With every article in Scope, you’ll find a lesson plan to help you kickstart your planning. 

Think of these lesson plans almost like recipes–you’ll see the different skills the article targets, a list of teaching tools that are ready for you to use, and a guide you can follow for pre-reading activities and critical thinking questions that get at important ELA key skills.

You can take the lesson plans and follow them as-is, or pull out and customize whatever you need to work for your classroom. Many teachers find that our lesson plans are a great guiding resource to share with substitute teachers.