Curriculum Writing

Tracie's areas of expertise include developing resources and curriculum for teachers using instructional strategies to meet a variety of student needs and learning styles. She also writes student edition (SE) and teacher edition (TE) lessons and activities in reading comprehension, vocabulary, writing and grammar, listening and speaking skills, and spelling for students reading on and below grade level, including ESL students. Clients include basal and supplementary publishers and developers.

Her recent projects include:

• Writing TE units (100 pages) for literature-based middle school language arts program, including instruction in reading comprehension, critical thinking skills, vocabulary, writing, and grammar.
• Writing a teacher resource book on blogging in the classroom.
• Writing TE units (36 pages) for middle school ELL reading intervention program.
• Writing teacher and student activities for inquiry-based middle school nonfiction reading program including instruction in genre, comprehension skills and strategies, vocabulary, and research/inquiry.
• Writing TE for Grade 2 Writing program to accompany a balanced reading program.