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- Civil War Tribune
- This lesson focuses on student creativity along with the writing process. Art is also incorporated in a unique way. Students will use their research skills to complete a creative writing project on the Civil War.
- Author: Aimee Adkins
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5)
- Clarification Writing-What Could I Add to the NC Zoo
- Students will apply their knowledge of clarification writing and address "What Animal or Plant Would You Add to the NC Zoo." Students must research their plant or animal to determine if the zoo ecosystem could support the species. In addition, the student must provide reasons and explanations to support their choice. This is a follow-up activity to a unit of study on ecosystems/biomes.
- Author: Connie Johnson
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5)
- Giving can be fun
- The purpose of this lesson is to incorporate the use of writing in a friendly letter format to foster the spirit of giving and sharing within the classroom. Using word processing, the students will create a friendly letter that will be shared with classmates in the spirit of giving and sharing.
- Author: Sue Hunnicutt
- Format: lesson plan (grades 4–5)
- In the Spirit of... (Museum Visit)
- This is an integrated unit that focuses on masks in cultures as reflections of individual spirits. This lesson focuses on students' observations of masks while visiting a museum.
- Author: Shannon Kelly
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5)
- 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.
- Author: Meg Millard and Pamela Webb
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5)
- North Carolina Cherokee Indians: The Trail of Tears
- In this two week unit, students will study the Cherokee by participating in literature circles, learning about Native American story telling, writing a letter to Andrew Jackson to protest against the Creek War, and more.
- Author: Gina Golden
- Format: lesson plan (grades 4–5)
- Super Sportswriters' Camp
- Students will identify the parts of a newspaper sports article in order to plan and write their own sports article.
- Author: Christina O'Connor
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5)
- Alliteration all around
- In this lesson, students are introduced to alliteration through picture books by Pamela Duncan Edwards.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- 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.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5)
- 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.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–6)
- 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.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Can you haiku?
- Students learn the rules and conventions of haiku, study examples by Japanese masters, and create haiku of their own.
- Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- A case for reading: Examining challenged and banned books
- This lesson introduces students to censorship and then invites them to read a challenged or banned book and decide for themselves what should be done with this book at their school by writing a persuasive essay explaining their perspectives.
- Provider: IRA\NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- Color Poems--Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting
- Students use their five senses as a prewriting tool to guide their poetry writing.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- 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.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 4–5)
- 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.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- 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.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- 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.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 4–5)
- Creating classroom community by crafting themed poetry collections
- Students create poetry collections with a back-to-school theme of “getting to know each other.”
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)
- 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.
- Provider: IRA/NCTE
- Format: lesson plan (grades 3–5)