LEARN NC: Search Results

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.

Awesome action words: Good writers use precise verbs to make stories interesting and vivid. In this lesson, students will learn to replace boring, redundant, generic verbs with more precise “Awesome Action Words.”; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts and English Language Development); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Cause and effect: Students will identify and interpret cause and effect as expressed in poetry.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By Rochelle Mullis.

Discovering just the right word: Precise word choice helps show the reader a story and not just tell a story. The purpose of this series of lessons is to help students improve their writing style by strengthening word choice at the word and sentence level by adding adverbs, precise verbs, and specific nouns.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Here comes the circus: Boys and girls of all ages love the Circus. This is a lesson from an integrated unit. In this lesson, students will be introduced to the Kindergarten level words from the Dolch Word List.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts); By Penny Stafford.

"I Spy": Using adjectives and descriptive phrases: Students will review definitions for adjectives, learn and practice sensory adjectives and imagery, and use adjectives and descriptive phrases in writing a paragraph and/or story.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By Elizabeth Hutchens.

Jazzy sentences: This is an interesting activity to help students jazz up or make their sentences more interesting by adding adjectives, adverbs, more vibrant verbs, and descriptive nouns.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By Helen Potts.

Let's become chefs!: The following is designed to teach students the characteristics of a recipe. The characteristics to be taught about this genre are: the step-by-step directions, ingredient words and numerical measures.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By Sarah Ann Parker.

Let's hunt for vivid vocabulary!: This activity will be used to encourage students to focus on using an enriched vocabulary. During an oral reading of the book A Bad Case of Stripes, the students will search and identify various nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, dialogue tags, and transition words.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By Susan Byrd.

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.

More vivid word choices: Said is dead: The students will expand their vocabulary and learn synonyms for overused words. By using the story Chicken Little by Stephen Kellogg, students will see how an acclaimed author uses many different words for "said."; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts); By Linda Justice.

Narrative writing: Using exact words: The learner will recognize exact verbs in literature and then use more exact verbs when writing a narrative.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By Georgette Rush.

Plain Polly: Adding relevant details: This instructional technique creates a lasting visual image of how relevant details help develop a character and a focus. Students learn to add only details that are related to the main idea of a “Plain Polly” stick figure. These mascots serve as reminders to students to be selective with the details they use to support their main idea.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Rest in peace, dead words!: “Dead words,” by my definition, are words students “use to death” in their writing samples. As Language Arts teachers, we can generate a list of such words a mile long. Examples would include: pretty, nice, bad, a lot, and good. This cooperative learning activity is designed to eliminate those repetitious words by providing students with a word bank/wall they can refer to when given a writing assignment.; Format: lesson plan (grade 7 English Language Arts); By Cynthia Cook.

Search for synonyms: A thesaurus lesson: Students will expand their vocabulary and learn the advantages of using a thesaurus. Students will edit and enrich personal writing samples using both print and online thesauri.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts); By Erin Bradfeldt and Joan Milliken.

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.

Synonym word bags: The purpose of Word Bags is to give students a resource for finding synonyms for overused words that they use in their writing on a daily basis. Students will fill Word Bags with synonyms for frequently used words.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 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 4–5 English Language Arts); By DPI Writing Strategies.

Using different versions of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas": This lesson allows the teacher to read different versions of this classic in accents indigenous to certain cultures and then provides a writing lesson for students to write their own version of "'Twas the Night" for their school!; Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts); By Dirk Robertson.

"We the People": Students will gain a better understanding of the U.S. Constitution by exploring the language of the Constitution.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Karen Creech, Terri Hodges, Megan Lawson, and Mary Ostwalt.

More results: page 1, 2 | next

LEARN NC