A high-energy set of activities designed to master comparative and superlative adverbs through movement, sorting, and creative sentence construction.

A comprehensive two-hour test preparation lesson focusing on Process of Elimination (POE) and prompt paraphrasing, utilizing 2025 NYS Grade 7 ELA released items to build student confidence and accuracy.

A comprehensive lesson teaching students how to organize their writing using specific structures for narrative, opinion, informational, and compare/contrast genres. Students will learn to use the Story Mountain, Hamburger Map, First-Next-Last sequences, and Venn Diagrams to ensure their writing follows a clear, linear path.

A lesson focused on the suffixes -ation, -cation, and -ition and how they transform verbs into nouns. Students analyze word pairs like 'inform' and 'information'.

A lesson focused on the suffix -ion involving spelling changes such as dropping the final 'e' or changing 'd' to 's'. Students analyze pairs like 'operate' and 'operation'.

A lesson focused on the suffixes -ion and -ian with no spelling change to the base word. Students analyze nouns like 'invention', 'magician', and 'musician'.

A lesson focused on the suffix -ion and how it changes verbs into nouns with no spelling change to the base word. Students analyze word pairs like 'collect' and 'collection'.

A targeted grammar lesson focusing on subject-verb agreement through the high-interest lens of professional soccer. Designed for advanced students who need to master complex compound subjects and prepositional phrase interference.

Students become Word Alchemists, learning to transform common, 'base' vocabulary into high-powered academic language through context and connotation.

Day 4: Students participate in a 'Grand Jury' collaborative discussion to synthesize their evidence from the week and reach a final verdict on the unit's key texts.

Day 3: Students dive into 'Ozymandias' by Percy Bysshe Shelley, using textual evidence to infer the poem's deeper meanings about power and time.

Day 2: Students examine a non-fiction article about the Mary Celeste to distinguish between explicit facts and inferences while citing several pieces of evidence.

Day 1: Students analyze Roald Dahl's 'The Landlady' to practice making inferences and citing evidence to support their claims about the story's eerie outcome.

Students learn to distinguish between 'weak' and 'strong' evidence using a detective-themed approach. They will analyze high-interest short stories to select the evidence that best supports a given claim, focusing on relevance and specificity.

A lesson focused on the suffixes -en, -ize, and -ify. Students investigate how these suffixes transform base words into verbs representing actions or states.