A lesson focused on Chapter 8 of Treasure Island, exploring Long John Silver's strategic leadership and Jim Hawkins' observations during a tense pirate mutiny.

A targeted lesson for ELA Regents Part 3 preparation, focusing on identifying central ideas and analyzing how literary devices develop those ideas using the short story 'The Mirror That Lies'.

Craft compelling survival narratives using specific transition words to guide the reader through a sequence of events.

Analyze high-interest survival stories to identify claims and locate textual evidence that supports them.

Explore modern survival technology while practicing identifying main ideas and using context clues to decode technical vocabulary.

The fourth installment of the vocabulary mastery series, focusing on 25 academic terms including Surge, Fleeting, and Linger through contextual practice and assessment. Based on Maniac Magee.

This lesson equips ELL students with essential close reading strategies for the NYS ELA Regents, focusing on annotation, vocabulary in context, and identifying author's purpose and tone using passages from the 2025 exams.

A third installment of vocabulary mastery, focusing on 25 high-frequency academic terms through matching, contextual usage, and assessment.

This lesson prepares students for the NYS Regents English Language Arts Exam Part 3: Text Analysis Response. It focuses on identifying and analyzing metaphor, imagery, diction, and tone in nonfiction passages using actual exam excerpts.

A middle school lesson focused on the 'ci' and 'ti' spellings of the /sh/ sound, featuring a wordlist, decodable narrative, and instructional slides.