Standard Course of Study :: English Language Arts

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Descriptive Writing Using Landscape Scenes: This lesson focuses on the descriptive writing process through the use of landscape scenes, the Paragraph Writing Strategy from the University of Kansas Institute for Research in Learning, and the 4MAT Instructional Model.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–7 English Language Arts); By Rosemary Reichstetter.

Narrowing the Focus: What's the Main Event?: In this lesson, students will learn how to narrow the focus of their personal narrative down to one main event by selecting a more specific title. Good stories are focused on one topic or main event. The reader should be able to tell the most important thing that the story is about. Instead of writing a story about a whole vacation that describes many events, it is a good strategy to write a story about one thing that happened on the vacation-one main event.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

North Carolina American Indian Stories: In this lesson students will select and read stories from some of the North Carolina American Indian tribes. They will compare and contrast two stories of their choice and complete a Venn diagram. Students will use the information on the Venn diagram to write three paragraphs. After reading several American Indian tales or legends, students will then create their own legend using the narrative writing process.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Janice Gardner.

What's the Point? A Lesson on Point of View: After reading Good Dog, Carl by Alexandra Day students will write the story from a chosen character's point of view. This lesson can be used with other wordless picture books.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Computer Technology Skills); By Eileen Carter and Tracey Casto.

Where Do I Begin?: Picking a good beginning helps you to focus your story on just one main event. In this lesson students will learn how to pick a good beginning for their personal narratives.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Writing a Ghost Story/ Mystery: Building upon the students' knowledge base of Blackbeard the Pirate, the numerous shipwrecks off of the N.C. coast, myths, and legends of the Carolinas, and/or The Lost Colony, students will write a ghost story or mystery narrative of their own.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By laura ritchie.

You Can't Tell It All!: Narrowing the Focus of Personal Narratives: Students will learn to focus their personal narratives on just one main event by listing events on a topic and identifying one main event to write about. Focusing their personal narratives on one main event helps students to write about only the important things and leave out events and details that are not related to the main event.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

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

Buzz! Whiz! Bang! Using comic books to teach onomatopoeia: This lesson uses comic strips to introduce students to onomatopoeia, words that imitate the natural sound associated with an action or an object. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

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

Comics in the classroom as an introduction to genre study: Students explore a variety of comic strips and discuss the different components and conventions of them. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Comics in the classroom as an introduction to narrative structure: Students examine the plot and narrative structure of a story through the use of comic strip frames. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Creating a classroom newspaper: Students write authentic newspaper stories. Various aspects of newspapers are covered, including parts of a newspaper, writing an article, online newspapers, newspaper reading habits, and layout and design techniques. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 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

Dancing minds and shouting smiles: Teaching personification through poetry: In this lesson, students learn about personification by reading and discussing poems by Emily Dickinson, William Blake, and Langston Hughes. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Examining plot conflict through a comparison/contrast essay: In this lesson, students identify the characteristics of conflict using picture books. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 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

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

Leading to great places in the elementary classroom: This lesson examines types of leads in promininent children's literature and asks students to try their own hand at writing leads. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

My family traditions: A class book and a potluck lunch: In this lesson, students read a bilingual children’s book and create a class book, which includes their artwork, information about their ancestral countries, descriptions of their own unique family traditions, and family recipes. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE