Original PromptCreate a 20 minute tier two lesson for approaching level 7th graders using Indiana ELA standards for 7th grade.
This resource focuses on enhancing students' reading comprehension skills, particularly in the areas of citing textual evidence and making inferences. It includes a learning objective aimed at helping students identify and use explicit details from texts, as well as infer meanings and emotions based on context. The document features two reading selections, 'The Midnight Gale' and 'The Dusty Attic', alongside a series of guided and independent practice activities that follow the Claim, Evidence, Reasoning (CER) model. These activities encourage students to analyze characters' feelings and the conditions depicted in the texts, fostering critical thinking and analytical skills related to reading comprehension.