481 Guided Comprehension: Previewing Using an Anticipation Guide Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: The focus of this lesson is on helping students to use effective strategies for reading comprehension. Strategic reading allows students to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and their own experiences.... 482 Guided Comprehension: Self-Questioning Using Question-Answer Relationships Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Through strategic reading instruction, students learn how to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and their own experiences. Based on the Guided Comprehension Model developed by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson introduces students to the comprehension strategy of self-questioning.... 483 Guided Comprehension: Summarizing Using the QuIP Strategy Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Strategic reading allows students to monitor their own thinking and make connections between the texts and their own experiences. Based on the Guided Comprehension Model developed by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson introduces students to the comprehension strategy of summarizing.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Providing a new twist on a traditional theme, this lesson asks students to explore the distinction between a hero and an idol. Students work collaboratively to define criteria for heroism and characteristics of heroes.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 485 Hey Diddle, Diddle! Generating Rhymes for Analogy-Based Phonics Instruction Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, shared reading, guided reading, and small, cooperative-group instruction are used to informally assess students' awareness of rhyme. After a shared reading experience, students identify rhyming words, paying particular attention to specific word chunks.... 486 How Big Are Martin's Big Words? Thinking Big about the Future Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Using the award-winning picture book,"Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this lesson focuses on the words Dr.... 487 In the Poet's Shoes: Performing Poetry and Building Meaning Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson uses poetry to build students' understanding of poetry and the poet's voice. Further, students analyze the elements a poet uses to develop meaning.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 488 Inventing and Presenting Unit 1: Analyzing Nonfiction and Inventing Solutions Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–7 Professional Commentary: This interdisciplinary unit builds on students' use of experimentation and the scientific method, critical thinking, clear writing, and effective speaking. Working in small groups and independently, students read about inventors, propose inventions to solve problems they have identified, and build and test their inventions.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Construction Technologies, Education & Training, Engineering & Science Technologies, Finance, Government & Public Administration, Health Science, Hospitality & Tourism, Human Services, Information Technology, Law & Public Safety, Manufacturing Technologies, Marketing, Transportation Systems, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 489 Inventing and Presenting Unit 2: Effective Speeches and Building the Invention Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–6 Professional Commentary: In this culminating interdisciplinary unit, students apply their knowledge of experimentation and the scientific method, critical thinking, clear writing, and effective speaking. Students read about inventors, propose inventions to solve problems they have identified, and build and test their inventions.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 490 Launching Family Message Journals Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–1 Professional Commentary: This lesson introduces Family Message Journals-a teacher-tested tool for encouraging family involvement and supporting writing to reflect and to learn. The teacher introduces journals by demonstrating the process of writing a letter.... |