1 Angling for a Story: Exploring Multiple Ways to Cover a Single News Event Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students explore various writing angles as they report on a specific local event. They begin by examining the angle of a New York Times sports article.... 2 Memories Matter : The Giver and Descriptive Writing Memoirs Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson provides students with a scaffold for creating meaning from text by having them discuss the importance of preserving a written history of humanity and reflect on the ways in which prior knowledge and life experiences influence others. Students begin by reading and analyzing The Giver by Lois Lowry.... 3 Tell It Like It Isn't: Exploring Creative Ways to Revise Well-Known Stories Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students consider favorite stories and the common elements that make them interesting and entertaining. Next, students read and discuss an article in The New York Times about two performances and one historic tour based on creative retellings of well known stories.... Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: Created and reviewed by teams of educators, this writing activity describes a lesson in which students use historical information from a museum exhibit to write a fictional story from the point of view of someone who lived in the past. Drawn from the curriculum guide, Collecting Their Thoughts: Using Museums as Resources for Student Writing, which... Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students explore several radio news formats, styles, and sequences, and then write segments for a student-centered news radio program. After reading an article about news radio programming in Afghanistan, students plan and present a radio news show.... 6 Book Reviews, Annotation, and Web Technology Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: In this integrated lesson, students' work is balanced between small group cooperative projects and independent reading. Applying individual reading and writing skills, students read and annotate a novel.... 7 Persuasive Essay: Environmental Issues Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: 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.... |