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- Text selection
- In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 1.3
- Finding the instructional level Texts selected for running records should challenge a student sufficiently that he or she makes some errors for the student to analyze, but not enough that he or she becomes frustrated. This level is called the instructional...
- By Jeanne Gunther.
- 1869: A report on schools in North Carolina
- In this lesson, students use a guided reading to look at a report on the status of education in North Carolina in 1869, and discuss the reasons given then for why the Governor and Legislature should support educating North Carolina's children. They are provided an opportunity to compare and contrast the 1869 document against their own ideas about the civic duty to attend school through age sixteen, and its relative value to the state and the country.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 Social Studies)
- By Victoria Schaefer.
- Plantation life in the 1840s: A slave's description
- This lesson introduces students to a description of life on the plantation and the cultivation of cotton from the perspective of a slave. It focuses on the use of slave narratives made available by the Documenting the American South collection.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By John Schaefer and Victoria Schaefer.
- Details and sequencing
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.7
- This lesson for grade six will introduce students to careers in environmental protection as it teaches them to identify details and sequence in a non-fiction reading passage.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- 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.
- Lunsford Lane: A slave in North Carolina who buys his freedom
- In this lesson plan, students read a primary source document to learn about the life of Lunsford Lane, a slave who worked in the city of Raleigh, North Carolina. Students answer questions about Lane based on his memoir to help them understand the details of his life.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By John Schaefer and Victoria Schaefer.
- Tarantulas
- Students will read Tarantula by Jenny Feely. Then they will summarize what they have learned about tarantulas by writing descriptive words or phrases on a graphic organizer. Finally, using the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe (or other similar drawing program), students will write sentences about tarantulas and make an illustration.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
- By Jody Shaughnessy.
- Wolves: Comprehending informational texts
- This integrated plan uses non-fiction text and wolves to motivate students with language arts and science. Students will read a nonfiction text and use metacognitive skills of guided reading and KWHL chart to monitor comprehension and extend vocabulary.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts)
- By Amy Vance.
- 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 4–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- World War II at home: Victory Gardens
- Students will learn about home front activities during World War II. Using primary source documents and photographs, students will discover how children their own age participated by growing Victory Gardens. They will design their own gardens and propaganda posters.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Social Studies)
- By Linda Mazzei.
- 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.
- Getting paragraphing down P-A-T
- One way to remember when to indent and begin a new paragraph is when (P) the place changes, (A) the action changes, and (T) the time changes (P-A-T). In this lesson, students will learn how to identify appropriate places to indent new paragraphs in their writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- 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.
- Letters back home: A soldier's perspective on World War I
- World War I traumatized many of the soldiers that participated in the war. It had a lasting effect on the political, economic, social, and cultural lives of Americans during the 1920's. By reading letters that one soldier wrote to his family back home. Students can gain insight into the reasons why the “Great War” had such a profound impact on the United States in years following the war.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By George Gray Jr. and Jr..
- 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.
- The Farm Concert
- This lesson teaches basic print awareness along with animal names and sounds through guided reading and the use of a graphic organizer.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Kelly Brandon.
- 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.
- English language learners
- An introduction to LEARN NC's resources for teachers and administrators working with students with limited English proficiency.
- Format: bibliography/help
- The Red-eyed Tree Frog and Hyperstudio
- Students will read The Red-eyed Tree Frog by Joy Cowley then plan and put together a Hyperstudio which retells the story.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Computer/Technology Skills and English Language Arts)
- By Jody Shaughnessy.
- 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.
