611 Flip-a-Chip: Examining Affixes and Roots to Build Vocabulary Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students are introduced to the Flip-a-Chip vocabulary activity. To begin the activity and model the procedures, teachers show how prefixes and roots can be combined to form new words.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 612 He Said/She Said: Analyzing Gender Roles through Dialogue Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 6 Professional Commentary: Middle school students face a lot of pressure, including pressures coming from stereotyped gender expectations. This lesson has students brainstorm some gender stereotypes, find examples in popular culture, and discuss how the stereotypes affect their lives.... 613 Imagine That! Playing with Genre through Newspapers and Short Stories Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: While middle school students typically understand narrative structure, they are not as familiar with expository text structures. In this introductory lesson, students compare and contrast narrative and expository structures.... Projects: Writing 6-12 614 Making Personal and Cultural Connections Using A Girl Named Disaster Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson is intended to help students experience both "efferent" (reading for information) and "aesthetic" (reading as a personal, emotional experience) responses to the story A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer. Students work as a whole class and with partners to explore the main character Nhamo as she struggles to survive in her extended family... 615 Peer Review: Narrative Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Often students give feedback on each other's written drafts without providing useful information. This lesson describes the Praise-Question-Polish technique in which students work in small writing response groups.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 616 Persuasive Essay: Environmental Issues Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: Critical stance and development of a strong argument are key strategies when writing to convince someone to agree with your position. In this lesson, students explore environmental issues that are relevant to their own lives, select topics, and gather information to write persuasive essays.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Government & Public Administration, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 617 Picture Books as Framing Texts: Research Paper Strategies for Struggling Writers Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, picture books are used to provide a writing frame for structuring research projects. Using picture books as models, students are able to think more about what to say and less about how to say it, which leads to better learning experiences and better writing.... Projects: Writing 6-12 618 Press Conference for Bud, Not Buddy Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson lesson is centered around the novel Bud, Not Buddy, by Christopher Paul Curtis. The lesson encourages students to use higher-level thinking skills, and asks them to examine different character perspectives.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 619 Proverbs: Contemporary Proverbs Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–9 Professional Commentary: "Don't store all your data on one disk" is a contemporary update of the traditional proverb "Don't put all your eggs in one basket." Such traditional proverbs, meant to convey cultural knowledge and wisdom, are often closely tied to a culture's values and everyday experience. As a result, their meanings are not always readily apparent to... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 620 Scaling Back to Essentials: Scaffolding Summarization With Fishbone Mapping Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–7 Professional Commentary: What's important and what's not? Students work in pairs and cooperative groups to explore this question by completing fishbone maps that highlight the main ideas and relevant details from a cause-effect text.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Education & Training, Law & Public Safety, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First |