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- The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
- This lesson plan focuses on a English Language Arts objectives: similarity and difference. Students compare the story The Three Little Pigs and The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig by Eugene Trivizas. Students will work collaboratively in small heterogeneous groups to apply strategies for comprehension and vocabulary.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Betty Coleman-Canty and Michelle Swain.
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- The learner will be doing curriculum integrated activities using Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Shannon Zerniak.
- The Wish Giver: Cause and effect
- Through a discussion of the characters in the novel The Wish Giver, by Bill Brittain, the teacher will teach the students to identify and analyze the cause/effect relationship and its importance in reading comprehension.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts)
- By Becky Ellzey.
- To Kill A Mockingbird role-play: A Maycomb pig pickin'
- Somewhere near the middle of reading the novel, students start to become confused about characters. This fun role-play activity works especially well just after Chapter 21 and allows students to get to know characters beyond Jem and Scout. It also can be a springboard into further discussions of point of view, theme, and stereotypes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By David Ansbacher.
- Walk Two Moons: An integrated unit
- Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech is a bittersweet story of a teenager who desperately wants to be reunited with her mother. This unit is an integrated study combining setting, theme, point of view, character, and plot with geography and geometry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 English Language Arts)
- By Janet Fore.
- Walter the Baker
- In this lesson, students will read and discuss Walter the Baker by Eric Carle. They will then create a personal response in words and pictures explaining what they want to be when they grow up.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Teresa Bennett.
- Who Moved My Cheese? for Teens
- Students read, discuss, and write about Who Moved My Cheese? for Teens by Spencer Johnson, M.D., a parable about life's changes, and how best to benefit from them. By reading the parable, students will learn ways to react positively to inevitable change, and gain insight into their personal decision-making processes regarding changes in their lives, now and in the future. This lesson plan is modified for Advanced English Language Learners in the 9th and 10th grades. It is written for 45 minute class periods, but can be modified for 90 minute block classes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Ann Gerber.
- Oedipus the King reader's theatre
- Students will rewrite the Greek tragedy in a modern context in order to review and analyze the plot. This assignment is designed as a final project in a Greek Theatre unit. It is expected that the literature has already been read and analyzed as a class. I have found that this project is an innovative way to review for a unit test on the play and Greek Theatre.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- A'planting we will go
- This lesson is based on the book, The Tiny Seed, by Eric Carle. This story will be used to introduce the students to the concept that seeds change and grow into plants when conditions in the environment including temperature, light, water and soil are appropriate. Students will learn that plants produce seeds that can become new plants. Through extended activities, the students will experience first-hand the germination of seeds. They will become familiar with the parts of a plant and learn how each part works to produce a healthy plant.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts, English Language Development, and Science)
- By Karol Schriber.
- ABCs by the week
- This is an ongoing series of lessons to teach the 26 letters of the alphabet through functional skills that can be used on a daily/weekly basis building on and transferring to other educational tasks. These lessons incorporate coloring, marking, painting, cutting, pasting, creating, listening and following directions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts)
- By Karen Dawsey and Sherry Waters.
- The ABCs of the Three Little Pigs
- This lesson uses a familiar fairy tale to teach writing. It is designed to emphasize using varied sentence patterns in writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 English Language Arts)
- By Penny Canipe.
- 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.
- 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.
- Adding support and detail without getting arrested!
- This lesson plan is designed to teach students the concept of using facts to support ideas and to interpret (elaborate on) those facts in order to create a synthesized paragraph.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Bonnie Mcmurray and Julie Joslin.
- Albert Einstein
- In The Walking Classroom, page 7
- In this lesson for fifth grade language arts and science, students listen to a podcast about Albert Einstein and discuss his life and contributions to science.
- Format: lesson plan
- Along the Trail of Tears
- A part of history is often forgotten when teaching younger students. This is the relocation of the Cherokee Indians when the white settlers wanted their property. The US Government moved whole groups of Indians under harsh conditions. This trip became known as the Trail of Tears. Using this as a background students will explore and experiment with persuasive writing as they try to express the position of Cherokee leaders.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Glenda Bullard.
- Alphabet animals
- Students will use their knowledge of the alphabet and letter sounds to create an alphabet PowerPoint presentation. Each slide will contain a letter of the alphabet, a sentence and the sound that corresponds to that letter.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Computer/Technology Skills, English Language Arts, and Information Skills)
- By Emily Leonard.
- The American Dream
- In conjunction with a unit on Puritanism, students will define and illustrate their personal definition of the American Dream or their concept of the dream in general.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts and English Language Development)
- By Becky Ackert and Deborah Belknap.
- Analyzing author style using sentence combining
- This activity should be completed before reading the essay “Beach People, Mountain People” by Suzanne Britt. Students will combine three sets of kernel sentences based on the first paragraph of Britt's writing. They will then compare their sentences to Britt's. The class will discuss what sentence combining strategy or strategies they used and observe how Britt varies her sentences.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Vickie Smith.
- Analyzing significant events in Jim the Boy
- This activity, to be completed after reading Tony Earley's Jim the Boy, helps students identify examples and details and then analyze them effectively. The class will brainstorm examples of life-changing events in Jim's life. The teacher will select one of the events, find the pages in the novel where it is discussed, and show the students how to annotate the text by marking details and commenting on them. Using a "T" chart, the class will then select three of the details to analyze.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–10 English Language Arts)
- By Vickie Smith.
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