You're living with the Sunday scaries, all while feeling like you have nothing to show for the work you're putting in each week.

• You have felt like your eyeballs have about fallen out on Sunday nights while searching the entire internet for engaging lessons that will get results.
• You might be like I was in my first year, and have been surviving week by week, even though you want your ELA content to all work together.
• Many nights spent pouring over stacks of papers to assess your student's work and provide meaningful feedback... only to watch them throw it in the trash when you hand it back. 
• You are utilizing ELA websites or worksheets that you hope will have some osmosis effect... only to have them start clicking through the lessons after a couple of weeks.  

These exclusive training videos will guide you through the following:

• Creating an entire year of pacing and planning
• Developing a daily class period structure for maximum impact
• Selecting mentor text novel studies that fit with your teaching style or district's curriculum.
• A complete framework for teaching ALL the ELA standards no matter how long your class periods are. 

Not only will you get these seven exclusive training videos, you'll also get an implementation video for each unit included in the curriculum. 

The six reading units were thoughtfully designed for teachers to take students through all the ELA standards.

• Each day, students are introduced to a concept, the teacher models the concept application immediately with their mentor text, and then students are asked to think beyond the text with their own novels and responses or discussions.
• Students aren't just checking off a list of concepts... they are digging deeper into each one. 
• Students will learn and apply literature, nonfiction, poetry, and drama reading concepts as outlined in the standards. 

Ready to have middle school ELA students who produce well-developed narratives, thoughtful and complete analytical essays, and articulate expository pieces?

• The middle school ELA writing units are broken down for teachers and students alike.
• No more looking for examples or piecing together a bunch of writing lessons.
• Each unit is scaffolded and builds up in difficulty each day in order to support students' learning to create masterful final essays. 
• The narrative, literary analysis, research, argumentative, and rhetorical analysis units are included.

My Mentor Sentences Grammar Curriculum Units are my most popular resources... and it's for good reason. 

• Each bundle will engage your students in their grammar instruction.
• Students will actually apply it to their writing.
• Weekly sentences pulled from popular middle grade and young adult novels.
• They are designed so students develop a conceptual understanding of the grammar skills they need to be successful readers and writers.
• This is not a worksheet and test grammar curriculum. This is an authentic grammar curriculum that will have students immediately apply their learning. 

What teacher doesn't want to be able to pick their texts?

• We have mapped out each grade level's curriculum and mentor text novel studies if you need that support to start.
• We also know that some of you want flexibility with the texts you're reading with students. We've factored that in as well.
• Each core reading unit comes with 3-5 choices of mentor text novel studies within that genre set and YOU get to pick!
• Over 35 novel studies to choose from. 

• Curriculum Program Implementation and Training Videos + Resources ($97 Value)

• Implementation Videos for All Included Units ($197 Value)

• 6 Reading Units: Literature + Realistic Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama, Dystopian Book Clubs, and Historical Fiction Book Clubs ($180 Value)

• 5 Writing Units: Narrative, Literary Analysis, Argumentative, Rhetorical Analysis + Research Writing ($150 Value)

• 4 Quarters of Mentor Sentences Grammar Units: Entire Year of the Volume One Mentor Sentences.  ($100 Value)

• 6 Novel Study Coupons so YOU can pick your common mentor text novel studies ($97 Value)

• BONUS: Access to an Exclusive and Private Member’s Only Facebook Community ($99 Value)

• BONUS: Immediate access to the Bonus Resource Room. ($89 Value)

• BONUS: Immediate Access to 4 Signature Mini-Workshops: Purposeful Planning, Successful Assessment, Bountiful Book Clubs, and Dynamic Discussions. ($208 Value)

I'm Martina!

My worst year of teaching ended up being the best thing that ever happened to me... 

In my most recent years of teaching middle school ELA, my students increased their volume of writing from a few sentences each day to almost two pages daily.

Teir reading volume went from basically nothing to finishing multiple novels during each 3-4 week unit.

Their ELA proficiency test scores increased from 10% to 80% in my first two years of teaching.

Despite that considerable increase in their reading and writing volume quantity and quality, I never brought any grading home.

But it wasn’t always this way.

Prior to teaching seventh and eighth-grade ELA, I had been in a sixth-grade ELA position that just about had me leave teaching altogether.

My sixth-grade students hated reading, produced very little writing, and had minimal stamina or motivation during any of our district and state tests.

I was given a scripted curriculum to "improve student test scores," and it was making my students HATE reading and writing more than before.

I was required to be part of a new teacher training cohort that had to submit lesson plans and would also "improve" and support my teaching when it was a time-suck that added even more work to my already full plate.

I now had triple the amount of students (and grading) than I'd ever experienced. My new school's plan and prep time were half what I had in my previous school.

We were all bored, I was burnt out by October, and my classroom management was a survival-mode strategy.

I kept wishing that I had a magical solution that would give me helpful support and teaching resources that were engaging, flexible, practical, and helped my students improve.

...And I started creating the resources found in the Masterful Mentor Texts Curriculum Program. 

It has everything I wished I'd had during that tough year.

Some of it was even created during that first year, as I learned first-hand what types of resources, units, and support middle school ELA teachers really needed.

• Curriculum Program Implementation and Training Videos + Resources ($97 Value)

• Implementation Videos for All Included Units ($197 Value)

• 6 Reading Units: Literature + Realistic Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama, Dystopian Book Clubs, and Historical Fiction Book Clubs ($180 Value)

• 5 Writing Units: Narrative, Literary Analysis, Argumentative, and  Rhetorical Analysis + Research Writing will be released at the end of 2023. ($150 Value)

• 4 Quarters of Mentor Sentences Grammar Units: Entire Year of the Volume One Mentor Sentences.  ($100 Value)

• 6 Novel Study Coupons so YOU can pick your common mentor text novel studies ($97 Value)

• BONUS: Access to an Exclusive and Private Member’s Only Facebook Community ($99 Value)

• BONUS: Immediate access to the Bonus Resource Room. ($89 Value)

• BONUS: Immediate Access to 4 Signature Mini-Workshops: Purposeful Planning, Successful Assessment, Bountiful Book Clubs, and Dynamic Discussions. ($208 Value)