Standard Course of Study :: English Language Arts

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"I Spy": Using Adjectives and Descriptive Phrases: Students will review definitions for adjectives, learn and practice sensory adjectives and imagery, and use adjectives and descriptive phrases in writing a paragraph and/or story.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By Elizabeth Hutchens.

Action Chains: Students learn to elaborate on an event in a narrative by expanding their sentences into action chains. Expanding single actions into an action chain provides the reader with a more detailed picture of an event in a narrative.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Adding Emotions to Your Story: One way to make stories even better is to show emotions, and not just tell them. In this lesson, students will use actions, gestures, and facial expressions to act out emotions.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Appositive Action: Appositives are descriptive phrases, set off by commas, that modify a noun or noun phrase. Using appositives helps writers create sentences that are smoother and less choppy. In this lesson, students will learn to combine 2 or more descriptive sentences and action sentences into one sentence with an appositive phrase.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Awesome Action Words: Good writers use precise verbs to make stories interesting and vivid. In this lesson, students will learn to replace boring, redundant, generic verbs with more precise “Awesome Action Words.”; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Description as Mind Control: Using Details to Help Readers Visualize Your Story: Good writers help their readers visualize their stories by including vivid details. Students will listen to passages from Gary Paulsen's novel Hatchet, draw one of the images from the passage, and identify which details Paulsen uses to create these images.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Discovering Just the Right Word: Precise word choice helps show the reader a story and not just tell a story. The purpose of this series of lessons is to help students improve their writing style by strengthening word choice at the word and sentence level by adding adverbs, precise verbs, and specific nouns.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Exciting Narrative Endings: This lesson emphasizes the importance of a strong ending for a narrative essay and
teaches students specific items to include in their endings.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts); By Ann Jolly.

First Draft/Final Draft: Students will compare paragraphs with and without elaboration and descriptive details. They will learn how to revise their own writing by adding descriptive details such as adjectives, adverbs, concrete nouns, and precise verbs.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Jazzy Sentences: This is an interesting activity to help students jazz up or make their sentences more interesting by adding adjectives, adverbs, more vibrant verbs, and descriptive nouns.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By Helen Potts.

More Vivid Word Choices-Said Is Dead: The students will expand their vocabulary and learn synonymns for overused words. By using the story Chicken Little by Stephen Kellog, students will see how an acclaimed author uses many different words for "said."; Format: lesson plan (grade 1–4 English Language Arts); By Linda Justice.

Narrative Writing - Using exact words: The learner will recognize exact verbs in literature and then use more exact verbs when writing a narrative.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By Georgette Rush.

Plain Polly: Adding relevant details: This instructional technique creates a lasting visual image of how relevant details help develop a character and a focus. Students learn to add only details that are related to the main idea of a “Plain Polly” stick figure. These mascots serve as reminders to students to be selective with the details they use to support their main idea.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

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.

Search for Synonyms: A Thesaurus Lesson: Students will expand their vocabulary and learn the advantages of using a Thesaurus. Students will edit and enrich personal writing samples using both print and online Thesauri.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills); By Erin Bradfeldt and Joan Milliken.

Sentence Carousel: Adjectives, adverbs, and precise language help construct descriptive sentences. In this lesson, students will learn to construct more elaborate sentences that will enliven their writing; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Sentence Combining: This lesson is designed for students who write short choppy sentences. Students will learn to combine short choppy sentences that develop their ideas and involve the reader in the action of the story.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Sentence Elaboration with Prepositional Phrases: This lesson is designed for students who write short choppy sentences. In this lesson, students will learn how to write more elaborated, complex sentences by adding prepositional phrases and clauses.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Show, Don't Tell: Using Action Words: To strengthen their writing and make it livelier, students will learn to use action words to show how their characters feel.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Slow Motion Replay: Students will learn to use slow motion replay of a moment in a narrative to make it easier for the reader to feel that he or she is actually experiencing the event.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.