An hour-long structured reading lesson focusing on B and W letter-sound association and common sight words. Designed with dyslexia-friendly spacing, color-coded highlights, and picture scaffolding to support struggling oral readers.

A seventh-grade ELA lesson focused on identifying key ideas, controlling ideas, and argumentative claims with supporting evidence. Students complete a structured guided-notes packet based on instructional slides and apply their skills to evaluate opposing viewpoints.

A lesson focused on teaching grade 7 students how to make inferences about an author's use of language, including figurative language, mood, and tone, to understand their specific purposes. Students complete guided cloze notes and apply their learning to analyze Hughes's poem 'Dreams' and identify terms.

A comprehensive lesson analyzing character motivations, behaviors, and their impacts on plot development and themes using excerpts from The Hunger Games.

A 45-minute small group lesson for 7th graders focusing on the final three vignettes of 'The House on Mango Street'. Students explore Esperanza's evolving view of independent women, role models, and the symbolic paths to freedom represented by the house and writing.

A comprehensive guided practice lesson on RI.7.2 and RI.7.3, focused on how unique organisms interact with extreme ecosystems. Students explore deep-sea vents, toxic caves, and frozen deserts through modeling slides, collaborative task-card stations, and a tracking notebook.

A superhero-themed writing workshop lesson that guides students through mastering the TEXT paragraph structure and upgrading it to a full four-paragraph essay. Features dynamic, comic-inspired anchor charts and pocket-sized desk checklists.

This lesson provides a highly structured scaffold to help co-taught ELA students build a comparison thesis statement and paragraph. It links the protagonist Amal from Amal Unbound with Edgar Guest's inspirational poem 'See It Through', focusing on the theme of resilience.

A high-interest figurative language lesson using real quotes from Chapters 31-40 of Byron Graves's novel Rez Ball, tailored for 7th-grade ELA resource room students. Includes a visual reference guide, matching task cards, a cut-and-paste sorting sheet, and a teacher key.

A comprehensive 7th-grade literary analysis and annotation unit based on Gary Soto's short story 'Seventh Grade'. Students track character development, plot, and themes while practicing active questioning and drawing text-based inferences.

A close-reading lesson exploring conflict and setting in Gary Paulsen's Woodsong. Students analyze how the brutal winter environment drives the plot and shapes the central conflict.

A literature lesson focused on Gary Paulsen's Winterdance Chapter 1. Students analyze how setting drives conflict and explore personal connections to the themes of survival, fear, and shattered illusions.

An immersive introductory lesson on dystopian literature. Students analyze systems of control, common tropes, and societal rebellion through visual slides, structured graphic organizers, and a creative choice board with heavy scaffolding and sentence starters.

A complete ELA lesson examining tone, mood, and word choice shifts in Daniel Caesar's song 'Superpower', exploring themes of resilience and self-realization.

A comprehensive final assessment and evaluation suite for 7th grade ELA, covering theme, character development, central ideas, context clues, and analytical writing.

A comprehensive final exam lesson on Lois Lowry's 'The Giver', featuring a high-stakes, dystopian-themed student assessment and an educator's answer key and rubric focusing on memory, conformity, and character choice.

A targeted writing lesson that guides students through crafting high-impact opinion essays on water pollution and water demand. Students learn to combine fact-based evidential appeals, emotional connections, and structured problem-solution calls to action.

A middle school ELA lesson focusing on the suffix '-cian' (denoting a specialist or practitioner). Students learn 25 distinct terms, analyze their roots, and apply them in high-context graphic organizers, fill-in-the-blank challenges, and analytical writing exercises.

A vocabulary and morphology lesson focusing on the academic and STEM suffix -cian, representing highly skilled occupational roles. Students explore word roots, spelling transformations, and professional definitions.

A masterclass in decoding, spelling, and analyzing 3- and 4-syllable words containing ti, ci, tious, cious, tial, and cial. Students explore phonics, spelling rules, and morphology through structured word breakdown.

A comprehensive toolkit for guiding students through designing, planning, and executing a highly creative digital book report presentation on one of four shared class novels.

An engaging introductory poetry lesson for 7th-grade special education students focusing on six key poetic devices (simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, imagery, symbolism) using popular music lyrics (with a focus on Taylor Swift hits) to scaffold understanding with familiar texts.

A comprehensive, deeply rigorous lesson centered on the theme of 'Conflicts and Clashes' in Gary Paulsen's memoir 'Woodsong' and Rudyard Kipling's 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi'. The lesson explores how natural conflicts dismantle romanticized views of nature and how different authorial styles and narrative structures build suspense and theme.

A comprehensive lesson exploring the four core literary conflicts (Character vs. Character, Self, Nature, and Society) using Rudyard Kipling's classic tale, 'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi'. Students map story conflicts and reflect on their own personal battles through structured graphic organizers and personal connection prompts.