561 Connect With Low-Literate Families: A Three-Tiered Approach Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–1 Professional Commentary: Supporting children to read stories at home can be a rewarding activity that enhances the connection between home and school. This lesson extends students' literacy learning from school to home.... 562 Using Snowflake Bentley as a Framing Text for Multigenre Writing Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–4 Professional Commentary: Snowflake Bentley, a Caldecott Medal-winning book about Wilson Bentley, is an example of a multigenre picture book. Along with the biographical text are large, colorful woodcuts and sidebars describing Bentley's experiments with microphotography and other biographical data.... 563 Comparing Tales through Performance Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–3 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students identify the similarities and differences between a traditional and contemporary version of The Three Little Pigs. Students demonstrate comprehension by acting out scenes from each of the stories.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–6 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students analyze how a character's personality traits, actions and motives influence the plot of a story. Students learn to recognize emotions and feelings that are being displayed by a character.... 565 Lift Every Voice and Sing Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–7 Professional Commentary: How does a poem or a song express feelings and meanings? Using the book Color Me Dark and a poem by James Weldon Johnson entitled Lift Every Voice and Sing, this lesson explores the use of figurative language and imagery.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication Projects: Standards First 566 Exploring American Tall Tales Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–5 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students explore the common elements of folktales and tall tales, while learning how these stories built the spirit of American pioneers. Students identify the elements of tall tale and write responses to these tales, including a composition in the form of a monologue or a news report.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students are introduced to the idea of an idealized society. Students read Sir Thomas More's Utopia and examine the concepts behind his vision of an ideal society.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Education & Training, Government & Public Administration, Human Services, Law & Public Safety, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 568 Identity, Oppression, and Protest: To Kill a Mocking Bird and the Blues Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–12 Professional Commentary: African American history during the Jim Crow era includes encounters with poverty, racism, disrespect, and protest. Harper Lee develops all four of these themes in her famous 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This lesson focuses on how the blues both operate as poetry and inform the poetry of many prominent African American poets. Students consider the poetic devices and recurring themes in blues lyrics and the significance of the poetry of the blues as part of the African American tradition.... 570 Black and Blue: Jazz in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Ralph Ellison, musician-turned-writer, wrote Invisible Man like a jazz composition. The novel has many solo parts, and the events seem improvised as the unnamed main character goes from the south to the north, with many ups and downs.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First |