A focused reading lesson for 7th-grade students on Harriet Tubman's Combahee River Raid, featuring chunked text, stop-and-think scaffolded prompts, and multiple-choice main idea questions to build comprehension skills.
A comprehensive, highly visual novel study bundle for S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders', complete with vocabulary workshops, scaffolded comprehension guides, character trackers, and final creative projects.
A reading comprehension lesson based on the real-world charity 'Cards for Hospitalized Kids'. Students analyze the author's purpose and perspective behind the organization's founding and its ongoing mission to spread joy.
Students explore principles of visual design, contrast, and visual hierarchy to design and sketch an advocacy poster that supports their persuasive argument.
Students translate their scientific evidence into a structured, persuasive editorial or proposal, mastering rhetorical appeals and learning to counter opposing viewpoints.
Students investigate the science of light pollution, explore its ecological effects on wildlife and human health, and analyze real-world data to formulate their core argumentative thesis.
A lesson dedicated to breaking down words into their root structures, semantic relationships, and contextual nuances to build deep, permanent vocabulary comprehension.
A vocabulary-focused exploration of the distinction between aerosol art and vandalism. Students analyze how word choice shapes legal, cultural, and artistic perceptions of public space.
A 45-minute lesson focusing on crafting an original vignette in the poetic style of Sandra Cisneros. Students explore sensory imagery and metaphor, draft their own creative piece, and complete a collaborative peer review.
An end-of-year narrative writing assessment where students design their own video game character, setting, and quest, then write an engaging adventure story based on their creation.
Students structure powerful opinions using a 3-paragraph template. They leverage strong emotional hooks, evidence-based reason body blocks, and persuasive call-to-action conclusions.
Students learn to contrast and compare two topics using a structured 3-paragraph format. A dual-column layout, custom Venn diagrams, and comparison word banks guide them through similarities and differences.
Students master the highly structured 3-paragraph informational essay. They use visual icons, word banks, and fill-in-the-blank sentence starters to build a rock-solid introduction, body, and conclusion paragraph.
A comprehensive game design lesson focusing on creative writing and narrative architecture. Students learn how to build worlds, draft compelling character arcs, and design branching choice pathways through a series of structured worksheets, guided slides, and educator resources.
A high-energy, speech-conditioning lesson designed to eradicate vocalized pauses ('um', 'uh', 'like') through physical pacing drills and unscripted impromptu speaking challenges.
A comprehensive middle school morphology lesson focused on the prefix un-. Students master 25 high-level vocabulary words and practice deciphering complex context clues and structural word elements.
A comprehensive phonics and syllable review unit focusing on vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, syllable division, and affix-based word building. Includes a multi-page student review packet and a corresponding teacher answer key.
A comprehensive poetry analysis lesson exploring Langston Hughes's 'Mother to Son' with a focus on metaphor, resilience, and tone. Students will dissect the symbolic staircase and apply key themes to their understanding of historical and personal perseverance.
An immersive, medical-themed lesson where students act as 'Draft Doctors' to diagnose, triage, and perform surgery on a poorly organized, weak persuasive essay. Students learn paragraph structure, logical flow, and transition-building through a structured, clinical approach.
A comprehensive grammar lesson for advanced 7th graders that uses a 'Shadow Chasers' detective theme to master participial phrase openers and eliminate dangling modifiers. Students learn to match introductory participle modifiers (shadows) with their correct subjects (objects).
A celebratory end-of-year English Language Arts lesson where students step into the role of literary travel agents, designing promotional brochures and pitching fictional book worlds to classmates to boost summer reading.
A creative writing lesson where students select three personal songs representing past memories or future summer goals and draft short personal essays connecting music to their lives.
A structured writing unit for Holes by Louis Sachar focusing on the theme of friendship and loyalty. Students analyze Stanley and Zero's relationship and compose a five-paragraph essay using scaffolds, graphic organizers, and sentence frames.
A construction-themed lesson designed to master coordinating and subordinating conjunctions using visual cues, hands-on activities, and real-world daily life contexts.
A comprehensive middle-grade ELA lesson centering on Kamala Harris's Jamaican ancestry, tracing how her father's migration from Jamaica shaped her life and worldview. The lesson integrates rigorous context clue exploration, etymology studies of migration-related roots, and a hands-on proofreading editing activity.
A comprehensive reading comprehension and language arts lesson centered on Rihanna's Barbadian heritage, exploring culture, industry, and grammar.
A comprehensive training module for primary and middle school students to master public speaking, body language, and vocal projection through interactive games, structural worksheets, and professional rubrics.
A highly scaffolded 60-minute grammar lesson for EB/Newcomer students to master commas in compound sentences. Uses visual formulas, highly accessible language, and hands-on practice built around school and relationships.
A comprehensive assessment unit for Across Five Aprils, focusing on literary analysis, thematic exploration, and structured essay writing.
An interactive, versatile reading comprehension and analysis bundle designed for any book. Students complete a customizable 5x5 reading bingo board, document their analytical and creative responses on structured writing templates, and are evaluated using a comprehensive rubric.
A comprehensive reading and writing workshop focusing on analyzing text and drafting structured constructed responses and informational essays. Students engage with diverse passages spanning culinary arts, botany, and narrative mystery.