The K-5 Text Analyses includes an analysis of every central text used in the EL Education Language Arts Curriculum, focusing on four specific qualitative aspects of complexity: meaning, structure, language features, and knowledge demands. This document includes text analyses for grade 4.
The K-5 Text Analyses includes an analysis of every central text used in the EL Education Language Arts Curriculum, focusing on four specific qualitative aspects of complexity: meaning, structure, language features, and knowledge demands. This document includes text analyses for grade 5.
The K-5 Text Analyses includes an analysis of every central text used in the EL Education Language Arts Curriculum, focusing on four specific qualitative aspects of complexity: meaning, structure, language features, and knowledge demands. This document includes text analyses for grade 4.
Reading, analyzing, and evaluating informational text is a challenge for students. Here are some strategies for helping students complete close reading.
In this lesson, students prepare for and participate in a short text-based discussion in which they describe threats to human rights in Chapters 1-3 of Esperanza Rising, using both the Esperanza Rising text and the UDHR, and discuss how those threats made them feel. This is in preparation for the end of unit assessment in Lesson 12, in which students have the same discussion, but this time about Chapters 4-6 (RL.5.1, RI.5.1, W.5.9a, SL.5.1).
At the beginning of the lesson, students complete an entrance ticket about how "Los Melones" fits into the overall structure of the story. This activity serves two purposes: Students will be answering the same question in exactly the same format on the End of Unit 1 Assessment about a different chapter of Esperanza Rising, and it is a lead-in to updating the Structure of Esperanza Rising anchor chart (RL.5.5).
At the end of the lesson, students reflect on their performance in the discussion to suggest improvements for the next text-based discussion.
Continue to use Goal 1 Conversation Cues to promote productive and equitable conversation.
In this lesson, the habit of character focus is on working to become an ethical person. Students are introduced to the characteristics of empathy and compassion as they discuss how the threats to human rights make them feel. Students also continue to practice respect as they have a respectful collaborative discussion.
The research reading that students complete for homework will help build both their vocabulary and knowledge pertaining to human rights. By participating in this volume of reading over a span of time, students will develop a wide base of knowledge about the world and the words that help describe and make sense of it.
In this lesson, students continue reading Love That Dog to analyze what happened in those pages and how Jack felt about it (RL.4.1, RL.4.3). Students then closely read "Street Music" by Arnold Adoff (in the back of Love That Dog), to identify characteristics of poetry (RL.4.5).
In this lesson, students prepare for and participate in a short text-based discussion in preparation for the end of unit assessment in Lesson 12 (RL.4.1, RL.4.5, W.4.9a, SL.4.1).
In this lesson, the habit of character focus is on working to become an ethical person. The characteristic that students practice is respect, as they have a respectful collaborative discussion.
Students practice their fluency in this lesson by following along and reading silently in their heads as the teacher reads Love That Dog aloud during Work Time A.
The research reading that students complete for homework will help build both their vocabulary and knowledge pertaining to poetry and creative writing. By participating in this volume of reading over a span of time, students will develop a wide base of knowledge about the world and the words that help describe and make sense of it.
Students will review text features via pear deck. This is an interactive PowerPoint with Pear Deck. Make sure you download the Pear Deck add-in in PowerPoint 365 or Slides, and present from it. Alternatively, you can go to https://www.peardeck.com/ and present from there. You will need to create an account to use Pear Deck. A basic Pear Deck account is free.
This 18 day unit explicitly teaches text structures, summary, text features, reading informational text about Mesopotamia, and writing a book about Mesopotamia. Instruction moves from high scaffolding to moderate scaffolding to independent practice as students become familiar with the various text structures, how to identify them, what graphic organizer will work with each text structure, how to use notes recorded in graphic organizers to write summaries, and how to compile an informational book. Mesopotamia is the content used as an anchor.
An introduction to emotional and logical appeals, using To Kill a Mockingbird and the Civil Rights Movement as context.
This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Haley Cooprider teach about identifying rhyming words and the letters t, v, r, and x.
Lesson plan to focus on setting
Icebreaker
--Encourages student voice and opinion.
--Allows students to become familiar with one another.
--Students practice speaking, listening, and justifying stances.
--Teachers can get to know their students.
--Practice attention getting signals and routines.
Inspired by Things That Rock from Hebern, M. & Corippo, J. (2018). The EduProtocol field guide : 16 student-centered lesson frames for infinite learning possibilities. San Diego, CA: Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc.
This lesson focuses on artworks that depict things people use for a meal. Students will build vocabulary and enhance language arts skills while learning about still life in a painting. Activities emphasize prepositions of location -- through discussions about objects depicted in the featured work of art.
This lesson focuses on artworks that depict things people wear. Students will build vocabulary and enhance language arts skills while learning about different media (painting and photography). Activities emphasize descriptions using adjectives -- through discussions about the clothing people are wearing in the featured works of art.
Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson. Transcription by William Maury Morris.
This is a graphic organizer with three boxes in portrait layout. I am using it for the monster descriptive writing activity.
At a time when most African Americans were slaves, Benjamin Banneker was born free in 1731. Known and admired for his work in science, mathematics, and astronomy, he built a strike clock based on his own drawings and using a pocket-knife at the age of 22. The resource includes a lesson plan/book card, a design challenge, and copy of a design thinking journal that provide guidance on using the book to inspire students' curiosity for design thinking. Maker Challenge: Find a discarded object that can be taken apart. Take apart the item and make your own Things Come Apart arrangement.
A document is included in the resources folder that lists the complete standards-alignment for this book activity.
For this assignment, students will learn about the difference between mood and tone in writing. They will watch a video explaining the difference, work through a website with words writers would use to convey tone or mood, and end with an assignment where they will describe the tone or mood in pictures and passages from books.
Students learn how to create an effective opinion piece step-by-step. This can be used for any opinion topic. Rubric included.
In-depth study of a topic in current phonological theory.