Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 7–10 Professional Commentary: In this instructional resource, students take on the role of an editor as they review informational texts intended for publication. After collecting a variety of published materials, including newspapers, magazines, books, copies of public lectures, scientific journals, and documents downloaded from the Internet, student examine ways in which attribution is given to individuals for ideas used in the published pieces.... Career Fields: Health Science Projects: Standards First 722 The Shortest Distance Between Two Points Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This lesson integrates technical writing with revising and editing strategies. Students assume the role of mechanical drafters and develop a revised set of instructions for a drafting communique.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Construction Technologies, Engineering & Science Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 723 Build it Up, Trim it Down Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: This lesson uses a sports writing context for students to practice key reading and writing process skills. Presented with data and highlights about a sporting event, students synthesize the information and write original sports summaries.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 724 Writing Free Verse in the "Voice" of Cesar Chavez Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson familiarizes students with the characteristics of free verse. Students read several examples of free verse poems and then write a free verse poem using biographical information about the labor activist Cesar Chavez.... 725 A High-Interest Novel Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in Schools Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: Problems with bullying and violence plague many schools. This lesson helps students understand these problems in depth.... Career Fields: Education & Training, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 726 Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections to Literature Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students choose four quotations to inspire their personal responses to a novel that they have read. Students write a narrative of place, complete a character sketch, create an extended metaphor poem and write a persuasive essay.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Education & Training, Information Technology, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 727 Exploring Literature through Letter Writing Groups Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students discuss literature through a series of letter exchanges. Though not a new idea, this lesson provides an alternative to traditional literature discussion groups.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 728 Painting Poetry: Using Visual Representation as a Response to Literature Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Interpreting poetry using visual representation encourages students to think critically about what the poet is communicating and ways in which those ideas are conveyed. In this lesson, students create visual art and write interpretations of their completed pieces.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Human Services, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 729 You Can't Spell the Word Prefix Without a Prefix Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Starting with the premise that word study is intriguing and fun, students work in cooperative groups to identify, define, and construct words using a list of preselected prefixes. Students guess at initial meanings and spellings of words, then correct misspellings using spelling strategies developed by their work groups.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 730 Propaganda Techniques in Literature and Online Political Ads Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: After reading or viewing a text, students are introduced to propaganda techniques and then practice identifying examples in the text. After examining these examples, students explore the use of propaganda in popular culture by looking at examples in the media.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First |