Standard Course of Study :: English Language Arts

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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.

Christmas Carol Chronology: Christmas Carol Chronology, based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, provides students with an opportunity to develop comprehension by listing plot developments and arranging them sequentially. This lesson begins with cooperative learning groups and ends with an individual manipulative activity of cutting and pasting strips of events in chronological order.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–8 English Language Arts); By Judy Gibbs.

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.

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.

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.

Letters Home: Students will write letters "home" taking on the role of one of the sons of the "Gold Star Mothers" from Union County, NC.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Meg Millard and Pamela Webb.

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.

"So What?" Details: Students will learn that adding details to a piece of writing doesn't make it better if the details are "So What?" details. Details and elaboration should be related to the main idea and should move the story along in an interesting manner.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Stretch It Out: Good writers stretch out the important scenes in a story to make them more interesting to their readers. In this lesson, students will learn to stretch out a scene by adding things that they see, hear, think, and say to others.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Alter egos and more with Avi's "Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?": After reading Avi's Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?, students learn about the history of radio shows, examine scripts, and write their own radio show similar to the scenarios that the characters, Frankie and Mario, perform. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Author study: Improving reading comprehension using inference and comparison: In this lesson, students review several texts by one illustrator/author, practice making inferences about that author, and then check their inferences against the author's online biography. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 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 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

Composing cinquain poems with basic parts of speech: Students learn to compose original cinquain poems in this lesson that follows a unit on parts of speech. (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

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

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