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- A writing process
- This edition presents a writing process through discussion, examples, and suggested resources to help teachers guide students through writing assignments.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Reading comprehension and English language learners
- Teaching reading comprehension and helping English language learners are the responsibility of every teacher, but they are also within the abilities of every teacher. These articles provide strategies for building content-area reading comprehension before, during, and after reading that can help English language learners — and all learners.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Mother Goose in use: Rhymes that teach
- This collection of kindergarten lesson plans uses classic nursery rhymes to teach curriculum objectives in math, English language arts, science, and healthful living.
- Format: (multiple pages)
- 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)
- CareerStart lessons: Grade eight
- This collection of lessons aligns the eighth grade curriculum in math, science, English language arts, and social studies with potential career opportunities.
- Format: (multiple pages)
- Rethinking Reports
- Creative research-based assignments provide alternatives to the President Report, Animal Report, and Famous Person Report that ask students to think about old topics in new ways, work collaboratively, and develop products that support a variety of learning styles.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Arts of persuasion
- Strategies for teaching middle school students to think critically, analyze persuasive arguments, and use speaking and writing to persuade others.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Where English and history meet: A collaboration guide
- Strategically plan a collaborative unit and learn how to overcome those everyday obstacles that prevent success. This guide is accompanied by four lesson plans to help you put collaboration into practice.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Women's ACC Basketball Tournament School Day curriculum
- Four collections of basketball-based units for grades K–8 teach all areas of the curriculum through the lens of the 2010 Women's ACC Basketball Tournament.
- Format: activity
- CareerStart lessons: Grade seven
- This collection of lessons aligns the seventh grade curriculum in math, science, English language arts, and social studies with potential career opportunities.
- Format: (multiple pages)
- Three Billy Goats Gruff
- Students will examine language in three different versions of the traditional "Gruff" tale. These will be compared and contrasted through Venn diagrams. Each text will be introduced, examined, and contrasted in a different lesson.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Sandra Doyle.
- Figurative language: Metaphor
- This lesson is a part of a unit on poetry and figurative language. It is designed to teach students the characteristics of metaphor within the context of poetry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 English Language Arts)
- By Nancy Meyers.
- Lesson Planning for English Language Learners Using the WIDA/ELP Standards: Online course syllabus
- Syllabus for Lesson Planning for English Language Learners Using the WIDA/ELP Standards, a course that provides ESL and regular K-12 classroom teachers an opportunity to plan lessons using the new NC Standard Course of Study for Limited English Proficient students known as the WIDA/ELP Standards.
- Format: syllabus
- Figurative language: Similes
- Students will define and identify similes as well as evaluate the use of similes in the poem, "The Base Stealer" by Robert Francis.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts)
- By Kimberly Conville.
- Writing a fish book: Number and color details
- Students will learn and write color words and number words.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Stephanie Phelps.
- Understanding audience
- This activity is designed to help students identify their audience and determine appropriate language use based on the audience.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Bonnie Mcmurray and Julie Joslin.
- 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.
- Job interviews: Focus on details
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade seven, page 1.5
- In this lesson for grade seven, students will develop questions and answers for hypothetical job interviews, and will perform job interview skits for the class.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Anissia Jenkins.Adapted by Kenyatta Bennett and Sonya Rexrode.
- Learning to Read
- Young children love to be read to and look forward to reading themselves. This sampling of resources provide activities that are fun and stimulate interest in reading.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Similes
- "The Talking Eggs" by Robert San Souci is used to introduce and illustrate an author's use of language to paint a picture in the reader's mind. Students will draw a picture to show what this author meant, create similes to describe themselves, and finally use a simile in their next story in Writer's Workshop.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts)
- By jennifer lettieri.
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