This lesson uses tall tale read alouds to reinforce the common elements, or text structure, of tall tales. As the text is read aloud, students examine the elements of the book that are characteristic of tall tales. Then using what they've learned, they write and perform tall tales of their own.

After examining recipes written based on students' favorite fairy tales, students research a recipe related to their favorite story, book, or fairy tale and include it in a classroom recipe book.

This Remote Learning Plan was created by Denise Klaus in collaboration with Andrew Easton as part of the 2020 ESU-NDE Remote Learning Plan Project. Educators worked with coaches to create Remote Learning Plans as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.The attached Remote Learning Plan is designed for K-1 language arts students. Students will create a list of subjects that have both Fiction and Nonfiction books. This Remote Learning Plan addresses the following NDE Standards: 0.4.1a, 1.4.1a It is expected that this Remote Learning Plan will take students approximately 30 minutes to complete. Here is the direct link to the Google Doc:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1aNPBoCYen-Ne25FMo5FtZdw2xIpdWIb5ssYQSz1ryTo/edit#slide=id.p2

This Remote Learning Plan was created by Elizabeth Loehr in collaboration with Eileen Barks and Caryn Ziettlow as part of the 2020 ESU-NDE Remote Learning Plan Project. Educators worked with coaches to create Remote Learning Plans as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.The attached Remote Learning Plan is designed for Grade 8 Reading students. Students will summarize, analyze, and synthesize the connection between main ideas of two informational texts. Students will analyze the social, historical, cultural, and biographical influences in informational texts. This Remote Learning Plan addresses the following NDE Standard: LA 8.1.6.e and LA 8.1.6.h It is expected that this Remote Learning Plan will take students 45  minutes to complete. Here is the direct link to the Google Doc: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ekYpo8pbtwoRwl90uBSkI9lvmrLsA2UQ/view?usp=sharing

This resource was designed for use by Upper Elementary, Middle School, and Special Education StudentsDuration:  This lesson will take approximately four days to complete.  However, the skills will be utilized throughout the year; therefore, periodic review may be necessary.Overview:  This resource was created and provides a review of text features that are used by authors in nonfiction writing.  This can be used for upper elementary students, middle school students, or special education classes.Objectives:The student will be able to identify text features in nonfiction texts.The student will be able to state how text features assist the reader.The student will be able to use text features to find information.

This lesson is intended for seventh grade students.  The lesson will take two days to complete - 45 minutes each day.Objectives:  The student will be able to state the meaning of: reciprocial conversation, not reciprocal conversation, on topic.  The student will be able to identify a conversation as reciprocal or not reciprocal.  The student will be able to carry on a reciprocal conversation with at least four exchanges.Instructional OrderDay 1 - Direct Instruction            Guided PracticeDay 2 - Review            Pair & Share

This Remote Learning Plan was created by Elizabeth Loehr in collaboration with Eileen Barks and Caryn Ziettlow as part of the 2020 ESU-NDE Remote Learning Plan Project. Educators worked with coaches to create Remote Learning Plans as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.The attached Remote Learning Plan is designed for Grade 7 Reading students. Students will use new vocabulary to create an original piece with the purpose of utilizing those words in other situations. This Remote Learning Plan addresses the following NDE Standard: LA 7.1.5.c It is expected that this Remote Learning Plan will take students 45 to complete. Here is the direct link to the Google Doc: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LrgmV6Dz5CkotohJtN6ET4qC5TMLtz6j/view?usp=sharing

This is an activity that includes student's own ideas and beliefs about the central ideas and important parts of the text. Students will also do a bit of writing to support their opinions. This activity gets at the heart of a text. I see this as introductory to deeper dives into theme. This lesson could be structured to be online or face to face. This is written as a class activity but an online discussion could easily be created after students had followed the protocol a few times and seen the discussion that results. This could easily work in many classrooms through high school.

This resource was created by Jenn Crosley, in collaboration with Dawn DeTurk, Hannah Blomstedt, and Julie Albrecht, as part of ESU2's Integrating the Arts project. This project is a four year initiative focused on integrating arts into the core curriculum through teacher education, practice, and coaching.

This resource was created by Maelynn Liewer, in collaboration with Dawn DeTurk, Hannah Blomstedt, and Julie Albrecht, as part of ESU2's Integrating the Arts project. This project is a four year initiative focused on integrating arts into the core curriculum through teacher education, practice, and coaching.

Students will describe the plot and study traits, motivations and feelings using Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens.

The Story Map interactive is designed to assist students in prewriting and postreading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution.

This resource was created by Ginny Callahan, in collaboration with Dawn DeTurk, Hannah Blomstedt, and Julie Albrecht, as part of ESU2's Integrating the Arts project. This project is a four year initiative focused on integrating arts into the core curriculum through teacher education, practice, and coaching.

This handout is a short set of questions for students to use to explore the elements of the mystery genre. When they use thisy, students will be able toList core elements of mystery storiesIdentify how the core elements of a mystery story are manifested in a story they are currently reading.  

The purpose of this lesson is to help students develop their paraphrasing and summarizing skills. Focusing on the I do, We do, You do method, the lesson is collaborative between teachers and students. Objectives:paraphrase information in a nonfiction textconnect like ideas and combine sentencescreate a summary of a piece of nonfiction edit writing for mechanics, usage, grammar, and spelling errorspublish a summary Approx. Time: one week

Even among educators who have been successful at educating ELLs under traditional supports and programs, the level of knowledge required to do the job successfully has increased. This paper considers more aggressive and creative capacity-building initiatives that strengthen and integrate the disciplinary teaching strategies with literacy and language development strategies. The authors discuss the value and implications of new partnerships, of structures for collaboration, and of time dedicated to engaging experts from different fields in the design and delivery of teacher preparation and professional development.

Stories and poems that have a familiar structure can create a supportive context for learning about the writing process, building students' background knowledge, and scaffolding their creation of original stories. In this lesson for students in second or late first grade, teachers help students explore the concepts of beginning, middle, and ending by reading a variety of stories and charting the events on storyboards. As they retell the stories, students are encouraged to make use of sequencing words (first, so, then, next, after that, finally). A read-aloud of Once Upon a Golden Apple by Jean Little and Maggie De Vries introduces a discussion of the choices made by an author in constructing a plot. Starting with prewriting questions and a storyboard, students construct original stories, progressing from shared writing to guided writing; independent writing is also encouraged.

Students tell their life stories in this lesson about autobiographies based on family photographs.