First 10 Days of Secondary ELA: A Two-Week Literacy Launch for Grades 6–12
Start the school year with more than icebreakers. This ready-to-teach 10-day ELA unit helps students build the critical reading habits they will use all year, including identifying claims, evaluating evidence, recognizing weak arguments, spotting logical fallacies, analyzing bias, and reading informational texts with confidence.
Each 35–45 minute lesson includes editable PowerPoints, complete speaker notes, student activities, exit tickets, answer keys, and a teacher guide. The lessons follow a clear progression from direct instruction and modeling to guided practice and independent application.
Includes:
- 10 complete daily ELA lessons
- Editable PowerPoints with teacher notes
- Student practice and reflection activities
- Classroom Social Contract
- Literacy Toolbox Journal
- Exit tickets and answer keys
- CCSS-aligned instruction for Grades 6–12
Perfect for: Middle School ELA, High School English, Reading Intervention, Homeschool, and Back-to-School Literacy Instruction.
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Secondary Reading Blueprint 1: Building Strong Readers
Blueprint 1 builds the foundational routines, habits, and intervention supports secondary students need to become more confident and independent readers.
Secondary Reading Blueprint 1: Building Strong Readers builds the foundational routines, habits, and intervention supports secondary students need to become more confident and independent readers.
Unit 1: Secondary Reading Intervention Starter Kit
Includes a beginning-of-year diagnostic, student growth tracker, goal-setting tools, and progress-monitoring resources.
Unit 2: Reading Routines for Secondary Students
Teaches students how to preview, annotate, monitor understanding, reread strategically, and use text evidence while reading.
Unit 3: High-Interest Reading Intervention Passages
Provides engaging reading practice through topics such as technology, sports, survival, history, mysteries, and teen decision-making.
Unit 4: Reading Strategies & Test Success
Helps students understand question types, read functional texts, manage time pressure, and build a personalized test-day strategy plan.
Secondary Reading Blueprint 2: Word Meaning, Morphology & Fluency
Blueprint 2 strengthens the word-level and sentence-level skills secondary students need to read complex academic texts accurately, fluently, and with stronger understanding.
Secondary Reading Blueprint 2 - Word Meaning, Morphology, and Fluency strengthens the word-level and sentence-level skills secondary students need to read complex academic texts accurately, fluently, and with stronger understanding.
Unit 5: Decoding Multisyllabic Words
Teaches students how to break apart long words, use prefixes, bases, and suffixes, and decode academic vocabulary in context.
Unit 6: Prefixes & Suffixes
Builds students’ understanding of affixes so they can determine word meaning and unlock unfamiliar academic vocabulary.
Unit 7: Greek & Latin Roots
Helps students recognize common roots, build word families, and understand high-frequency academic vocabulary across subjects.
Unit 8: Secondary Reading Fluency
Develops accuracy, efficiency, expression, phrasing, and the ability to monitor reading fluency over time.
Unit 9: Sentence-Level Comprehension
Supports students in breaking apart complex sentences, tracking ideas across sentences, and understanding academic syntax.