Teacher Resources for Instructional Planning


Grade 7, Reading and Language Arts Std #: 11 Relate literary elements and devices to each other, including main idea and supporting details, climax, point of view, and imagery.

Lesson Plans: Introduction to Poetry Using music to write poetry Critical Media Literacy Critically analyzing popular television programs. Review Basketball Using paper basketballs to help with comprehension of classroom readings Life-Size Characters Creating visual representation of characters for character analysis "Unforgettable Character" Students will recognize the main idea of a story, understand unfamiliar words in context, make inferences, and integrate information from outside the passage

Resources: Symbolic Borders Quick yet efficient way to check for understanding "It Was A Dark and Stormy Night" Finding the mood, tone, and theme of a poem Suggestions for English Language Learners: ESL Ideas (B=Beginning, I=Intermediate, T=Transitional) (B) Students copy a story map illustrating the plot of a story. (B, I, T) Students complete a character chart by checking off character traits of the main characters of a story. (I, T) Students assume moods of characters in oral reading such as in the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet or passages from Voices in Literature.
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