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- “I am very sorry. It is going to happen again”
- In The First Year, page 4.2
- Maintain your commitment to classroom organization and management all the way through the end of the year.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- A Christmas Carol chronology
- Christmas Carol Chronology, based on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, provides students with an opportunity to develop comprehension by listing plot developments and arranging them sequentially. This lesson begins with cooperative learning groups and ends with an individual manipulative activity of cutting and pasting strips of events in chronological order.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts)
- By Judy Gibbs.
- Communicating with parents at the beginning of the year
- In The First Year, page 1.3
- Start communicating with parents at the beginning of the year, to establish a relationship before you have anything negative to say.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- Designing your gym class
- From classroom organization to warm-up procedures, one physical education teacher provides a blueprint for a structured physical education program.
- By Bozena Mielczak and Kim Campbell.
- Details and sequencing
- In CareerStart lessons: Grade six, page 1.7
- This lesson for grade six will introduce students to careers in environmental protection as it teaches them to identify details and sequence in a non-fiction reading passage.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Guidance)
- By Jennifer Brookshire and Julie McCann.
- Further reading
- In The five features of effective writing, page 7
- An annotated bibliography on the Features of Effective Writing.
- By Kathleen Cali.
- Getting paragraphing down P-A-T
- One way to remember when to indent and begin a new paragraph is when (P) the place changes, (A) the action changes, and (T) the time changes (P-A-T). In this lesson, students will learn how to identify appropriate places to indent new paragraphs in their writing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Great beginnings
- Good beginnings hook readers and make them want to continue reading. Students will learn the features of good beginnings by reading the beginnings of several narrative picturebooks, and then writing good beginnings for their own narratives.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Great endings
- Sometimes authors end their stories with a memory, a feeling, a wish, or a hope. Other times they end the story by referring back to the language of the beginning. In this lesson, students will examine the characteristics of good endings by reading good endings of narrative picture books. They will then practice writing good endings for their own narratives.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Grouping skills for mastery
- In Math for multiple intelligences, page 4
- Thematic planning helps relate mathematics to students' lives.
- By Gretchen Buher.
- Havelock Ladies Home Demonstration Club
- Women in light-colored shirt-waist dresses are gathered behind two tables outside in this black and white photograph. Two of the women are holding young children in their arms. On the tables are basins and bowls. One woman is seated behind the table on the...
- Format: image/photograph
- Helping students get organized
- In The First Year, page 1.4
- Tips for helping students keep track of their materials and supplies.
- By Kristi Johnson Smith.
- 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.
- Highlighting revisions, glossing changes
- By highlighting their revisions and explaining (i.e.,glossing) the changes they have made to a draft of their work, students will not only become more proficient writers but will also become more conscious of the process of revision and thus more reflective writers. Further, teachers will find it easier to monitor and evaluate student revisions.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Peter Bobbe.
- Keep it short (but not too short)
- In Writing for the Web, page 4
- Shorter paragraphs and pages will help make your writing easier to read on the web, but you don't have to sacrifice important content.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Lesson plans for teaching organization
- A collection of LEARN NC's lesson plans for teaching organization, the second of the five features of effective writing.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Let's become chefs!
- The following is designed to teach students the characteristics of a recipe. The characteristics to be taught about this genre are: the step-by-step directions, ingredient words and numerical measures.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 English Language Arts)
- By Sarah Ann Parker.
- Literature biography project
- For this project, students will learn to develop the various processes used in researching and writing a biographical research paper, including brainstorming, note taking, outlining, creating a bibliography, and writing the final draft. This project is designed to act as an independent study geared toward AG or Level 3 and Level 4 students, but each step in the research process can also be taught directly to students in the classroom.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Sandra Dail.
- Making patterns make sense
- Students will analyze organizational patterns in analytical writing by reading, Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss. Students will then apply these patterns to their own writing by creating children's books about success.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 10 English Language Arts)
- By Heather Bower.
- Managing paperwork: top priorities for organization
- Suggestions for keeping track of your teaching materials, your students, and their work.
- By Mitch Katz.
