Standard Course of Study :: English Language Arts

Goal 4

The learner will continue to refine critical thinking skills and create criteria to evaluate print and non-print materials.

Analyze and develop (with limited assistance) and apply appropriate criteria to evaluate the quality of the communication by:

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GIST: A summarizing strategy for use in any content area: This lesson supports comprehension and summarizing skills by engaging students in reading and identifying the “5Ws and the H” in newspaper articles. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Fueling the fires of American industrialization: Students examine the role wood played in the American Industrial Revolution. By calculating how much wood was consumed by U.S. railroads before and after the invention of wood preservatives, students will observe the connection between technology and forest... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Social Studies); Provided by: Forest History Society

Freedom of speech and automatic language: Examining the Pledge of Allegiance: Students explore rote learning and their own right to freedom of speech by examining the Pledge of Allegiance from a historical and personal perspective (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Focusing reader response through vocabulary analysis: After reading The Hobbit, students compile a list of words associated with details about the novel. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Finding the science behind science fiction through paired readings: In this lesson, students explore the genre of science fiction, while learning more about the science integrated into the plot of the story using nonfiction texts and resources. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Finding figurative language in “The Phantom Tollbooth”: This lesson provides hands-on differentiated instruction by guiding students to search for the literal definitions of figurative language using the Internet. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Expository escapade-Detective's handbook: In this lesson, students combine reading the detective fiction genre with expository writing. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Exploring literacy in cyberspace: This ReadWriteThink lesson invites students to transfer the analytical skills that they commonly use when reading traditional print texts, along with some other strategies, to navigate and read online texts. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Don't be fooled by a photograph: In this Xpeditions lesson, students will study images that were altered digitally to create a desired effect. Students will discuss how a photograph conveys information, and how changing that photograph can change its message. This lesson plan is based... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Social Studies); Provided by: Xpeditions

Critical media literacy: Commercial advertising: Conducting an evaluation of television and magazine advertisements, students critique the effect mass media has on American culture. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 7–8 English Language Arts); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Cooking up descriptive language: Designing restaurant menus: In this lesson students explore the genre of menus by analyzing existing menus from local restaurants and creating their own original menus. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Comic makeovers: Examining race, class, ethnicity, and gender in the media: In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore representations of race, class, ethnicity, and gender by analyzing comics over a two-week period and then re-envisioning them with a “comic character makeover.” (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 8–9 English Language Arts); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Civil War Music: In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students use the Internet as a resource to compare and contrast Civil War songs of the North and the South. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 5 and 8 English Language Arts, Music Education, and Social Studies); Provided by: The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Book report alternative: Creating a childhood for a character: In this lesson, students examine the character traits of an adult character in a book they have read, create a childhood for the character, and describe that childhood in the form of a short story, journal entry, or time capsule letter. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Battling for liberty: Tecumseh's and Patrick Henry's language of resistance: This lesson extends the study of Patrick Henry's “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech to demonstrate the ways Native Americans also resisted oppression through rhetoric and action. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

Authentic persuasive writing to promote summer reading: Invites students to create brochures and flyers that suggest books and genres to explore during the summer months. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 8–9 English Language Arts); Provided by: IRA/NCTE

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