Standard Course of Study :: English Language Arts

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Animal Research: A Multimedia Approach: Students will be working with a partner to research a favorite animal. They will be required to use a wide variety of resources which include multimedia software packages, the Internet, and various books. The students will be looking up general information about their animal, such as its habitat, place on the food chain, size, etc. Ultimately the students will be responsible for presenting the information they have gathered in some form of multimedia presentation. This activity is primarily student-oriented rather than teacher-oriented in that the students will be selecting what animals they want to research and what materials they want to use in creating their report. The teacher will give some basic requirements and guidelines to ensure that students are on task.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Information Skills, English Language Arts, and Computer Technology Skills); By Amy Edwards.

Positively Poetry: Part 6: Students will be learning about and writing limericks. Since limericks follow a strict rhyming pattern and word count, the students will work in partners to create their own limericks.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Information Skills, English Language Arts, and Computer Technology Skills); By Maribeth Warren, Pam Purifoy, and Tracy Dagenhart.

All about our town: Using brochures to teach informational writing: In this lesson, students create brochures that explore their towns and the landmarks, symbols, and people that make them unique places to live. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Collaborative stories 2: Revising: Engages students in a group-revising activity. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Color burst: Students gain experience in asking questions and conducting inquiry by exploring the separation of colors in water and other solvents. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Color Poems--Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting: Students use their five senses as a prewriting tool to guide their poetry writing. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Creating comic strips: Students use comic strips to explore how style, point of view, setting, plot, and summary, is communicated not only through words, but through illustrations. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts); Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Dear Librarian: Writing a persuasive letter: Inspired by the actions in Beverly Cleary’s book Emily’s Runaway Imagination, in this lesson plan, students write to their school librarian, requesting that a specific text be added to the library collection. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

The garden: In this lesson, from Xpeditions, students write promotions for television news stories based on the different sections of Xpedition Hall's virtual exhibit, "The Garden". (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts); Provider: National Geographic

Go west: Imagining the Oregon Trail: Students compare imagined travel experiences of their own with the actual experiences of 19th-century pioneers. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies); Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

Graphing plot and character in a novel: This lesson uses The Watsons Go To Birmingham—1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis to introduce plot sequence and the importance of symbolism. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

How-to writing: Motivating students to write for a real purpose: In this lesson, students write “how-to” essays for a specific audience. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Pioneer America: Pioneer living: After reading about pioneers in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie, students conduct independent research on one aspect of pioneer life. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts, Theatre Arts Education, Social Studies, and Computer Technology Skills); Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Pourquoi stories: Creating tales to tell why: Students are introduced to pourquoi stories (stories and folktales that explain how or why something exists) and work in cooperative groups to write their own stories. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Teaching the compare and contrast essay through modeling: Students and teacher together create the first half of a draft of a comparison and contrast essay. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

To, too, or two: Developing an understanding of homophones: This ReadWriteThink lesson focuses on the “word demons” that can complicate spelling and vocabulary. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Using picture books to teach plot development and conflict resolution: This lesson invites students to examine the craft of developing a story’s plot and resolution of a story’s conflict through focused experiences with picture books. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

What a character!: Students analyze how a character's personality traits, actions, and motives influence the plot of a story. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts and Theatre Arts Education); Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

What's in a mystery? Exploring and identifying mystery elements: In this lesson, students identify the characteristics of mystery writing in class discussions, outline a mystery story using a graphic organizer, write and revise a mystery story on their own, and edit each other's work. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

When I was young: Students learn about how history has been preserved through oral storytelling. Students interview a family or community member to find out what life was like when they were young, and share this person's story with the class. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts); Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts