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- Focus in writing
- This brief lesson will help students recognize when a paragraph loses focus and will help them understand the concept of focus.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Peter Bobbe.
- Lesson plans for teaching focus
- A collection of LEARN NC's lesson plans for teaching focus, the first of the five features of effective writing.
- Format: bibliography/help
- The five features of effective writing
- The five Features of Effective Writing — focus, organization, support and elaboration, style, and conventions — are a valuable tool for understanding good writing and organizing your writing instruction. By teaching these features, you can help your students become more effective writers in any genre, at any level, and make your writing instruction easier to manage at the same time. This series of articles, written with the support of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, will show you how.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Photo comparison: Focus on geography
- A worksheet for students to use when comparing photographs, focusing on information about the population of the region in which they were taken.
- Format: worksheet
- By Eric Eaton.
- You can't tell it all!: Narrowing the focus of personal narratives
- Students will learn to focus their personal narratives on just one main event by listing events on a topic and identifying one main event to write about. Focusing their personal narratives on one main event helps students to write about only the important things and leave out events and details that are not related to the main event.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- About the five features of effective writing
- An explanation of the "Five Features of Effective Writing" model (focus, organization, support and elaboration, style, and conventions) with links to detailed articles, lesson plans, and exemplars of student writing.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Posing a scenario and "looping" to provide focus in a cause/effect essay
- Most of us are familiar with the idea that in narratives a writer chooses a “hot spot” or critical incident to serve as the focus of the work. Teachers of expository writing also must assist students in finding the “hot spot” or focus of their essays. Use this exercise to help student focus on one aspect of the essay.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Margaret Ryan.
- Focus
- In The five features of effective writing, page 2
- Focus, the first Feature of Effective Writing, is the "so what?" in a piece of writing. This article will help you teach students to stay on topic.
- By Kathleen Cali.
- The taste of relevance
- Students will learn the importance of selecting relevant details by picking the right toppings for an ice cream sundae. This activity gives the students a concrete visual memory of what good details are.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Writing exemplars (high school)
- Samples of varying levels of performance on different types of writing assignments by high school students, with comments based on the five Features of Effective Writing: focus, organization, support and elaboration, style, and conventions.
- Format: tutorial
- 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.
- Narrowing the focus: What's the main event?
- In this lesson, students will learn how to narrow the focus of their personal narrative down to one main event by selecting a more specific title. Good stories are focused on one topic or main event. The reader should be able to tell the most important thing that the story is about. Instead of writing a story about a whole vacation that describes many events, it is a good strategy to write a story about one thing that happened on the vacation-one main event.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- About the English Language Development Standard Course of Study
- An introduction to the North Carolina curriculum for English language learners, including an explanation of the domains and proficiency levels of language acquisition.
- Format: article/help
- 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
- American Memory: North Carolina educator's guide
- Each article in this series features an in-depth look at one aspect of the Library of Congress' American Memory with a special focus on North Carolina materials.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Mandarin Chinese II | 中文课程2
- Part two of an online textbook for learning Mandarin Chinese.
- Format: book (multiple pages)
- Escapes
- This lesson will help students become more understanding of cultural differences. Students will analyze the theme of escape in two poems. They will recognize and record literary elements found in the poems and connect the poems to life in a meaningful way.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Mary Lou Faircloth.
- "So what?" details
- Students will learn that adding details to a piece of writing doesn't make it better if the details are "So What?" details. Details and elaboration should be related to the main idea and should move the story along in an interesting manner.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Focus activity using RAFT
- Better writing requires consideration of RAFT: Role, Audience, Format and Topic.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Kathleen Bost and Leigh Ann Webb.
- Grassy bald with spruce and rhododendron
- In Roan Mountain Highlands, page 10
- Figure 8 shows the grassy bald at the crest of the Roan with spruce-fir forest and rhododendron. Figure 8 also signals a change in this fieldtrip's focus from geology to ecology. The grassy bald mystery deepens with views like the one shown here. The bald...
- By Jennifer Godwin-Wyer and Dirk Frankenberg.
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