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- 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)
- The key to a map
- The students will use a map of the classroom to strengthen their map reading skills. They will work in groups and use a prepared map of the classroom to find hidden messages.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Melissa Lasher.
- European and South American agriculture
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 4.3
- In this lesson for grade six, students conduct research about agriculture in South America and Europe and organize the information on a compare/contrast map.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6 Social Studies)
- By Mandy Matlock.Edited by Julie McCann.
- "Twas the Night Before Christmas": Retelling through thinking maps
- After reading and discussing “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” students will work together to create a Flow Map. Each student will then use the map they created individually to retell the story in his/her own words.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts)
- By Amy Rhyne, Paulette Keys, and Sarah Carson.
- 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.
- Exciting narrative endings
- This lesson emphasizes the importance of a strong ending for a narrative essay and teaches students specific items to include in their endings.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By Ann Jolly.
- Guess The Genre!
- Students apply knowledge of genres to identify different genres from "reading-alouds of excerpts" from selected books representing different genres.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Information Skills)
- By Ann Jenkins.
- 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.
- 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.
- Geography centers
- A geography unit in which students investigate and compare their hometowns and other cities. The unit incorporates nine centers: math, science, social studies, reading, writing, computers, puzzles and games, art, and listening. They all have activities that are integrated with the geography unit.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Visual Arts Education, English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies)
- By Laurie Perry.
- The very hungry teacher
- After reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle students will use the writing process to write their own version of a Very Hungry story. They will use a flow map for pre-writing. Students will write a rough draft that will be revised and edited with a partner and a teacher.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts)
- By Kelly Zumwalt.
- Formulating questions to meet information needs of ESL students
- A multi-activity lesson plan to teach the concept of asking engaging, researchable questions prior to reading which leads to effective inquiries during project work. Using engaging questions creates a sense of connectedness by linking academic contents with students' personal concerns. The lesson is primarily designed for English Language Learners although it can be adapted for mainstream students. This lesson can also be modified for use with grades 4-8.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Development and Social Studies)
- By Deborah Wilkes, Kristi Triplett, and Karen Waller.
- Apples on parade
- Children will discover the different varieties of apples after listening to a selected story by describing likenesses and differences of apples, sorting apples, graphing apples, eating apples, and creating apple star trees. This unit can be extended to allow children to cook with apples.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Nancy Haley.
- Economic resources using thinking maps
- This lesson uses several literature selections in order to identify and classify natural, human, and capital resources. Students will work together in small groups to gather information and individually complete a Thinking Map. The assessment includes completing a Tree Map individually and sharing group information with the rest of the class. This lesson will take two days.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Robin Campbell.
- North Carolina rivers
- Students will locate 28 rivers within the state of NC, noting names and origins of names, directions of flow, navigability, and development of population centers in relation to the rivers.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Social Studies)
- By Mike Stevenson.
- Temperature graphs
- In the following lesson students will locate and record daily high temperatures for several major cities. This data will then be displayed on line graphs. Students will choose one city, and based on its high temperatures, write a paragraph describing appropriate clothing and activities for that location. They will draw a picture of themselves dressed in the clothing and participating in an activity they described.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
- By Kaye Clark.
- Preparing English language learners for reading comprehension
- In Reading comprehension and English language learners, page 1
- Use KWL charts, circle maps and brainstorming webs, and concept maps to prepare English language learners, content-area learners, and all students for reading comprehension.
- By Ellen Douglas.
- Mystery: Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
- This is a three part lesson on mysteries using the novel Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective by Donald Sobol.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Christine Weaver.
- Landform adventure
- This lesson will enable students to learn the types of landforms and bodies of water. Then they will use geographic terms to describe landforms and bodies of water in Mexico. Activities in this lesson can be taught during a period of 2-3 days.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Beth Edmonds.
- Mud feels good!
- Students will listen to Mud Walk by Joy Cowley. Students will experience and describe mud using a bubble map to record their responses. Students will create a class book using chocolate pudding to imitate mud.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Science)
- By Amanda Mcalpine, Carol Elliott, and Ginny Devine.
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