicate clearly across all subject areas.
My own education history
BS in Elementary Education with minor in English
M.ed. in English Education
Additional Graduate work in Children's Literature
Additional biographical information
Began as an elementary teacher. Taught for 15 years in college and early college. Spent 4 years in high school classroom. Currently a middle school teacher.
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