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- Why miscue analysis?
- In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 2.1
- A holistic view of reading takes into account that "both the reader and the author are equally active in constructing or building meaning." The text available is the "medium through which the author and reader transact."* Teachers...
- By Jeanne Gunther.
- Weather for the day
- In this lesson, students will use previous knowledge and classroom resources to determine current weather conditions and temperature.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Science)
- By Rhonda Hathcock.
- Reading for relevance in literature
- A unit-length instructional plan for using graphic organizers to promote active reading of novels, using The Count of Monte Cristo as an example.
- By Suzanne Micallef.
- Welcome to the New World
- This lesson provides students an opportunity to read and interpret writings of the late 1500's and to transfer the information provided in the writings into a visual medium as a means of understanding and interpretation. The lesson also provides students practice in persuasive techniques.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Barbara Jean.
- Pliny and the Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
- The purpose of this lesson is to use earth science concepts--from volcanology--to explain to students studying the letter of Pliny the Younger to the historian Tacitus how Mt. Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. Students will study and demonstrate mastery of the eruption and its historical impact through a webquest on Pompeii, reading of an articles with appropriate content-area reading support, participation in interactive lecture, writing of a journal entry about life in Pompeii at the time of the eruption, oral presentations on life in Pompeii, reviewing of the grammatical functions of all tenses of participles, and using a rubric to evaluate a video on Pompeii to be used for instruction.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 Second Languages)
- By Gregory King-Owen.
- Cause and effect
- Students will identify and interpret cause and effect as expressed in poetry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts)
- By Rochelle Mullis.
- Exploring the Everglades
- After reading the book, Everglades, by Jean Craighead George, students will apply basic Internet navigation and computer skills to complete a scavenger hunt about the Everglades. As a culmination activity, students will use a word processing program to type a paragraph detailing what they have learned about the Everglades.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Computer/Technology Skills, English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Social Studies)
- By Debbie Fox.
- A road map to reading
- Students struggle with informational texts and websites. Understanding the structure of these texts is essential to efficient information gathering. The "Road Map" is a pre-reading strategy. Like the road map in your atlas, this mapping activity will help students visualize the layout of the text before they start reading so they will have an idea of where they are going (or where to find the information they are looking for) when they start reading. This lesson will also address active-reading strategies students can use to find information for research in print and electronic sources.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts, Information Skills, and Social Studies)
- By Elizabeth Hubbe and Melissa Thibault.
- Teaching Online Courses: Online course syllabus
- Syllabus for the online class Teaching online courses which examines online pedagogy and practical strategies for the online teaching and learning environment.
- North America
- Discover Canada, Mexico, and Central America from this selection of great resources.
- Format: bibliography/help
- The Great Chaucer Challenge: A cooperative learning game to review the Prologue
- This game employs the cooperative learning group format to review thoroughly Chaucer's Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and "The Pardoner's Tale" and "The Nun's Priest's Tale."
- Format: lesson plan (grade 12 English Language Arts)
- By Julie Shaw.
- Reading comprehension: What works?
- Teach reading comprehension in the elementary grades with flexible strategies that connect reading to the real world, promote independence, and keep students engaged.
- By Mary Rogers Rose.
- Does my vote count? Teaching the electoral college
- In Election 2008, page 4.4
- Students will learn about the electoral process and its history through reading, research, and discussion. They will then convene a constitutional convention to debate altering this process.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 Social Studies)
- By David Walbert.
- Lesson plans collection policy
- In Web Publishing & Collaboration Guide, page 1.1
- LEARN NC's policies for accepting lesson plans for publication and managing its collection of lesson plans.
- Format: article/help
- Style
- In The five features of effective writing, page 5
- Style, the fourth Feature of Effective Writing, is what makes an author's writing unique. Here's how to help your students establish a style appropriate to different genres and audiences.
- By Kathleen Cali.
- Get real!
- When teaching computer proficiency to at-risk students, make classroom lessons relevant to their lives and take account of different learning styles.
- By Skip Thibault.
- Effects of civil action
- In this lesson, secondary students will analyze primary source materials to investigate how 4-H clubs made an impact on the home front in completing projects that supported the war effort during World War II. This lesson should be taught at the end of a World War II unit.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 and 10–12 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Perfecting the circle
- See how one teacher reshaped literature circles to fit her middle school classroom.
- By Beth Salyers.
- Making reading passages comprehensible for English language learners
- English language learners can read the same content-area material as their peers, but may need special help. Teachers can make difficult reading comprehensible by building vocabulary, decoding difficult syntax, and teaching background knowledge.
- By Ellen Douglas.
- Paideia
- According to the National Paideia Institute, Paideia (py-dee-a) is from the Greek pais, paidos, which means the upbringing of a child. The Paideia philosophy “celebrates the fundamental notion that...
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
