Implementing the Lessons

There are several ways to integrate self-paced lessons into your afterschool program. You might have students start work on one lesson and then wait until everyone has finished before you begin another. Or you might have small groups or student pairs work on different lessons.

You can also adapt the lessons to meet students’ needs and capabilities. If you have a writing-intensive program, you may find the final written assignment in the lessons to be a helpful practice exercise for long-response writing. If more students are struggling to write short-response items, you may want to focus the final assignment questions so that students can write a short response or have students draft an outline and then respond orally. You can also turn the final assignment into a debate or discussion topic for small groups or the entire group.