Standard Course of Study :: English Language Arts

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The Wish Giver : Cause and Effect: Through a discussion of the characters in the novel The Wish Giver, by Bill Brittain, the teacher will teach the students to identify and analyze the cause/effect relationship and its importance in reading comprehension.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts); By Becky Ellzey.

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.

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.

Grammar Scramblers, Spreadsheets, and Parts of Speech: Students use and create Grammar Scramblers with a spreadsheet in order to practice identifying and using parts of speech in a fun way.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–9 English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills); By Tom Munk.

Meanwhile - Transition Words that Connect Ideas: Students will identify transition words in picturebooks that they can use in their own writing. Transition words are the glue that holds sentences and paragraphs together. They signal that this is a new part of the story.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

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.

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.

Transition Words and Phrases: Students will learn to combine sentences using two kinds of transition words: time transitions and thought (logical) transitions. Transition words link related ideas and hold them together. They can help the parts of a narrative to be coherent or work together to tell the story. Coherence means all parts of a narrative link together to move the story along. Think of transition words as the glue that holds a story together. Using transition words helps avoid the "Listing" problem in stories.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 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

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); 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

Engaging students in a collaborative exploration of the “Gettysburg Address”: This lesson invites groups of students to learn more about the historical significance of President Abraham Lincoln's famous speech, the “Gettysburg Address” as well as the time period and people involved. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Our classroom: Writing an owner's manual: This lesson helps to establish a sense of community with students collaboratively writing an “owner’s manual” that describes expectations and guidelines for the classroom. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Playing with prepositions through poetry: Students have the opportunity to play with language, particularly prepositions, through the literature of Ruth Heller. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Traveling terrain: Comprehending nonfiction text on the web: This lesson teaches specific skills to students in order to improve their comprehension of nonfiction text found in website format. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Computer Technology Skills and English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Who's got mail? Using literature to promote authentic letter writing: This brief activity uses literature and shared writing to teach letter-writing format and promote authentic letter writing. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE