Ohio's Academic Content Standards in English Language Arts

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: Inspired by the picture book, It Starts with an A by Stephanie Calmenson, this lesson invites young learners to combine their experiences with familiar objects and descriptive writing. This lesson effectively integrates oral and written language and provides opportunities for teachers to model descriptive language....

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students become familiar with the pattern book format using I Went Walking by Sue Williams. Next, they collaborate to create their own digital pattern book....

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: This lesson uses familiar words from a traditional story to teach and reinforce students' understanding of letter-sound correspondence. The lessons begins with a shared reading of The Gingerbread Man with the whole class....

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: This lesson uses a read aloud of Henry and Mudge Under the Yellow Moon by Cynthia Rylant as a pre-activity discussion. Students discuss what Henry and Mudge enjoy doing inside and outside during the fall. Next, they have an opportunity to look at a variety of pictures depicting the seasons and select one that will make a good story....

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: This lesson uses a predictable text to help students learn high-frequency words. Word learning is enhanced by whole-to-part tasks aimed at increasing the reader's need to attend to and process the print....

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: This lesson focuses on helping students to identify problems and solutions in literary texts. After listening to the story Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Dorian Cronin, and an original poem, "Farmer Brown Has a Problem" by the author of the lesson, students explore problems and solutions found in the texts....