A targeted 7th-grade RLA intervention sequence designed for rapid 30-minute sessions. It equips students with durable, reusable tools for finding central ideas and decoding context clues.
A 3-week foundational reading and vocabulary unit for 7th-grade intervention. Students master dictionary reference tools, high-leverage affixes, and root words while developing evidence-based reading analysis skills.
A middle-to-high school English Language Arts lesson using text message exchanges to teach high-rigor inferencing, character perspective taking, and text evidence citation.
A 2-page teacher answer key and exemplar guide called 'Inbox Inferences Exemplar Guide' for evaluating students' open-ended text message reading comprehension. It includes a comprehensive grading rubric and detailed exemplar responses for each of the four text exchanges and synthesis challenge.
A comprehensive, year-long 30-minute intervention curriculum designed to close the 7th-grade reading achievement gap. It blends systemic academic vocabulary acquisition, structured context clue strategies, and rigorous informational text navigation.
An intensive, highly scaffolded writing experience designed to prepare middle-school level learners for the HSED RLA extended response. Students learn to analyze opposing arguments, structure their own claims with evidence and reasoning, and write a cohesive essay.
A 4-page academic ELA reading comprehension worksheet called 'Inbox Inferences Worksheet'. Added Page 4 containing a high-complexity text exchange between Morgan and Chris with rigorous questions targeting character identification, summarizing, making inferences, perspective-taking, and analyzing communication breakdown.
A masterclass sequence on word study, morphology, and vocabulary acquisition. This unit teaches students to deconstruct complex English words using structural analysis of roots and affixes.
A highly engaging, visual one-week introduction to Daily Grammar Practice (DGP). This lesson guides students through analyzing a single sentence over five days, breaking down parts of speech, sentence components, clauses, mechanics, and sentence diagramming using a modern, structured layout.
A 3-page academic ELA reading comprehension worksheet called 'Inbox Inferences Worksheet' focused purely on inferencing, tone, character analysis, and citing text evidence from text message exchanges, ending with an academic synthesis activity.
Week 3 intervention covering prefixes (dis-, non-, in-, ir-) and roots (auto, graph, gen). Students analyze word parts and leverage contrast context clues to unlock text comprehension.
A 1-page print-optimized Peer Review Rubric and Feedback Sheet for the Clash of Claims lesson. Designed for collaborative student evaluation, it includes a CER verification checklist, a transition tracker, and a structured feedback space for peers to swap drafts and offer actionable revisions.
Week 2 intervention targeting prefixes (pre-, mis-, over-, mid-) and suffix (-ment). Students learn to deconstruct words and use contextual definition clues to determine meaning.
