ARTSEDGE: The Kennedy Center's Arts Education Network. Resources for Teaching - Ben Taylor / FrontPage. Common Core Units - Built on the Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) framework Please click on the units below to print units that fulfill the Common Core State Standards. Review Stations for English I Please click on the links below to download and print (or modify) the stations activities. These stations review all ELA goals except Goal 6. Each stations activity reviews multiple goals (at least two). English I - Poetry Review.doc English I - Expressive Non-Fiction.doc English I - Short Story.doc English I - Informational #1.doc English I - Informational #2.doc Review sheet for English 1: English I Review Sheet.doc Review Stations for Middle School ELA Goals Please click on the links below to download or view review stations for all six ELA goals.
Weekly Lessons/Units The links below contain weekly lesson plans and assessments. Note: not all literature books categorize the same stories in the same grade levels. Goal-Specific Activities Reading Strategies (covers multiple goals) LESSONS - THE VISUAL LITERACY PROJECT. Remodelled Lessons: (6-9) Human Migration Objectives of the Remodeled Plan The Students Will: come to understand in detail Baluchi nomadic life, comparing it to their own develop empathy with Iranian nomadic life styles, exercising fairmindedness identify complex factors of modern migratory patterns in the U.S. relate human migration to their personal lives and the future Standard Approach The lesson discusses the reasons people have for migrating, including the search to find food, resources and better opportunities or because they are forced to migrate. The lesson introduces the concept and vocabulary of nomads.
It also discusses historical famines and the effect they had on forcing people to move. The text discusses migration for better opportunities and briefly examines colonization. Critique The "Human" Part of Migration This lesson deals with the reasons for migration. A second passage briefly looks at the "push" and "pull" factors. The Multiple Perspectives of Colonization The Conflicts of Modern Migrations. Resources for Teaching - Ben Taylor / FrontPage. Literature & Language Arts. Guided Reading: Lesson Plans for Teaching. What Does Guided Reading Look Like? Guided reading lesson plans involve an array of strategies. Depending on the age group and level of students, the lessons can vary differently. However, the lessons' main goal is to help students improve their reading abilities. Why Do Guided Reading? The purpose of guided reading is to help students read with a high accuracy rate and to enjoy it independently.
The print that they read needs to be meaningful to them. They start by learning various reading strategies in small groups with teacher guidance. Research Proves Guided Reading Improves Reading Kari A. Try the Four Block Strategy in Primary and/or Elementary Classrooms In primary classrooms, guided reading usually includes small groups, centers and a variety of activities. The program will look like a variety of activities happening at once, but they are controlled activities with teacher interaction and guidance. In addition, Reading A-Z is a great online resource for students. Teaching Job Skills: Resume and Letter Writing. The Diary of Anne Frank: Connecting Genocide in Darfur and Concentration Camps in North Korea. Written by: Peter Boysen•edited by: Trent Lorcher•updated: 11/14/2012 In many school systems, the study of the Holocaust during World War II takes place during middle school, and many curricula include "The Diary of Anne Frank" in those units.
This article will help students grasp the nature of the Holocaust through a modern geopolitical catastrophe. The Situation in Darfur and North KoreaDarfur is a region is western Sudan, Africa. Since 2003, Sudanese government soldiers fought rebel troops in this area. Unit Introductory Lesson Plan for Mystery Stories and Mystery Novels. Written by: Sylvie Colette•edited by: SForsyth•updated: 12/7/2011 This mystery unit lesson plan will introduce your students to the mystery story genre. This is an exciting unit that encourages reluctant readers and fires up their imaginations. Read, analyze, discuss and write to fully engage your early elementary students into mysteries. Mystery stories are an exciting genre to introduce to children in elementary school.
English resources, English revision, English worksheets,TES Resources. From Shakespeare to Steinbeck, from Medieval literature to the present day: if you're looking for lesson plans on poetry or prose, our collection of free English resources covers a wide area of literature and language. Have a look at our most recent collection, featuring resources to help with GCSE and A-level revision, teaching Shakespeare or browse through all the TES English collections. Alternatively, you can search for lesson plans, activities and worksheets.
@tesenglish Teaching Shakespeare Resources for teaching about Shakespeare's life, language and poetry American Literature Lesson plans and teaching activities to help you tackle the classics of American literature. Lesson Plan: Back to School Poems. Starting School Shape Poems When heading back to school, try this lesson that includes directions on how to write an acrostic, concrete, haiku, bio, and ABC poem. Teachers can decide how many types of poems they want their students to write on the themes of starting a new school year or summer vacation. Figurative Language Before asking students to write poetry about their favorite summer activities or starting school in the fall, students probably need to review figurative language. Depending on the age of the students, the list of figurative language that the teacher may want to review could be quite long.
For this introductory lesson that is supposed to inspire poetry, teachers can pick three to five examples of figurative language they want their students to try to use. Example Acrostic A quick and easy shape poem idea is the acrostic poem. “Vacation Shells” Skittering minnows dance in the shallows, Hoping to find a sand dollar, Enjoying the crash of the waves that bring new treasures, An Archetype Webquest for your Middle School Students: Online Research Project on Archetypes. Just What is an Archetype? The idea of archetypes is a lot simpler than the word would imply, especially for middle school students, but your archetypes webquest activity needs to begin with a discussion of what the term means.
The notion of the archetype started with Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist who was doing his own pioneer work in the field at about the same time as Sigmund Freud. Jung suggested that all people have the same inward psychological desires and tendencies, and these take certain forms in the way we describe reality, and in the way we tell stories. And so there are several different forms that archetypes take. There are archetypal events, such as death, marriage, leaving home, and initiation into a group. One, or some, or many of these events and concepts appear in just about every story out there. Middle School Baseball Unit Plan with Language Arts Activities. Written by: Pamela Martin • edited by: Amanda Grove • updated: 9/11/2012 “Take me out to the ball game. Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks…” With this baseball unit plan, you and your students can bring the ball game right into the classroom, with social studies and language arts activities to enhance everyone’s understanding of the game.
ObjectivesThe objectives for this baseball unit plan are as follows: Students will understand the invention and development of baseball throughout its history. Students will recognize the contributions of baseball and its players to the society. Students will explain the basic rules and equipment of baseball.