This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 5th grade ELA content.

This resource accompanies our Rethink 6th Grade ELA course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning. 

This is an intermediate learning plan based on Unit 1 of the WordBuilder Vocabulary book. This particular resource will be used with an Advanced 6th Grade ELA class, as the vocabulary words are consiered to be at a 7th grade level. However, it could be used with a 7th grade class as well. Students take a pre-assessment, and their score dictates which sets of activities they need to complete, with the goal being to move them toward proficiency on the post assessment. This intermediate playlist was developed as part of a professional learning opportunity funded by the NCDPI Digital Learning Initiative Planning Grant.

This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 6th grade English Language Arts content.

Students will learn the components of an informational essay. Through modeling, mini-lessons and multiple opportunities for practice and feedback, students will go through the writing process to produce an informational essay on the topic of their choice.

Researching different cultures in the Eastern and Western Hemisphere.

6.3.3 Describe and compare major physical characteristics of regions in Europe and the Americas.
6.3.4 Describe and compare major cultural characteristics of regions in Europe and the Western Hemisphere.

This unit addresses four 6th grade reading standards taught throughout the course of a trimester. These lessons are designed to be taught one day a week, while the other days in the trimester are focused on writing units. This unit is designed to be co-taught with a general education and special education teacher, but can be easily adapted if only one teacher is present.

Students will learn the components of a Narrative writing. Through mini-lessons (Ex: dialogue, story elements, figurative language, good introductions,genre study,  etc.),  daily writing and revising, students will go through the writing process to produce a narrative writing on a topic of their choice.

This lesson is for 7th grade students reading A Long Walk to Water.

 After reading the novel The Outsiders, students will be asked to write down the “dream life” that each of the main characters could be living, describing in detail the different things that would be in the different lives of three main characters. They will then design these ideal lives from their writing on three Merge Cubes using three cospaces designs. Students will then look at each other’s cubes and try to guess which character fits with each side of the cube and why while they document their thought process with each cube examination.

 This is a project centering around students writing any narrative story of their choosing. The teacher will go through the process of labeling the parts of a story with a narrative as a class and demonstrate why each one fits in that story element. Students will then be given a topic to write their own story on that will fit into each labeled story element. Students will then be asked to summarize these events into visual images that will be created using CoSpaces. They will then be challenged to create at least 3 different stories out of the same original events they created on their CoSpaces story cube.

This resource accompanies our Rethink 7th Grade ELA course. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning. 

Students will first use VR headsets to gain some background knowledge about Titanic. They will begin this story by examining the tone of the iceberg and they will then apply these skills to analyze the tone of other characters in the text. They will then create a Storyboard to create a character they think should be added to the story. They will create the character and use appropriate word choice to show tone.

Students will examine the different perspectives of characters in the text. They will analyze how those perspectives are created by the author and they will show those relationships between the characters by creating tableau vivants with a green screen.

Students will watch a video of the blame scene from Titanic the musical. They will review the lyrics and make a preliminary determination about who they think is most to blame for the large loss of life on Titanic. Students will them look at the poster timeline created in Titanic 3 or they can scan their text to find examples that support their claim about who is most to blame. Finally, students will complete some online research to find evidence to support their claim. This will all be presented in a Glog on Glogster.

This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the 7th grade ELA content.

To complete this assignment, students should have already learned the basics of figurative langauge and have practiced identifying and analyzing simile, metaphor, and personification. This lesson will allow them to take their learning to the next step to create their own examples of figurative language that they will they build into an original nature poem.

In this unit, students will be reading and writing myths following the structure of short stories and eventually publishing their own work.

The 7th grade poetry unit gives an in-depth approach to poetry. Included are worksheets, rubrics, and answers keys where applicable along with CCSS literature examples.