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- Learn new words using context
- With guided practice students will use context clues to determine meaning of unfamiliar words in short passages. When students have completed the practice activities, they will read a newspaper or magazine article, picking out unfamiliar words and using context clues to decide what the word means. As a group activity they will share the article, the words, and their meanings with the class.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–8 English Language Arts)
- By Betty DeLuca.
- Vocabulary surprise
- This lesson focuses on prediction skills and vocabulary development. Students predict what is in a box from information they are given. In order to determine the contents of the box, vocabulary must be deciphered through contextual meaning. The activity idea could be used in all areas with a few modifications. Science would be easily integrated. Cooperative learning is also used.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer J. Murphy.
- Which word is it?
- Students will determine the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary words using Context Clues, a dictionary, and structural analysis within a game format.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- By Donna Harkey.
- Archaeological context
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 1.5
- In their study of context, students will use a game and a discussion to demonstrate the importance of artifacts in context for learning about past people.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- Understanding vocabulary in their own terms
- This lesson focuses on vocabulary development. Students will work together in small groups to identify at least three to four unknown vocabulary words in a given passage. Vocabulary meanings will be learned through contextual means, previous knowledge and dictionary use. Students will then find a relevant way to illustrate the meaning of the word so that others can understand easily.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts)
- By Christa Schneider.
- Night of the Twisters
- Reading strategies are used to introduce a literary work.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts)
- By Authurice Mitchell.
- Cross-checking: An early reading strategy
- Beginning readers need to learn how to bring together two sources of information simultaneously. They have to think about what would make sense and think about letters/sounds; cross-checking. Most children prefer to do one or the other, but not both. Therefore, some children guess something that is sensible but ignore the visual (letter/sound) and others guess something which is close to the visual but makes no sense in the sentence. This activity will demonstrate how to cross check.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Jane Kate Blackmon.
- Vowel, consonant, vowel your way to better reading
- This is a lesson for Secondary Special Education Teachers who teach exceptional children who are reading at the second grade level. Students will learn decoding patterns using vowels and consonants to divide words into syllables in order to sound out the word.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts)
- By Julie Wilson.
- 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.
- The Learning Page: Getting started with primary sources
- In American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide, page 5
- Introduces a primary sources guide made available through the Library of Congress's The Learning Page. You'll also get an introduction to some of the LOC's lessons that will help your students use primary source materials.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- Portrait of a reader: Ben
- In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 3.2
- A fourth-grade teacher uses running records to uncover individual strengths and needs in a new student's reading.
- By Jeanne Gunther.
- Reading photographs
- A picture is worth a thousand words — but which words? Questions can help students decode, interpret, and understand photographs thoughtfully and meaningfully.
- Format: article
- By Melissa Thibault and David Walbert.
- The student pathfinder
- By creating pathfinders, students not only learn to manage time and produce a higher quality research project, but they also develop twenty-first century learning skills.
- By Melissa Thibault.
- A Christmas Carol chronology
- Christmas Carol Chronology, based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, provides students with an opportunity to develop comprehension by listing plot developments and arranging them sequentially. This lesson begins with cooperative learning groups and ends with an individual manipulative activity of cutting and pasting strips of events in chronological order.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- By Judy Gibbs.
- Cotton mills from differing perspectives: Critically analyzing primary documents
- In this lesson, students will read two primary source documents: a 1909 pamphlet exposing the use of child labor in the cotton mills of North Carolina, and a weekly newsletter published by the mill companies. Students will also listen to oral history excerpts from mill workers to gain a third perspective. In a critical analysis, students will identify the audiences for both documents, speculate on the motivations of their authors, and examine the historical importance of each document.
- Format: lesson plan
- By Dayna Durbin Gleaves.
- Jackie Robinson taught us more than baseball
- After determining student knowledge about Jackie Robinson, the teacher/counselor reads "Teammates" by Peter Golenbock to fifth graders. The teacher/counselor then divides students into four groups to work cooperatively on questions. Groups select leaders and recorders and each group leader presents answers to the whole class. The teacher/counselor ends the activity with a question that individual students will respond to in writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 English Language Arts, Guidance, and Social Studies)
- By Jan Huggins.
- Computer literacy in the ESL classroom: An introduction to formatting
- Word processing software is used to create and print documents. English as a second language middle school students (with an intermediate level of English proficiency) will be introduced to the advantages of word processing with emphasis on text formatting features in Microsoft Works. Both independent and group work is included in the activities.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Computer/Technology Skills)
- By Milena Dolezel.
- Tree-ring dating
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.5
- In their study of dendrochronology, students use activity sheets and a discussion to apply principles of dendrochronology to determine a tree's age and to recognize climatic variation. They will also analyze and experience how archaeologists can sometimes use tree rings to date archaeological evidence and study past climates.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Science)
- The process of archaeology
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.11
- Archaeologists use several processes to address questions about the past. They may gather new data by conducting regional surveys to locate archaeological sites. Occasionally sites are partially or completely excavated to address specific research questions or to salvage information prior to disturbance by a development project. All data recovered are thoroughly analyzed following scientific inquiry procedures before conclusions are reached.
- Format: article
- The pathfinders
- In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.2
- An essay covering the pathfinders of the Paleoindian Period. Learn about the trek across Beringia and the lifeways of these early American Indians.
