Tessellation
The integration engine. Input a unit or topic and TEMPOS surfaces the linguistic layers hiding inside it, then assembles them into a tessellated lesson plan where literacy and content reinforce each other.
TEMPOS is an integration tool for all educators, built to weave roots, structure, and meaning into the lessons you are already teaching.
See it work
Type a word. Watch the layers.
Type any word a student might meet in your classroom. TEMPOS breaks it down the way you would — etymology, morphology, phonology, orthography — and suggests one classroom move.
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The history of language lives inside every subject. Writing is how students consolidate math. Etymology and morphology open both. The teachers who integrate their content produce students who can read, write, and reason across disciplines.
The Method
Six interlocking layers. Not a checklist. Not a sequence. A tessellation.
Etymology
A vetted etymology library tied to elementary content standards. Teachers can pull the origin story of any term in their science, math, or social studies unit and see how it connects to other words students already know.
Morphology
Morpheme analysis built for elementary teachers. Drop in vocabulary, get word sums, base and affix breakdowns, and word family extensions ready for matching cards, anchor charts, and student-facing worksheets.
Phonology
Sound and syllable structure tools. Each vocabulary set comes with phonological annotations a teacher can use for read-alouds, pronunciation modeling, and decoding instruction without leaving the unit they are planning.
Orthography
Spelling pattern and visual structure tools. Teachers see why words are spelled the way they are, with patterns grouped so students can transfer the logic to new words instead of memorizing in isolation.
Steam
Cross-curricular mapping across Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math. Every linguistic layer is anchored to subject-area standards, so a science unit on ecosystems also delivers morphology, etymology, and writing practice.
Who it’s for
Built for educators in every classroom.
Born in a Montessori classroom, built for every classroom that integrates.
- All classroom teachers, grades K through 12
- Special education teachers and intervention specialists
- Tutors
- Homeschool parents
A note from Kelly
I teach upper elementary at a Montessori charter school in San Diego. For the last several years, I’ve been building integrated curriculum that weaves structured literacy into the work we already do — etymology in science, morphology in math, writing in every inquiry block.
Other educators kept asking me how I do it, and I realized the answer was a system, not a personality. TEMPOS is that system.
I’m opening early access to a small group of educators who want to shape it with me — classroom teachers, facilitators, guides, intervention specialists, instructional coaches, anyone teaching upper elementary who wants to weave structured literacy into every block. If that’s you, I’d love to have you on the list.
— Kelly
The waitlist is open.
No new block to add. Just the linguistic layers hiding inside the lessons you are already teaching. Early access opens this fall.