441 Book Report Alternative: Comic Strips and Cartoon Squares Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–7 Professional Commentary: Students often tire of responding to novels in the same ways. By creating comic strips or cartoon squares featuring characters in books, they are encouraged to think analytically about the characters, events, and themes in ways that expand their critical thinking.... 442 Book Report Alternative: Creating Careers for Characters Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: What if one of the characters in the book you've been reading was looking for a job? What is the character qualified to do?... Career Fields: Business & Administrative Services, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 443 Book Report Alternative: Examining Story Elements Using Story Map Comic Strips Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Knowing and understanding the elements of a story helps students with their comprehension of what is taking place in the book or novel. When students apply their knowledge of story elements of characters, setting, problems, events, and solutions, they become more involved in the story and take a greater interest in details.... 444 Book Report Alternative: Summary, Symbol, and Analysis in Bookmarks Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–7 Professional Commentary: As an alternative to traditional book reports, student create bookmarks as a response to a novel. This activity provides opportunities for students to practice writing summaries, recognize literary symbols, and write book reviews.... Projects: Writing 6-12 445 Book Reviews, Annotation, and Web Technology Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–9 Professional Commentary: In this integrated lesson, students' work is balanced between small group cooperative projects and independent reading. Applying individual reading and writing skills, students read and annotate a novel.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Education & Training, Information Technology, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 446 Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Critical Discussion of Social Issues Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–7 Professional Commentary: This lesson uses picture books to invite students to engage in critical discussions of such complex issues as race, class, and gender. Students gain insight into some of the social barriers that separate people from one another as they examine examples of prejudice and inequality.... 447 Censorship in the Classroom: Understanding Controversial Issues Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: This lesson helps students to understand the ways in which bias and stereotyping are used by the media to influence popular opinion. Students examine propaganda and media bias and explore a variety of banned and challenged books, researching the reasons these books have been censored.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Education & Training, Government & Public Administration, Health Science, Hospitality & Tourism, Human Services, Law & Public Safety, Marketing, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 448 Character Clash: A Mini-Lesson on Paragraphing and Dialogue Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–7 Professional Commentary: This mini-lesson describes a self-editing activity in which students look closely at their writing, marking speaking parts, and then make corrections. Using highlighters or colored fonts, students mark parts of their text to indicate where dialogue is occurring.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 449 Charlotte Is Wise, Patient, and Caring: Adjectives and Character Traits Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–4 Professional Commentary: In this activity, students apply their knowledge of adjectives as they study characterization. Students locate examples of adjectives in a text, then describe one of the major characters.... 450 Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: After reading and discussing various stories, students work in small groups to plan and write their own adventure story. Divided into literature circles or book groups, students begin by analyzing the literary elements of adventure stories.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Information Technology, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First |