1111 Girls Read: Online Literature Circles Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, girls are given a selection of five multicultural young adult novels with strong female protagonists. A suggested booklist is provided.... 1112 Taking Photos of Curious George: Exploring Character Through Images Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students use images and texts to explore the familiar character, Curious George. After reading and discussing the book, students create a web with insights about George's character.... 1113 Underground Adventure Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: The activities in Underground Adventure guide students through an outdoor field study of soil life and some of the variables that affect soil biodiversity. Through these activities, students will gain experience in scientific skills such as hypothesis, observation, and inference.... 1114 Finding Poetry in Prose: Reading and Writing Love Poems Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: When students think of love poetry, they almost invariably think of poetry about romantic love. This lesson expands the concept of love poems to move beyond romantic love to explore other kinds of love, particularly the love within a family.... 1115 Elie Wiesel: First Person Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This lesson on Elie Wiesel, and his Holocaust memoir Night may be used with or without Ken Burns' PBS video Elie Wiesel: First Person Singular. It is divided into three activities.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–4 Professional Commentary: This lesson focuses on using conversational language and music to introduce the concept of similes by building language acquisition and helping students to develop a positive attitude about learning language. Using picture books and a common nursery rhyme, students are introduced to the concept of similes and afforded opportunities to practice identifying similies found in texts.... 1117 Individuality vs. Conformity using Jerry Spinelli’s Stargirl Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–9 Professional Commentary: In this unit, centered on the reading of Jerry Spinelli's Stargirl, students explore themes related to issues faced by middle and high school students. Students make connections with the novel and their own lives through a film clip and Internet resources that include a music video, an interview with an artist, television commericals, and informational articles. The discussion questions and activities... 1118 The Day Jimmy’s Boa Taught Cause and Effect Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–2 Professional Commentary: This lesson introduces the concept of cause and effect with Trinka Hakes Noble’s books about Jimmy and his boa constrictor. Each lesson begins with a reading of a new story about Jimmy and his boa and the chaos they bring to each place they visit.... 1119 Introducing the Venn Diagram in the Kindergarten Classroom Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–1 Professional Commentary: The Venn diagram in kindergarten? Yes! Venn diagrams can be used effectively by young students.... 1120 Readers Theatre With Jan Brett Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–2 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students interact with the book Hedgie's Surprise by Jan Brett and create a Reader's Theatre experience that is performed for other groups of students. Students make predictions about the story prior to reading, listen to the story being read aloud, and then make observations about the characters, setting, and plot.... |