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.
Literacy isn’t a subject.
It’s the connective tissue of every subject.
TEMPOS is a planning system for all educators, built to weave structured literacy, writing, and inquiry into the lessons you’re already teaching.
Vocabulary lives inside science. Writing is how students consolidate math. Etymology and morphology open both. The teachers who teach this way produce students who can read, write, and reason across disciplines.
But that integration work has always lived inside individual teacher expertise — rebuilt from scratch, in classroom after classroom.
TEMPOS turns that expertise into a planning system. Every science term becomes a tessellation of etymology, morphology, phonology, and orthography. Every content unit becomes a vehicle for structured literacy — not bolted on, but built into how the content is taught.
The Method
The TEMPOS Method
Six interlocking layers. Not a checklist. Not a sequence. A tessellation.
Etymology
A vetted etymology library tied to elementary content standards. The origin story of any term in your science, math, or social studies unit — and the words students already know that share its roots.
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 for read-alouds, pronunciation modeling, and decoding instruction without leaving the unit you are planning.
Orthography
Spelling pattern and visual structure tools. 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.
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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Who it’s for
Built for the educators teaching it.
Upper elementary classroom teachers — grades four through six as the starting place, with a framework designed to grow across the elementary years.
Special education teachers, intervention specialists, and EL support staff building accommodations, scaffolds, and differentiated materials for students with IEPs, 504s, and language-based learning differences like dyslexia — from the same structured literacy science the rest of the classroom is using.
Instructional coaches and curriculum coordinators looking for a planning framework that doesn’t require every teacher to become a literacy specialist.
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're already teaching. Early access opens this fall.