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A comprehensive 6-week Grade 7 ELA unit sequence covering narrative meter, sound devices, free verse, speaker perspective, and cross-genre synthesis across StudySync texts and TEKS Readiness Standards. Includes pacing guides, instructional slides, tiered worksheets, and STAAR-aligned SCR/ECR assessments.

A targeted middle school ELA instructional set exploring Gary Soto's short story Seventh Grade, focusing on text evidence inferences (7.RC.1), theme development (7.RC.2), and literary structural elements like parallel episodes (7.RC.3).

An engaging, highly visual single-page printable anchor chart explaining Parallel Episodes for 7th-grade ELA (Indiana Standard 7.RC.3). Features clear definitions, visual mirror metaphors, accessible mentor examples from folklore and Gary Soto's 'Seventh Grade', an author's purpose breakdown, and a 3-step student analysis protocol.

A comprehensive 3-day middle school English Language Arts mini-unit exploring Sandra Cisneros's classic short story "Eleven." Students examine figurative language, power dynamics, symbolism, and thematic development through close reading, discussion, and analytical writing.

Explores Pat Mora's Elena and Luis Omar Salinas' My Father Is a Simple Man. Focuses on free verse structure, enjambment, speaker vulnerability, pronoun-antecedent agreement, sentence variety, and STAAR SCR #2 on tone shift.

A comprehensive two-page printable RACES paragraph practice worksheet for Gary Soto's short story 'Seventh Grade'. Features four tiered inferential prompt choices—including an 8th grade standards-aligned Honors extension—a structured evidence planner, a dedicated paragraph writing workspace, and an Indiana ELA standards-aligned self-assessment rubric.

A dynamic three-lesson English language acquisition sequence designed for K-12 English Language Learners. Students develop essential conversational fluency, classroom survival vocabulary, and rich descriptive language through structured dialogue, visual scaffolds, and interactive practice.

Deep dive into Edgar Allan Poe's haunting lyric poem Annabel Lee. Analyzes internal rhyme, melodic meter, recurring refrains, appositives, and apostrophes, culminating in a paired comparative analysis with The Highwayman.

A simplified 7th-grade ELA close reading worksheet for 'Police Stop Changed This Teenager's Life', featuring scaffolded central idea practice, a sequential 3-part evidence tracker, tone word analysis with a word bank, and perspective shift charts.

A collection of targeted literacy intervention lessons and strategy sessions designed to build foundational language mechanics, advanced morphological word analysis, and critical reading comprehension skills.

A comprehensive 7th-grade TEKS-aligned syntax and punctuation lesson covering coordinating conjunctions (FANBOYS), prepositional phrases, and subordinating conjunctions (AAAWWUUBBIS) with STAAR editing strategies and student notebook anchor charts.

A comprehensive 2-page teacher facilitation and scoring guide for the summative cross-genre ECR. Includes multi-day drafting roadmaps, answer keys, STAAR rationales, the official TEA 5-point rubric, and an annotated 5/5 exemplar essay.