🛟 CI Survival Kit

Your Monthly Lifeline for Comprehensible-Input Teaching

CI Survival Kit

Stop scrambling for lessons. Start surviving the school year with ready-to-teach CI resources that save your time, your energy, and your last good Expo marker.

A done-for-you monthly pack of CI lessons, activities, and assessments designed to keep you sane, caffeinated, and looking like you actually had time to plan.

Sound familiar?

  • It’s Sunday night, 8:43 p.m. You’re staring at your computer muttering, “What even is language acquisition again?”

  • The class story you thought would take 3 days took… 12 minutes.

  • You’ve Googled “CI sub plans” more times than you’ve Googled your own bank balance.

  • You love Comprehensible Input, but the planning feels like a second unpaid full-time job.

Spoiler alert: You don’t get paid enough to reinvent the CI wheel every single week.

Join Now – Early Adopter Pricing: $17/month or $170/year (for a Limited Time)

CI Survival Kit

I've worked with...

NTPRS
The Agent Workshop
CI in the Mitten
Alaskans for Language Acquisition
SWCOLT
CLTA
Clark County School District
Minneapolis Public Schools
Norfolk Public Schools
ES 16

Sunday night panic? Neutralized.

Your monthly CI lifeline is here. Stop scrambling. Start surviving.

🛟 Enter: The CI Survival Kit

Imagine if every month someone handed you a complete CI lesson plan and said, “Here. Teach this. Look amazing. Go finish your Diet Pepsi.”

That’s the CI Survival Kit.

Every month you get:

1 Complete CI Lesson Plan that can cover 3–5 days including:


1 Class Story, Picture Talk, or Movie Talk (varies by month)

1 Class Reading
1 Listening Activity
1 Reading Activity
1 Speaking Activity
1 Writing Activity
1 Cultural Activity (because culture isn’t optional)
1 Assessment (low-prep, high-alignment)
1 short Strategy Video (different strategy each month)

Translation: A full week of input-based teaching, done-for-you, every month, for less than the cost of one of those ugly teacher t-shirts they sell on Facebook.

CI lessons done-for-you. You just show up (and look amazing).

Why Teachers Are Loving It

Zero Guesswork
Balanced & Complete
Made by a Real CI Teacher
Low Prep, High Impact

Zero Guesswork

Balanced & Complete

Made by a Real CI Teacher

Low Prep, High Impact

No more Frankensteining activities from Pinterest at 11:17 p.m.

Input → interaction → output → assessment, neatly packaged like the unicorn of lesson plans.

Tested on actual students, not lab rats or “hypothetical learners in a methods book.”

You can prep these lessons in less time than it takes your copier to jam.

Prep time: 10 minutes. Student engagement: off the charts.

The CI Survival Kit = low prep, high impact.

What’s Inside the Box?

Every month, you get a kit packed with everything you need for a full week of CI teaching—and none of the extra fluff you don’t have time for.

  • A Complete Lesson Plan that covers 3–5 days of class or swoops in to bail you out of the week you “planned in your head” but never actually wrote down.

  • Plug-and-Play Listening and Reading Activities that are designed to work together, not like two random handouts you Frankensteined at 11:17 p.m.

  • Speaking and Writing Activities that encourage output without making your students cry—or you.

  • A Cultural Lesson that makes you look globally-minded and well-rounded instead of globally-exhausted.

  • An Assessment that actually aligns with CI and doesn’t trigger hives when your admin asks for “data.”

  • A Monthly CI Strategy Video that gives you a different CI teaching strategy each month.
    Think:

    • How to stretch one story into a week of input

    • Getting 100 reps without sounding like a broken record

    • Low-prep personalization tricks that actually work

    • How to sneak CI into your mandated textbook unit without anyone noticing

Translation: Not only are you getting done-for-you lessons, you’re also building your CI teaching toolkit every single month.

Teach now. Learn a new CI strategy every month. Two wins. One kit.

Currently Available for Level 1. Level 2 and 3 Coming Soon!

Free Samples

Spanish Sample
French Sample
German Sample

Strategy Video

When your lesson plan ghosts you… we don’t.

Monthly done-for-you CI lessons and activities.

Why It’s Different

You’ve seen those “lesson packs” before—the ones with 30 pages of random activities that look cute but leave you staring at them muttering, “Cool… but how do I actually teach this?”

That’s not the CI Survival Kit.

This kit is built to:

  • Actually save you time instead of creating more planning work disguised as “resources.”

  • Actually follow CI principles so your students are getting meaningful, comprehensible input instead of a vocabulary scavenger hunt.

  • Actually work in real classrooms with 38 students, a broken projector, and a surprise fire drill in the middle of your story.

This isn’t a resource dump. This is your monthly CI lifeline. The one that gets you through the week, keeps your lessons consistent, and doesn’t require you to sell your soul to Pinterest at midnight.

Your students will think you planned for hours. We won’t tell.”

CI teaching shouldn’t require a second full-time job.

We handle the planning. You handle the teaching.

💰 Pricing That Won’t Make Your Wallet Cry

Look, teachers are professional bargain hunters. We can stretch a $50 classroom budget into 97 Expo markers and a dream. That’s why the CI Survival Kit is priced to save your time without wrecking your wallet.


Early Adopter Pricing – Limited Time (Lock in this rate forever. Seriously. Forever.)

  • $17/month
    Save $10/month compared to the regular price. That’s $120/year back in your pocket—or, let’s be honest, back in Starbucks’ cash register.

  • $170/year
    Save $100 off the annual price and get 2 months free. That’s like buying 10 months of sanity and getting the last two as a bonus gift from the CI gods.


🚨 Standard Pricing (after early access closes)

  • $27/month

  • $270/year (Still a steal, but why pay more when you don’t have to?)

Translation: Join now and you’ll have less stress, more time, and an extra $10 a month to spend on caffeine and survival snacks.

Your backup plan just became your best plan.

Complete CI lesson plans, activities, and assessments every month.

Hi, I'm Scott.

I’m a Teacher Just Like You (And a Survivor of Sunday Night Panic).

When I started teaching, my “lesson planning system” looked like this:

  • 3 half-empty Diet Pepsi bottles.

  • 17 open Chrome tabs.

  • A whiteboard marker that worked sometimes.

  • And the faint hope that if I smiled enough, my students wouldn’t notice I had no idea what was coming next.

Sound familiar? Yeah, I thought so.

I loved the idea of Comprehensible Input.

The reality? Trying to plan stories, reading activities, assessments, AND keep it all aligned to proficiency standards felt like a second full-time job.

Sundays became my personal Hunger Games: may the odds be ever in your favor when the copier jams at 7:12 a.m. on Monday.

I remember thinking, “If someone could just hand me a done-for-you CI lesson every month, I’d give them my teacher paycheck, my favorite Expo marker, and possibly my first-born seating chart.”

That’s why I created the CI Survival Kit.

It’s the exact thing I wished existed when I was drowning in planning and caffeine: a ready-to-teach, plug-and-play CI lesson pack that actually works in real classrooms with real students and real chaos.

And here’s the thing: I’m not some curriculum company in a glass office tower.

I’m in the trenches too.

I know what it’s like to watch a class story you thought would last a week fizzle out in 12 minutes flat.

I know what it’s like to pray the fire drill doesn’t hit during your only good lesson of the semester.

So consider the CI Survival Kit my lifeline to you—the “backup plan” that becomes your best plan.

Because teaching CI shouldn’t feel like a second full-time job.

And because we both deserve to enjoy Sunday night without a side of existential dread.

I've Got You!

Scott

Stop Teachers-Pay-Teachers-ing at 11:47 p.m. You deserve better.

Ready-to-teach CI lessons every month. No guesswork. No chaos.

FAQ

(a.k.a. Things Teachers Always Ask)

Can this fix my broken projector?

Nope. But the Picture Talk activity will work just fine on a whiteboard. And yes, we’ve all taught CI with three markers and pure willpower.

Will this make my students behave?

Not exactly. But a well-planned CI lesson does cut down on chaos, and the Survival Kit gives you zero dead time. Bored students cause trouble. Engaged students forget to throw erasers.

Does this mean I’ll never have to plan again?

Nice try. The CI Survival Kit gives you a ready-to-teach lesson every month, but I can’t plan your fire drills, assemblies, or the day the Wi-Fi dies. (That’s above my pay grade.)

Can I use this if I’m running on 3 hours of sleep and cold coffee?

Absolutely. In fact, the kit was designed by a teacher in exactly that state. We speak fluent “exhausted.”

Will my admin finally understand what CI is?

Probably not. But they will see engaged students using language, which is basically admin catnip.

Can this make my copies actually print double-sided?

If it could, I’d charge $1,000 a month. But everything is digital, so you can project, print, or even go paperless if your copier hates you (which it does).

Is this going to sit in my downloads folder collecting digital dust?

Not a chance. Each kit is designed to be taught right away, with zero fluff. And the strategy video makes it so easy to implement that you’ll actually want to open it.

Will this work if my students speak more English than the target language in class?

Yes. These lessons are built for maximum input and engagement, even with wobbly CI routines. You’ll get them listening and responding in the target language before they realize what hit them.

Does this mean I have to stop using my textbook?

Nope. If you’re stuck with a curriculum map or textbook, the CI Survival Kit can slot in as a supplement. Think of it as “CI vitamins” for your traditional class.

Will this make me look like I actually have my life together?

Yes. And you can totally take the credit. We won’t tell.

What if I still have questions?

Please contact us and ask away!

Normally $27mo or $270/yr

For a Limited Time - Just $17/mo or $170/yr!

🛟 This Is Your Rescue Plan

You don’t need another Pinterest board full of half-baked activities.

You don’t need one more late-night scroll through “CI hacks” while whispering “I can make this work” over cold coffee.

You need a ready-to-go plan that saves your time, your energy, and what’s left of your sanity after third period.

The CI Survival Kit isn’t just a backup plan.

It’s the done-for-you plan.

The “wow, you look so prepared” plan.

The “I swear I didn’t just invent this in the parking lot” plan.

Every month, it swoops in like a caffeinated superhero with:
✅ A full CI lesson plan (3–5 days of class covered—cue the angels singing)
✅ Listening, reading, speaking, writing, culture, and assessment
✅ A short strategy video so you don’t have to guess how to use any of it

And here’s the kicker: for less than a buck a day, you can finally stop treating Sunday nights like an episode of Survivor: Teacher Edition.

👉 Join now at $17/month or $170/year and lock it in forever.

(Founding member pricing ends soon. After that, it’s $27/month and a tiny bit more regret.)

Translation: You bring the students. We’ll bring the sanity. The copier will still jam, but at least your lesson won’t.

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