Description This lesson teaches students the difference between formal and informal language and helps them understand how an author’s style should change depending on audience,...
Description This paired texts analysis lesson focuses on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving and The Hand by Guy de Maupassant, two classic nineteenth-century short...
Description This paired texts analysis lesson focuses on The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black Cat, two classic gothic short stories that provide rich opportunities for text-depende...
Description These digital picture writing prompts are engaging visual story starters designed to inspire narrative writing and quick writes in middle school and high school ELA ...
Description This resource builds on Greek and Latin roots Volume 1 and introduces students to 22 additional root words commonly found in academic and literary texts. Designed to...
Description Teach and reinforce vocabulary skills with this comprehensive Greek and Latin roots lesson focused on root words, prefixes, and suffixes. This resource exposes stude...
Description If you are looking for powerful paired texts for literary analysis, this lesson features The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin and The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Pe...
Description Prepare your students to write a strong Text Dependent Analysis (TDA) with this comprehensive evidence-based writing lesson. Designed for test preparation and skill-...
Description Teach your students how to write an effective argumentative essay with this engaging and student-centered argumentative writing lesson. Designed for middle school an...
Description This resource provides an extensive short story vocabulary lesson designed to support reading comprehension and literary analysis for any short story or fiction unit...
Description This lesson introduces students to characterization in literature and helps them understand how authors develop characters through both description and action. Desig...
Description Teach your students how to identify and analyze point of view in literature with this clear and comprehensive ELA lesson. This resource helps students understand how...
Description Allusions are an important form of figurative language that shape tone, meaning, and author’s intent in literature. This lesson teaches students how to identify, int...
Description This lesson introduces students to the three types of irony and builds a strong foundation for understanding verbal irony, situational irony, and dramatic irony. It ...
Description Making inferences is a critical reading comprehension skill students need in order to become successful, independent readers. This inferencing lesson can be used to ...
Description This lesson is a great way to introduce students to theme in literature and help them understand how authors communicate universal themes across texts. Designed for ...
Description Tell your students to put on their thinking hats with this engaging critical thinking and discussion lesson built around the Six Thinking Hats strategy. This instruc...
Description Through English Language Arts, this multi-day lesson allows teachers to introduce students to the Civil Rights Movement while exploring the life and legacy of Dr. Ma...
Description This nonfiction speech analysis lesson focuses on Sojourner Truth, an African American abolitionist and women’s rights activist of the nineteenth century. Students c...
Description This nonfiction close reading lesson features President George W. Bush’s Address to the Nation from September 11, 2001, paired with analysis questions that directly ...
