Pit Crew: Plans and Hidden Meanings

A school car club has nine days to get its electric kart ready for a student race. Middle schoolers sort must-do jobs from nice-to-do ones using the coach's checklist, read team chat messages and infer what the writers mean but don't say, choose the most respectful way to disagree with a teammate, link ideas with transition words (therefore, however, meanwhile), match car idioms to their meanings and finish with a contrast-word catching game. Every passage, message, question and answer has a read-aloud button. Built for speech-language groups and grades 6-8 ELA.

• 5 vocabulary flashcards (inspection, priority, deadline, pit crew, lap)
• A three-part story with read-aloud passages and 7 comprehension questions
• Two team chat messages for inferring unstated meaning
• A must-do / nice-to-do sort, a transition-word fill-in and a car idiom match
• A contrast-word conveyor belt game and a scored ending

• Infer what a writer means but does not say in a short message, using clues in the text
• Decide which tasks in a plan must come first and explain why
• Choose transition words that show result, contrast and time
• Interpret common figures of speech in context
• Disagree with a teammate respectfully and offer a plan