1 Community of Interests: Evaluating Various Aspects of Community Through Local and National News Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students learn about the different sections of a newspaper and how each relates to different aspect of a community. Working in small groups, students examine the difference between local and national newspaper coverage through visual and written evaluations.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services Projects: AdLIT, Standards First 2 How Media Shapes Perception Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: The focus of this lesson is to help students understand the impact that of the media in shaping one's intellectual and emotional responses. Students explore this central idea as they look at broadcast and web-based news sites to discern subtexts conveyed through the use of language, audio, and visual elements.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Education & Training, Human Services, Marketing Projects: AdLIT, Standards First 3 Compare and Contrast Electronic Text With Traditionally Printed Text Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: With the increased use of the Internet, it is important for students to become familiar with the unique characteristics of electronic texts and learn techniques to navigate them effectively and efficiently. This lesson supports middle school students' exploration of an online educational website that incorporates a variety of electronic features including graphics, digitized speech, and video.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication Projects: AdLIT, Standards First 4 Comparing and Contrasting: Picturing an Organizational Pattern Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson, designed to be used in conjunction with comparison/contrast writing assignments, uses picture books as mentor texts. There are specific suggestions for texts that provide examples of point-by-point, whole-to-whole, or similarities-to-differences patterns. Students can decide what organizational patterns and transitional words will work best for their own purposes and apply them to their papers.... 5 Exploring the Power of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Words through Diamante Poetry Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: This lesson encourages students to explore the ways in which powerful and passionate words communicate the concepts of freedom, justice, discrimination, and the American Dream in Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. Paying attention to the details of King's speech as they read, students identify words to use in their own original poems.... Projects: AdLIT 6 Every Punctuation Mark Matters: A Mini-Lesson on Semicolons Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" demonstrates that even the smallest punctuation mark signals a stylistic decision, distinguishing one writer from another and enabling an author to connect with an audience. In this mini-lesson, students first explore Dr.... Career Fields: Business & Administrative Services, Education & Training, Government & Public Administration, Marketing Projects: AdLIT, OhioWINS, Standards First 7 Analyzing the Stylistic Choices of Political Cartoonists Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: Students learn terminology that describes comics and political (or editorial) cartoons and discuss how the cartoonists’ choices influence the messages that they communicate. After discussing several cartoons as a full class, each student analyzes the techniques that the same cartoonist uses in five or more cartoons.... Projects: AdLIT Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students learn oral presentation techniques for informal and formal speech. Working in small groups, students begin with informal speeches to gain the confidence and skills required for effective public speaking.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: AdLIT, Standards First 9 Write All About It: Newspapers Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: This resource offers strategies for teaching the parts and functions of a newspaper. This instructional unit, maintained by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, integrates many reading and writing tasks based on parts of a newspaper.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication Projects: AdLIT, OhioWINS, Standards First 10 Media Literacy: Designing Your Own Internet Book Club Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students read and discuss a New York Times article about television and online book clubs inspired by Oprah, the Today Show, and Good Morning America. Next, they evaluate the effectiveness of these Internet book clubs and present their findings to the class.... |