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- Building a support network
- Every teacher needs support networks, both formal and informal. This guide to LEARN NC's collections will point you to resources that show you how to build your own and get the help you need.
- Format: bibliography/help
- 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)
- Defining tyranny
- Students will focus on gathering support for and elaborating on ideas for an essay of definition on tyranny. Students will use examples from history and from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Bethany Hill.
- The end (for now)
- In The First Year, page 4.5
- I was a first-year teacher, driving to school and thinking about a thousand things I should have done yesterday and a thousand more that required my attention as soon as possible. If I hadn't needed both hands on the steering wheel, I would have started adding...
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- 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.
- Looking for support
- An elementary special education teacher talks about finding support in challenging situations.
- By Kathleen Casson.
- Maya Angelou: Study and response to "Still I Rise"
- Students read biographical information on Maya Angelou and her poem, "Still I Rise." Students identify support and elaboration in poem, then respond by either writing a letter to the author or his/her own poem in response.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Barbara Groome and Jo Peterson Gibbs.
- My Lai
- In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 9
- In 1968, U.S. forces considered the My Lai area to be a stronghold of Communist Vietnamese fighters (known as Vietcong) and their sympathizers. Repeated bombing of the region only increased the support of local civilians for the Communist fighters. After an...
- By Lorraine Aragon.
- About the five features of effective writing
- An explanation of the "Five Features of Effective Writing" model (focus, organization, support and elaboration, style, and conventions) with links to detailed articles, lesson plans, and exemplars of student writing.
- Format: bibliography/help
- LEARN NC white paper: An introduction to virtual mentoring
- How to support new teachers with an online mentoring program.
- Format: document/document
- Hurricane-resistant construction
- In Hurricanes on sandy shorelines: Lessons for development, page 23
- Figure 20 shows construction of a house clearly designed to function as a pier during extreme weather. Note the number and size of the support timbers and the surf breaking on the beach in the near background. Rarely does one see human efforts to overcome...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Writing exemplars (high school)
- Samples of varying levels of performance on different types of writing assignments by high school students, with comments based on the five Features of Effective Writing: focus, organization, support and elaboration, style, and conventions.
- Format: tutorial
- Foreword
- Developing online resources for beginning teachers is not easy. What new teachers need most of all is a mentor — an experienced, thoughtful, successful teacher who can take the time to guide them through their first year. They need someone to steer them...
- By David Walbert.
- Interior of a kiln
- In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 18
- Figure 16 shows the interior of the kiln shown in Figure 15. The shape of the roof was achieved by building a wooden frame that looked like an upturned boat in the interior to support the firebricks of the roof until the full structure was complete and self-supporting....
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Communication: The key to successful mentoring
- Building support systems begins with asking for help — and giving it.
- By Diane Gore.
- The taste of relevance
- Students will learn the importance of selecting relevant details by picking the right toppings for an ice cream sundae. This activity gives the students a concrete visual memory of what good details are.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Plain Polly: Adding relevant details
- This instructional technique creates a lasting visual image of how relevant details help develop a character and a focus. Students learn to add only details that are related to the main idea of a “Plain Polly” stick figure. These mascots serve as reminders to students to be selective with the details they use to support their main idea.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Mentoring matters
- How mentors can serve as role models, helpers, and colleagues.
- By Evalee Parker.
- Mutual support among beginning teachers
- Beginning teachers share similar concerns and problems. Communication can help them share solutions, too.
- By Katie Bond.
- Selection policy and disclaimer for "Best of the Web"
- The purpose of LEARN NC's Best of the Web collection is to provide web resources that support the North Carolina Standard Course of Study. These resources have been selected according to our selection policy.
- Format: article/help
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