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.

An instructional lesson for 6th grade ELA focused on identifying central ideas, supporting details, and writing objective summaries using a history of video games passage.

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 comprehensive lesson on making inferences and locating textual evidence for 7th-grade students, featuring interactive notes, visual prompts, and differentiated parallel passages.

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.

An advanced grammar and syntax lesson for Grades 5-6 introducing compound sentences, prepositions, and conjunctions using complex connector hinges and spacer blocks.

A highly tactile, early-grades grammar lesson focused on constructing simple sentences with Blue Noun blocks, Green Verb motors, Capital Crowns, and Period Stoppers.

A highly visual, Lego-themed grammar lesson where students become 'Brick Architects' to snap color-coded word blocks together, apply end-cap punctuation, and build sentence towers.

A rigorous grade 6 literary analysis lesson comparing Zitkála-Šá's 'The Cutting of My Long Hair' and Cal's 'Two Roads' with specialized scaffolding for ELL students.

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 funny, engaging 6th grade reading comprehension packet ideal for substitute teacher days. Students read a humorous story about a literal genie, answer text-dependent questions, and write a structured paragraph about their own precise wishes using detailed sentence starters.

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.