Ohio's Academic Content Standards in English Language Arts

Discipline: Reading

Professional Commentary: One of the most difficult aspects of writing is keeping audience in mind throughout the writing process. This lesson supports primary level students in learning about audience....

Discipline: Reading

Professional Commentary: Focusing on the integration of authentic writing opportunities into daily instruction, this lesson encourages teachers to promote and model the use of informal writing to inspire students to write short notes to themselves, friends, teachers, and family members. Students write short notes, to remind, plan, request or compliment, providing many natural opportunities for meaningful writing and...

Discipline: Reading

Professional Commentary: This lesson begins with a shared reading of the story, Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley....

Discipline: Reading

Professional Commentary: The focus of this lesson is literary response. Students listen to several stories featuring the character Corduroy and respond orally and in writing....

Discipline: Reading

Professional Commentary: This lesson uses Laura Joffe Numeroff's If You Give a Mouse a Cookie to combine key reading skills with prediction and sequencing practice. Students learn about cause-effect relationships during a shared reading of the book and then complete a cloze exercise that uses context and initial consonant clues....

Discipline: Reading

Professional Commentary: This series of lessons features is structured around a text set made up of conceptually-related fiction and nonfiction for reading aloud and for independent reading. Beginning with a comparative study of selected, illustrated retellings of the traditional folktale “Little Red Riding Hood,” this literature unit continues with a study of modern revisions of this well-known tale....

Discipline: Reading

Professional Commentary: This resource introduces students to the structure of writing workshop in an effort to bring greater focus to their writing. The lesson takes place in a writing workshop format....