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- Love Letters: Using imagery to convey feelings
- After listening to Arnold Adoff's Love Letters, students will write and share their own love letters. This lesson is especially fun around Valentine's Day.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By Jennifer Reid.
- Instructional assessment: Finding teaching points
- In Ongoing assessment for reading, page 1.8
- Over time, running records can show patterns in student use of cuing systems and self corrections. But individual running records can also be useful in instruction. After each running record, a teacher can choose a teaching point, using the student's...
- By Jeanne Gunther.
- George Washington and Frederick Douglass letters: Recognizing point of view and bias
- In Where English and history meet: A collaboration guide, page 4
- This lesson uses two letters written by famous individuals. Frederick Douglass, a well-known former slave who became a leader of the American abolition movement, escaped from slavery in Maryland to freedom in New York in 1838. George Washington was a large slaveholder in Virginia (as well as the first president of the United States).
- Format: (grade 9 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Karen Cobb Carroll, Ph.D., and NBCT.
- Step right up!
- The students will learn to name an ordered pair for a point and plot positions named by an ordered pair on a large grid located on the classroom floor.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
- By Shelley Dodson.
- 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..
- Itsy, bitsy spider
- The learner will use the words of the fingerplay "The Itsy, Bitsy Spider" to create a book.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
- By JanetD White.
- 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
- Dear Peter Rabbit
- Students will identify formal language and sentence structures in friendly letters. They will use similar formal language and style to create friendly letters to other story book characters.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Caroline Annas, Elizabeth Gibson, and Stephanie Johnson.
- Word family web
- Students play a fun game with spider and fly to build new words using known word families.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Peggy Johnson.
- Describing words: Go Away, Big Green Monster
- The students will use describing words in their writing based on the book Go Away, Big Green Monster while integrating math concepts about shapes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Paula Jennings.
- Everyday, ordinary Olympics
- Students will use a stopwatch to time themselves performing in various events, record data, and then compare and order decimals to determine bronze, silver and gold medal winners.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 Mathematics)
- By Linda Hill-Wise.
- Jelly beans count!
- Children will fill plastic Easter eggs with the correct number of jelly beans. After they complete the entire dozen, they are allowed to keep the ones they get correct.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Ronnia Frazier.
- Families in colonial North Carolina
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.7
- In colonial families, the father had absolute authority over his family, and wives and children were expected to do as they were told. And everyone, even young children, worked to sustain the family.
- Format: article
- By L. Maren Wood.
- Fact versus opinion
- Distinguishing between fact and opinion is important for students to understand. This lesson uses many interesting and concrete examples to help students tell the difference between the two.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 Guidance)
- By Scott Ertl.
- Culturally relevant teaching
- Culturally relevant teaching is a term created by Gloria Ladson-Billings (1994) to describe "a pedagogy that empowers students intellectually, socially, emotionally, and politically by using cultural referents to impart knowledge, skills, and attitudes."
- Format: article
- By Heather Coffey.
- Post-EOG activities: Student products
- In this project, students will become entrepreneurs. They will have a business that makes items with 3-dimensional shapes. They will receive various tasks that will require that they make decisions as any other business owner would have to do.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Mathematics)
- By Geneva Williams.
- The scarlet “A”: Role-play in writing
- This lesson was created to follow a close reading and examination of Nathanial Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. The plan uses a small group format and rotation schedule. The activities created strengthen students' understanding of an author's use of characterization, while reinforcing reading and creative writing skills.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Tonya White.
- Super sportswriters' camp
- Students will identify the parts of a newspaper sports article in order to plan and write their own sports article.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts)
- Eroded land, eroded lives: Agriculture and The Grapes of Wrath (lesson 1 of 10)
- This description is of only the first lesson in the unit, to be taught before students read the novel; thus, its primary purpose is to put this novel in historical context. Toward that end, students will learn about the (unintentional) abuse of soil that allowed the Dust Bowl to be so devastating and extensive. They will also see photographs by Dorothea Lange and others depicting the wasted land and subsequent wasted dreams of thousands.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Annie Henry.
- When you don't have all the answers
- Linda Dow suggests freeing yourself from the necessity to be the eternal expert and descibes techniques for sharing the responsibility for learning and teaching alongside your students.
- By Linda Dow.
