Resource English Pacing Guide for Middle School Special Education

Are you tired of scrambling last minute to throw your resource English lessons together? Or do you want your lessons to be more cohesive and logically sequenced? Do you need validation of what to teach in reading/writing intervention and how to scaffold skills? Look no further!

This Pacing Guide is a suggestion to help you with planning. Based on your students’ needs, feel free to skip learning goals or success criteria or extend a skill farther than what is listed. Also, feel free to reorder the units as you see fit based on your grade level’s curriculum sequence. At the end of this document, there is a list of resources that you can use for multiple units or progress monitoring. All of the resources are free.

Units:
1. Community, Genres, and Grammar

2. Text Features and Text Structures

3. Annotating, Main/Central Idea, and Theme

4. Fluency

5. Writing

6. Inferencing and Context Clues

7. Character Traits

8. Figurative Language

9. Word Choice, Mood, and Tone

10. Plot

11. Poetry

12. Summary

Each unit includes an estimated time frame, essential question(s), learning goals, success criteria, and key vocabulary. Some units include links to free resources that may be helpful. At the beginning of the document I have given you some ideas for class structure, bell ringers, and assessments, as well as a suggested order to teach grammar and convention skills. You will get an editable Google Doc at your time of purchase.

Pacing: I paced this curriculum map out based on a class that meets 40 minutes or longer 5 days a week. I also took into consideration the structure I use in my class with lessons on Mondays through Thursdays and stations on Fridays. If you do not do stations, this gives you some buffer time to reteach skills, start at a lower level, or extend students' learning. I do strongly recommend that you choose how frequently you progress monitor IEP goals to ensure you get multiple data points from students per reporting period.

This pacing guide is designed for students with mild-moderate, high incidence disabilities in grades 6-8. If you teach multiple grades or loop with your students, you can use the same curriculum map year after year, just adjust where you start, how long you take to review foundational skills, and the difficulty of the skills you teach.

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