61 Searching Near and Far: Learning About How Specialized Search Engines Make Internet Information Accessible Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: This resource uses a news article from the New York Times to explore using an Internet search engine for research. Designated a promising practice, this lesson allows students to use a hands-on experience with Internet search engines to learn more about how to locate information on the web.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Education & Training, Health Science, Information Technology, Manufacturing Technologies, Marketing, Transportation Systems Projects: Standards First 62 Painting Portraits with Words: A Language Arts Lesson Based on an Exhibition on William Butler Yeats Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: This resource uses a feature article from the New York Times to examine how an exhibition of William Butler Yeats' writings represents a portrait or biography of the author's life. Designated a promising practice, this lesson allows students to analyze various poems by Yeats using varied written forms.... Projects: Writing 6-12 63 Swinging with the Times: Giving A Modern Slant to Favorite Children's Stories Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students examine the many changes in the Tarzan character from Edgar Rice Burroughs' first novel to Disney's newest movie version to understand how children's movies are often used to mirror and promote cultural attitudes and beliefs. Students then adapt a favorite children's story to a modern setting, updating the characters and plot to better reflect the times.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Information Technology, Marketing Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 64 Prize-Winning Prose: Developing "Kid's Pulitzers" in the Language Arts Classroom Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice students develop criteria for Kid's Pulitzers -- awards in categories of writing determined by the students. Each student will then bestow a Kid's Pulitzer upon a piece of writing which they deem to be distinguished based on the established criteria.... Projects: Writing 6-12 65 The Tell-Tale Hearts of Writers: Exploring the Lives of Authors Through Their Literature Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 7–10 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice lesson, students use a piece of literature by and an article about Edgar Allan Poe to investigate the relationship between word choice and the reader's mood and interpretation of a piece of writing. Each student then creates a visual display that examines a favorite writer through biographical information, analysis of quotations about the author and his or her works, and interpretation of a piece of the author's writing.... 66 Showing Good Taste: Writing Thoughtful Restaurant Reviews in the Language Arts Classroom Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice, students distinguish the important elements of well-written restaurant reviews by analyzing and evaluating reviews from The New York Times and by writing their own reviews of favorite dining locations. Students are encouraged to evaluate critical and persuasive texts as well as writing their own.... Career Fields: Hospitality & Tourism, Marketing Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–12 Professional Commentary: An "amazing" site for middle grades and high school students, this resource offers interactive lessons, which include images from the Hubble Space Telescope, high quality graphics, videos, and animation. Space topics include black holes, galaxies, stars, comets, and our solar system.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, General Career Skills Projects: COR, Standards First 68 Writing with Writers: Biography Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–8 Professional Commentary: This promising practice, part of a Scholastic's Writing with Writers series, provides strategies for teaching students to write biographies. Designed for implementation within writing workshop, this resource includes a warm-up exercise, genre-specific tips for biography writing, and an example of a biographical sketch.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 69 Myths, Folktales, and Fairy Tales: Writing with Writers Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 2–3 Professional Commentary: This promising practice, part of Scholastic's Writing With Writers series, provides strategies for teaching students to craft their own fairy tales. Designed for implementation within writing workshop, this cross grade level writing project features several components, including fractured fairy tales activities inspired by Jon Scieszka.... 70 Journal Writing with Virginia Hamilton Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–8 Professional Commentary: This resource, part of Scholastic's Writing With Writers series, provides strategies to teach descriptive journal writing. Designed for implementation within a writing workshop format, this resource includes a sample journal entry, writing tips, strategies, and challenges to help students develop their own journal writing.... Projects: Writing 6-12 |