Standard Course of Study :: English Language Arts

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North Carolina Regional Travel Brochure: The students will cooperatively design travel brochures that describe major physical and cultural characteristics of the regions in North Carolina.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts, Visual Arts Education, Social Studies, and Computer Technology Skills); By Deborah Harrell.

Shells and more: This activity involves identifying objects from the beach using a guide book and then placing the information into a prepared table.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Science); By Shelli Luna.

Site robbers: Students will use an interview with a Native American to write a newspaper article or letter that expresses concern about robbing archaeological sites.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies)

Storytelling with Cherokee Folktales: This is a two day lesson pertaining to telling Cherokee Folktales. This lesson can be modified and used with any folktale.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts); By Ricky Hamilton.

Truth or Care? Saving Shiloh: The students will be able to explain the importance of responsible citizenship and identify ways they can participate in civic affairs after reading the novel Shiloh and completing research of their own on animal abuse. Through this research, they will be responsible for gathering facts to support their stances on the dilemma Marty faces when deciding whether to return Shiloh to his owner, or secretly keep him in order for him to be safe. Students will have real-world experience when they create and are reponsible for caring for their own pet.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts, Social Studies, and English Language Development); By Leah Shomaker and Mary Shomaker.

Be a reading detective: Finding similarities and differences in ideas: In this lesson, students use graphic organizers and clue words to compare and contrast items in nonfiction writing. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Blending fiction and nonfiction to improve comprehension and writing skills: Introduces text sets to increase student interest in and understanding of content area material and to develop critical writing skills. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–6 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Book clubs: Reading for fun: In this lesson, small groups of students create, organize, and run book clubs in order to promote reading for fun. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Comparing Tales through Performance: Students identify the similarities and differences between a traditional and a contemporary version of The Three Little Pigs. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–4 English Language Arts); Provider: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Daily book boost: Each day at the end of their independent reading time, students give “book boosts,” one-minute raves about books they’ve read. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

A daily DEAR program: Drop everything and read!: This lesson gives teachers the tools necessary to implement a DEAR-Drop Everything and Read program in their class. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Escaping slavery: “Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt”: Using the picture book Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt, students create a problems/solutions/events chart to help them understand the relationships between Clara's problems and how she solves them. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Exploring how section headings support understanding of expository texts: Provides a model, practice, and assessment in the sorting and categorizing of main concepts through the awareness and understanding of section headings. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

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

Guided comprehension: Summarizing using the QuIP strategy: Introduces students to the comprehension strategy of summarizing. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

How do leopard seals hunt?: In this lesson from Xpeditions, students brainstorm the hunting behaviors of animals in general and leopard seals in particular and read some basic information about leopard seals. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Science and English Language Arts); Provider: National Geographic

I'm gonna sit right down and write someone a letter: Students will read letters from famous people and discuss the conventions, uses, and power of letter writing. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Information Skills, English Language Arts, and Social Studies); Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

Icebergs and penguins: In this lesson from Xpeditions, students read a National Geographic News article about the impact of ice building on penguin breeding in Antarctica. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Science and English Language Arts); Provider: National Geographic

Inferring how and why characters change: This lesson uses a think-aloud procedure to model how to infer character traits and recognize a character's growth across a text. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE