631 Lexipedia - Where Words Have Meaning Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: This content resource is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus that allows the user to see a dynamic, visual view of related words and their meanings. Lexipedia creates a visual word web that links the word to associated concepts and indicates parts of speech. Audio files provide correct pronunciation of the word or term in the web.... Projects: Writing 6-12 632 The Evolution of a Social Studies Teacher? Integrating Literacy Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 7–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: In this classroom vignette, Dwayne Marshall, who has been teaching social studies for twenty-one and is currently at Gahanna-Jefferson Public Schools, shares his advice and insight about a passion for history, team teaching history and language arts, teaching the American Revolution and the Great Depression, teaching solo, and using literature in American Government class and in African American studies. He reflects on his classroom experience, highlighting the ways in which he has integrated writing, reading, language arts, and history for students throughout his teaching career. (author/ebm) Projects: Writing 6-12 633 Language Arts and Social Studies? It's the Connections That Matter Most! Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 7–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: In this classroom vignette, teachers Lori Dhiraprasiddhi and Wendy Begun (both of whom are eighth-grade social studies at Hilliard Memorial Middle School) share their advice and insight about the "vacuum cleaner that exists in between the double front doors of our school. .... Projects: Writing 6-12 Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–7 Professional Commentary: The Tea Party technique allows students to be actively engaged in the reading process as they discuss parts of a text in small groups. When used before reading, students are given statements from the text, which they use to make predictions as they try to see connections among the statements. Tea Party may also be modified for use after reading as a way to bring closure to a text.... 635 Strategies to Teach Vocabulary in the Content Areas Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: Looking for some strategies to teach content-area vocabulary? Ohio social studies teacher Mark Dewar shares his classroom experience with triple-entry vocabulary journals, anticipation guides, and knowledge rating charts in this vignette from the October 2008 issue of "Adolescent Literacy In Perspective." Dewar dispels the myth that vocabulary needs to be taught in the English Language Arts classroom and shows how his students responded to learning vocabulary strategies for social studies. (author/ebm) Projects: Writing 6-12 636 Picture Sort for Initial F and T Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: This picture sort for the initial sounds of F and T is from the activity-based book, Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction. This activity helps children make the connection between spoken and written language. Children learn to identify the beginning sound in the pictures and place the pictures under the correct beginning letter. The activity can be extended when children draw and sort their own pictures that begin with the same beginning sounds to reinforce the letter/sound association. (author/jlkrause) 637 Picture Sort for ch, sh, and th Digraphs Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Children in the alphabetic stage can make the connection between the spoken and written word with this picture sort activity from the book, Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction. The sounds of the digraphs ch, sh, and th are the focus of this activity. After the teacher models how to sort the pictures into the three groups, the children do sorting with their own individual sheets. Reinforcement can follow by having the children find magazine pictures that begin with those digraphs. The children can then cut out the pictures and paste them in the correct sound category. (author/jlkrause) 638 Word Sort for the it, ip, and ill Families Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: This word sort for the it, ip, and ill families is from the activity-based book, Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction. This activity for children in the alphabetic stage can first be done in a group and later with partners. An idea for a partner activity is described. As the words are sorted into groups or word families, the children discover the patterns in the words. The children learn to recognize words that rhyme and share the same vowel and ending sounds. (author/jlkrause) 639 Word Sort for Long-a Patterns, Compared to the Short Vowel Pattern Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–4 Professional Commentary: Students can learn to distinguish the letter patterns for the short-a and long-a sounds in words with this word sort activity. This activity is taken from the book, Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction. Initially students identify and sort words with the short-a pattern of CVC. Next students identify and sort the two long-a patterns of CVV and CVVC. After sorting the words in this word sort, the students can extend their learning by going on word hunts to add more words to their groups. (author/jlkrause) 640 Diphthongs and Other Vowels Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–4 Professional Commentary: Dipthongs and other vowels are the focus of this word sort from the book, Words Their Way: Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction. This word sort is good for students who have an understanding of long vowels. Students first sort out words that are alike in the middle, and then add the words to their columns that sound and look like the words they have sorted. This activity helps develop and understanding of these within-word vowel patterns. (author/jlkrause) |