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Adolescent Literacy for Middle Grades (formerly Reading in the Content Area for Middle School Teachers)
Acquire strategies for teaching reading comprehension across all middle school curriculum areas. You'll learn how to help students unlock the text to become more strategic readers.
Take this course: Begins March 23.

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modeling
An instructional strategy in which the teacher demonstrates a new concept or approach to learning and students learn by observing.

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Modeling
Modeling is an instructional strategy in which the teacher demonstrates a new concept or approach to learning and students learn by observing. Theory of modeling as an instructional strategy Research has shown that modeling is an effective instructional...
Format: article
By Heather Coffey.
Expressive papier-mâché masks
Students will be creating an original papier-mâché mask that expresses an emotion. In doing this, they will be expanding upon their knowledge of representing the human face while further developing technical skills in papier-mâché sculpture and acrylic painting.
Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Visual Arts Education and English Language Arts)
By Kerri Fuller.
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.
Read it backwards
One editing technique that writers can use to help them catch their own spelling errors is "Read It Backwards." In this lesson, students will learn a procedure for identifying and correcting the spelling of misspelled words.
Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
By DPI Writing Strategies.
Action chains
Students learn to elaborate on an event in a narrative by expanding their sentences into action chains. Expanding single actions into an action chain provides the reader with a more detailed picture of an event in a narrative.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
By DPI Writing Strategies.
Helping students understand text structures: Informational problem/solution
This exercise teaches students to understand the organizational structure of problem/solution essays by having them write "what it says" and "what it does" statements about a text. Asking students to write these statements about a text will enable students to read the text closely and will ensure that they understand the structure of a problem/solution text.
Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
By Margaret Ryan.
Awesome action words
Good writers use precise verbs to make stories interesting and vivid. In this lesson, students will learn to replace boring, redundant, generic verbs with more precise “Awesome Action Words.”
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
By DPI Writing Strategies.
Classroom routines and procedures
Establishing clear classroom routines and procedures is necessary for ensuring that your classroom runs smoothly.
By Denise Young.
Essays of definition: Lively writing through professional models
This lesson examines a professional model of a definition paper and asks students to analyze and imitate the structures of using anecdotes and cause and effect to elaborate an essay of definition.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9 English Language Arts)
By Margaret Ryan.
Diction in Maya Angelou's poem "Remembering"
The class will annotate and discuss Angelou's poem. Then they will select specific words and complete a webbing that asks them to explore the connotations of the word as well as consider the author's purpose in using it.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
By Vickie Smith.
Adding emotions to your story
One way to make stories even better is to show emotions, and not just tell them. In this lesson, students will use actions, gestures, and facial expressions to act out emotions.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
By DPI Writing Strategies.
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.
Book order math
Using a book order catalog, students will calculate costs for their book choices, learn how to write a check, and to fill out an order form.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
By Teri Dammann.
Sum calculator fun
Students work in pairs to practice math facts and use calculators to check answers.
Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Mathematics)
By Laurie Melton.
Exploring place value with M&Ms
This lesson will use M&Ms to explore place value. The students are given 8-10 M&Ms and assigned a value for each color from one to hundred thousand. The students will then write their number in standard, written and expanded form. The students will also identify the place and value of various digits.
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Mathematics)
By Amy Bullins.
Reading guides
Groups will develop a Reading Guide for each non-fiction resource book for units in science, social studies, and other curriculum areas. Students will identify useful features each book and where the important information will be found. Reviewing non-fiction features of print resources will familiarize the class with material on reserve for the unit. Overviewing and identifying text features will help students determine how to approach the various formats of text relevant to the topic.
Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
By Elizabeth Hubbe.
Selecting evidence to support an argument
This is a strategy lesson to teach students how to select evidence from a text to support an argument for an essay. It was designed to take two class periods and is comprised of three mini-lessons; these lessons include teacher modeling strategy to large group, student practice with strategy in small groups, and student practice with strategy individually on what will ultimately be the essay that they write.
Format: lesson plan (grade 11 English Language Arts)
By Caroline Sain.
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.
Persuasive writing: A classroom model
In Arts of persuasion, page 4
A plan for modeling persuasive writing with middle school students, using homework as the topic.
By Pamela Myrick and Sharon Pearson.
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.