1191 Teaching the Compare and Contrast Essay through Modeling Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–6 Professional Commentary: This introductory lesson in essay writing supports students in learning to use a compare/contrast structure in their writing. Teachers begin by modeling, inviting students to contribute ideas to the essay. Teachers also show students how to incorporate new ideas and make revisions think using a word processing program.... 1192 Memoir: The Stuff of Our Lives Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–6 Professional Commentary: In this unit, students will explore the genre of memoir and discover how writers write about the ordinary happenings of their lives. Each lesson centers on one topic (e.g., a treasured object, photographs) and engages students with rich examples from poetry, picture books, novels, and memoirs. Lists of recommended texts are included. "Exploring activities" follow, providing opportunities for oral communication, reading, and writing in a variety of modes.... 1193 Keep It Real: Newspapers, the Ultimate Informational Text Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–6 Professional Commentary: This resource provides a set of ten lessons designed for use with newspapers. These comprehensive lessons outline ideas for instruction, guided practice, and assessment. Downloadable activity sheets and ideas for adapting the lessons make these resources appropriate for a variety of classrooms.... 1194 Reading Informational Texts Using the 3-2-1 Strategy Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Being able to effectively read informational texts is a fundamental skill for young readers. In this lesson, students learn to use the 3-2-1 strategy to support comprehension of informational texts. After teacher modeling, students read a magazine article independently and use the 3-2-1 strategy to document what their understandings. In applying the strategy, students read an article and... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This interdisciplinary instructional resource contains five extended lessons that can be used separately or as part of a larger curriculum unit available at the website. Although the lessons reference Spike Lee's documentary HBO film When the Levees Broke, there are ample additional resources for exploring the issues surrounding Hurricane Katrina.... 1196 Unlocking Soliloquies and Unleashing the "Dogs of War" Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: To help students feel confident about breaking down and interpreting soliloquies, this lesson uses Mark Anthony's soliloquy over Caesar's dead body. Active participation and movement is required as students join in a sequence of oral reading experiences to examine the soliloquy's pattern of lines, meter, and emotional impact. Small discussion groups then search for patterns of imagery.... 1197 M.C. Bard: Hip Hop and Shakespeare Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Shakespeare's works and today’s hip hop songs use a variety of literary devices to explore universal themes. Both art forms use the language of their times and are meant to be enjoyed in performance.... 1198 From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Autobiography Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this curriculum unit of three lessons, students read Frederick Douglass's 1845 slave narrative, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself. They analyze Douglass's vivid first-hand accounts of the lives of slaves and the behavior of slave owners to see how he successfully contrasts reality with romanticism and powerfully uses... 1199 Analyzing Photographs: From Theory to Practice Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students are guided to respond to several works of art and photography through a series of visual analysis activities where they use their descriptive, reflective, and formal analytic abilities. Next, the students, themselves, act as photographers by documenting daily life in their own communities.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 7–10 Professional Commentary: The materials at this site explain the design and construction of a truss bridge, the Brent Spence Bridge, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The bridge is divided into 8 different sections, and students are responsible for computing lengths and angles in one section of the bridge.... |