This 7th-grade special education lesson plan outlines a 3-5 day unit designed to teach students the FUEL Writing Strategy—a structured approach for writing a paragraph in response to a reading passage or prompt. The goal is for students to successfully write a paragraph containing all four FUEL components using a graphic organizer and sentence starters. The instruction follows a gradual release model, with Day 1 focusing on Focus and Understand through modeling and guided practice. Day 2 introduces and practices finding and incorporating Evidence with activities like an Evidence Sort Game. Day 3 focuses on writing the concluding Link sentence to wrap up the paragraph. Optional Day 4-5 are for revision, color-coding, conferencing, and final assessment, which is based on the final paragraph and completed checklist or graphic organizer.
