Ohio's Academic Content Standards in English Language Arts

Discipline: Reading

Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students write free-verse acrostic poems about themselves using the letters of their names to begin each line. They then write an additional poem about something that is important to them, also using the letters of that word for the beginning of each line....

Discipline: Reading

Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students engage in a whole-group revising process, using a story which has been written collaboratively. Teachers lead this lesson by modeling how to reread and revise stories for content....

Discipline: Reading

Professional Commentary: Part of Scholastic's Writing with Writers series, this resource features lessons and activities for use in writing workshop. This poetry writing project is designed to teach students strategies for creating original poetry....

Discipline: Reading

Professional Commentary: In this series of lessons, students explore the craft elements of simile and metaphor, creating their own names and definitions of these figures of speech. Rather than placing the emphasis on learning a list of formal figures of speech, this process initiates play and discovery of the “wondrous words” that make up the books they explore...