FREE ELA LESSON PLANS, SCOPE AND SEQUENCE, CCSS STANDARDS SEQUENCE

Need help with lesson plans for middle school ELA? Feel free to grab this year long CCSS aligned scope and sequence with monthly lesson plans.

This curriculum is designed in a spiral which introduces and revisits content throughout the year, building upon each skill with increasing complexity.  Spiraling of this curriculum is guided by Bloom's Revised Taxonomy.

INCLUDED:

Yearly Overview

Spiral Framework

Monthly Lesson Plans

CCSS Standards Alignment For Each Lesson Plan

Overview and Rationale For Each Lesson Plan

Student Skill Tracker

Each quarter in this sequence focuses on one of the 4 major writing tasks: Narrative, Literary Analysis, Argumentative, and Informational. Subsequent activities relate and support these writing tasks. Here is a brief overview.

QUARTER 1-

MAJOR WRITING TASKS:

NARRATIVE WRITING & LITERARY ANALYSIS, R.A.C.E. CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE WRITING

Literary Elements: plot, setting, conflict, theme, character,

figurative language

QUARTER 2-

MAJOR WRITING TASKS:

ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY AND THESIS STATEMENT WRITING

Literary Elements: Dialogue, mood, inferences, symbolism, plot, theme, characters, foreshadowing, conflict.

QUARTER 3-

MAJOR WRITING TASKS: 

INFORMATIVE WRITING, THESIS STATEMENT, SHORT CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE

ELA test prep

QUARTER 4-

MAJOR WRITING TASKS:

END OF YEAR WRITING REVIEW, LETTER WRITING

Literary Element: Review