1 Exploring How Section Headings Support Understanding of Expository Texts Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: This lesson supports students' exploration and understanding of the purposes for section headings in expository texts. Working together, students read expository texts and insert the missing section headings.... 2 Imagination or Observation? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–Kindergarten Professional Commentary: This introductory lesson familiarizes students with the features which distinguish fictional and informational texts. After reading Frog and Toad, students compare the characteristics of that text with a nonfiction selection, Tale of a Tadpole.... 3 The Frog Beyond the Fairy Tale Character: Searching Informational Texts Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students examine their prior knowledge, make predictions, and verify their predictions through research on the Internet. This lesson uses the topic of frogs to teach students strategies for reading electronic informational texts.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students create a wall story as a means of retelling the text. After listening to a picture book, students sketch their favorite part of the story.... 5 Fact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using Diary of a Worm Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–3 Professional Commentary: This lesson presents a framework for using a variety of reading comprehension strategies in a scaffolded manner. Using the book Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin, students learn about worms by reading and examining the book in layers.... 6 STAR Search: How Do I Find the Book I Need? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: The STAR Search process outlines the steps an intermediate learner goes through in locating resources in the library for information gathering. Steps introduced in this overview lesson include selecting the appropriate search tool, selecting the subject heading(s) for successful searching, determining the kinds of resources needed, applying location strategies, and examining/evaluating a resource to determine if it will meet the information need.... 7 Creating a Classroom Newspaper Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–4 Professional Commentary: This lesson provides students with the opportunity to write authentic news stories. Using print and online newspapers, students analyze news writing, summarize articles, and plan and write their own stories.... 8 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 3: Olympic Champ: What is the best heading for the paragraph? Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 3 Professional Commentary: The question requires students to summarize a paragraph from the selection and to conceptualize what title would most be appropriate. This is a sample multiple choice test item used in a past Ohio Reading Proficiency Test assessment (for more information, see IMS: Assessments).... 9 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 3: Stargazers: Define binoculars Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 3 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to determine how to use specific resources and tools from the selection as a comprehension strategy. This is a sample multiple choice test item used in a past Ohio Reading Proficiency Test assessment (for more information, see IMS: Assessments).... 10 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 3: Rabbits, Rabbits, and More Rabbits: Tame rabbits Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 3 Professional Commentary: question asks students to determine the answer to a question based on information they found in the reading selection. In this case students are to use the word bank, a feature common to reading selections at this grade level, to determine a word meaning and use that meaning to help answer the question.... |