Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice lesson students investigate soils and observe how water moves through soil, how soil properties affect flow rate and water holding capacity. Students time the flow of water through different soils and measure the amount of water held in these soils.... 762 Using QARs to Develop Comprehension and Reflective Reading Habits Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–7 Professional Commentary: Mature readers move from reading for literal comprehension to developing inferential comprehension strategies. This lesson provides a foundation for building reflective reading habits, which enables students to develop these higher-level comprehension strategies.... 763 Questioning: A Comprehension Strategy for Small-Group Guided Reading Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students learn to recognize the difference between thin (factual) and thick (inferential) questions. The teacher begins by showing students how to compose question webs by thinking aloud while reading.... 764 The History Behind Song Lyrics Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: The events described in the lyrics from Billy Joel's song "We Didn't Start the Fire" are used as a springboard for this lesson. The lyrics include references to people, places and events from four decades of world occurrences.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 765 Technical Reading and Writing Using Board Games Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–5 Professional Commentary: Working in small groups, students create board games that review elements from a novel read by members of he group. An innovation on a common classroom activity, this lesson establishes criteria for students to follow in developing their game.... 766 Integrating Language Arts Using If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–1 Professional Commentary: This lesson uses Laura Joffe Numeroff's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie to combine key reading skills with prediction and sequencing practice. Students learn about cause-effect relationships during a shared reading of the book and then complete a cloze exercise that uses context and initial consonant clues.... 767 Exploring Satire with Shrek Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students use the familiar characteristics of fairy tales, the movie Shrek, which satirizes fairy tale traditions, as an introduction to the satirical techniques of exaggeration, incongruity, reversal, and parody. Students brainstorm fairy tale characteristics and identify the satirical techniques used to present them in the movie.... Projects: Writing 6-12 768 She Did What? Revising for Connotation Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Did she walk, skip, amble, dance? In this mini-lesson, students examine the simple sentence "She walked into the room." Students act out ways that the student in the sentence might enter the room, revising the sample sentence to increase the specificity of the word and explore connotation.... 769 Internalization of Vocabulary Through the Use of a Word Map Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson provides students with a concrete way to learn vocabulary. The instruction is interactive, provides practice with words, and develops both definitional and contextual knowledge through two agents---purposeful sequencing of steps and collaboration with peers.... 770 Exploring and Sharing Family Stories Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students are encouraged to explore the idea of memory in both large- and small-group settings. Students begin by investigating their own life experiences and discussing family stories they have heard.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Human Services, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First |