1 Inventing and Presenting Unit 2: Effective Speeches and Building the Invention Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–6 Professional Commentary: In this culminating interdisciplinary unit, students apply their knowledge of experimentation and the scientific method, critical thinking, clear writing, and effective speaking. Students read about inventors, propose inventions to solve problems they have identified, and build and test their inventions.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: AdLIT, OhioWINS, Standards First 2 Spell Check: Appraising the Value of Good Spelling Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–7 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students examine scenarios in which misspelling words may have unfortunate results. Accurate spelling has taken on new importance in the Internet age.... Projects: AdLIT Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 6 Professional Commentary: This resource is a lesson for teaching public speaking. This instructional unit, maintained by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, allows students to work in small groups to write effective introductions, organize their speeches, and request feedback from peers.... Projects: AdLIT, OhioWINS 4 In the Poet's Shoes: Performing Poetry and Building Meaning Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson uses poetry to build students' understanding of poetry and the poet's voice. Further, students analyze the elements a poet uses to develop meaning.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: AdLIT, Standards First 5 Radio Free School: Writing News for Radio Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: 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.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication Projects: AdLIT, OhioWINS, Standards First 6 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.... Projects: AdLIT Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students can express themselves and demonstrate their understanding of character and story through the performing arts. This lesson integrates language arts and theater as students create a character through movement and voice. Students are able to link literature and theater when they script a common fairy tale from a book, create a drama, practice from a "working script", rehearse, and perform short scenes for their class. During the course of this lesson, students also take turns being the performers and alternately, the audience. Proper audience protocol is emphasized.... 8 Video Production of a Newscast Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students research, write, and produce a 20 minute news broadcast. Working in small groups, students create and film a two minute segment of a school news show.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Information Technology, Marketing Projects: AdLIT, Standards First 9 Biography Project: Research and Class Presentation Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson sets the stage for high-interest reading with a purpose. As a class, students brainstorm a list of famous people and each student then selects an individual to research.... Career Fields: Education & Training, Government & Public Administration, Law & Public Safety, General Career Skills Projects: AdLIT, Standards First 10 Child Labor: Giving Voice to the Industrial Revolution Through Monologues Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students explore issues related to child labor, particularly as it occurred in England and the United States during the Industrial Revolution. Selected websites describe (with text, illustrations, and photographs) the conditions under which children labored during the Industrial Revolution.... Career Fields: Government & Public Administration, Law & Public Safety, General Career Skills Projects: AdLIT, OhioWINS, Standards First |