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- 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.
- 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.
- Word closet
- Word Closets give students an additional classroom resource for “researching” the correct spelling of words to use in their daily writing. Word Closets are particularly focused toward concept words, season words, and favorite words that students like to use in their writing but may need help with spelling.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Lesson plans for teaching conventions
- A collection of LEARN NC's lesson plans for teaching conventions, the fifth of the five features of effective writing.
- Format: bibliography/help
- 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.
- Lesson plans for teaching style
- A collection of LEARN NC's lesson plans for teaching style, the fourth of the five features of effective writing.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Wet your kinders' chops on the sound "op"!
- Students will explore the sound “Op” with a reading of Charlie Parker Played Be-Bop by Chris Raschka and a showing of the PBS Between the Lions episode #130 “Be Bop,” which also features the Charlie Parker book and explores the “op” sound.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
- By Dirk Robertson.
- Animals on the move
- Students will choose an animal, draw the animal, write a sentence naming their animal and write a sentence about what their animal can do using inventive as well as conventional spelling.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
- By Anita Baldwin, Ann Loftis, and Genevieve Kiser.
- Spring cinquain poems
- Students will review parts of speech by learning what a cinquain poem is and then writing and typing a Spring cinquain.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer Williams.
- 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 4 English Language Arts)
- By Sarah Ann Parker.
- Photographs: a process guide for students
- Questions to consider when looking at photographs as primary sources.
- By Dan McDowell.
- The long and short of it!
- This lesson will assist children in recognizing and discriminating short and long vowel sounds.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- Self-corrections
- In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 1.5
- Although self-corrections may seem less important as a diagnostic tool than errors, they demonstrate the way in which a reader is working to make sense of a text and allow the teacher a glimpse into the child's thinking. Teachers can identify patterns of a...
- By Jeanne Gunther.
- Portrait of a reader: Rosalie
- In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 3.1
- I was setting up centers for the first day of class, which was still a week away, when Rosalie and her mother entered the classroom to meet me. Rosalie's mother explained that Rosalie was so excited about school and simply could not wait until the official...
- By Jeanne Gunther.
- Diction in Maya Angelou's poem "Remembering"
- The class will annotate and discuss Angelou's poem. Then they will select specific words and complete a webbing that asks them to explore the connotations of the word as well as consider the author's purpose in using it.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Vickie Smith.
- Tennis ball can relay
- Through tennis ball can relays, reading will be integrated into the physical education program. This will be done with instructions written on slips of paper. In relay form, students will pull them out of a tennis ball can one at a time and perform each task.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Healthful Living)
- By Nancy Lee.
- Lesson plans for teaching organization
- A collection of LEARN NC's lesson plans for teaching organization, the second of the five features of effective writing.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Using bilingual dictionaries
- This lesson focuses on learning to use a bilingual dictionary while acquiring first and second language vocabulary about language and grammar.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Second Languages)
- By Carolyn Zuttel.
- Lesson plans for teaching support and elaboration
- A collection of LEARN NC's lesson plans for teaching support and elaboration, the third of the five features of effective writing.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Pattern writing using nouns and adjectives
- In this lesson plan, students will think and write creatively using nouns and adjectives. They will experience all phases of the writing process.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts)
- By Susan S. Craver.
