Consolidates skills through independent practice and a formal assessment to gauge student mastery.

Focuses on drawing conclusions from informational texts by synthesizing facts and background knowledge.

Focuses on applying inference skills to literary texts, identifying character traits, emotions, and setting clues.

Introduces the core concept of inferencing as an equation: Text Evidence + Schema = Inference. Includes a teacher manual and instructional slides.

A fast-paced creative writing lesson exploring extended metaphors through Carol Ann Duffy's 'Valentine'. Students deconstruct unconventional imagery and draft their own anti-cliché love poems.

A comprehensive lesson guiding students from the history and purpose of slam poetry through writing original verses to performing with impact and giving constructive peer feedback.

A quick, high-impact grammar warm-up focused on using commas and coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS) to join independent clauses correctly. Students act as 'Sentence Surgeons' to repair broken compound sentences.

A quick-hit 15-minute lesson focused on identifying and repairing run-on sentences using three primary correction methods. Students act as 'sentence mechanics' to tune up clunky writing.

This lesson teaches students how to use Google Translate's speech-to-text and text-to-speech features to self-evaluate their spoken language. Focus areas include pronunciation clarity, grammatical accuracy of transcribed text, and oral fluency.