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English Language Arts lesson plans, handouts, activities and resources

Here are some English Language Arts lesson plans, handouts, activities and other resources to help you encourage a Growth Mindset in your classroom.

These reading strategies and articles are designed for Middle School Language Arts but will also work with older elementary, high school English, as well as more advanced English Language Learners.

English Language Arts Video Lessons for Distance Learning (Comprehension Reading Strategies)

Reading Strategies Lesson Plans

Each English Language Arts lesson plan focuses on a different reading comprehension strategy and includes a lesson plan, slideshow to teach the reading strategy, generic handout to use the strategy as well as a reading comprehension strategy poster.

This works well, whether you’re doing guided reading with booster groups or homogeneous groups or you’re reviewing a reading concept with your entire class.

Inferring

There's a lot more to making connections than just saying text to text, text to self, and text to world... (Poster of 4 strategies)

Making Connections

Asking Questions Reading Comprehension Strategies

Reading Comprehension Articles

Service dog not allowed in class: Systemic Discrimination CRITICAL THINKING lesson (Reading Response Article 009)

First Black leader of a Federal Party in Canada: COLLABORATION lesson (Reading Response Article 008)

California Surfer – Character Education Lesson (Reading Response Article 007)

Building Bridges – Active Citizenship Lesson (Reading Response Article 006)

Rosa Parks – Quiet Courage (Reading Response Article 005) – Assertive Communication Lesson

Airplane wheel falls off during takeoff in Canada (Reading Response Article 004)

Pork roast cooked in a car during a record-breaking heatwave in Australia #AusTeacherBFR

Small business owner pays it forward by paying overdue utility bills for 36 families over the holidays

Axe Body Spray has a Florida school bus stopped (FREE Critical Thinking mini-lesson slideshow)

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