LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Goal 4

The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.

Objective 4.04

Select a self-evaluated composition for publication and justify rationale for selection.

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Unwinding a circular plot: Prediction strategies in reading and writing
This ReadWriteThink lesson builds on students' existing knowledge of plot structure and of cycles in other content areas, and invites students to use a circle plot graphic organizer to explore the structure of this type of story. The cyclical nature of... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink
Searching for gold: A collaborative inquiry project
Students develop inquiry skills and content area knowledge in this collaborative project that focuses on the Gold Rush. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Once upon a time rethought: Writing fractured fairy tales
In this lesson, students use the characteristics of a known tale and change one literary elements to create a new, fractured fairy tale, which includes a different set of characters, has a new setting, or includes a changed conflict or resolution. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Declare the causes: The Declaration of Independence
Introduces students to the development of the Declaration of Indepedence as both an historical process and a writing process through the use of role play and creative writing. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
Provided by: National Endowment for the Humanities
Creating a classroom newspaper
In this lesson from ReadWriteThink, 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 3–5 English Language Arts)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink
Can you convince me?: Developing persuasive writing
Students are engaged in developing their skills of persuasion in a classroom game that introduces students to the basic concepts of lobbying for something that is important to them (or that they want) and making persuasive arguments. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts)
Provided by: IRA/NCTE
Alliteration all around
The teacher introduces students to alliteration using one of several picture books by Pamela Duncan Edwards. After hearing techniques used by the author during a read-aloud, students attempt to define alliteration. Then the teacher chooses one passage to... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink