Students read Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis, demonstrate comprehension of the story by involving themselves in discussions, and analyze the characters in preparation for a class "press conference."
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
This is a lesson plan, student worksheet, and teacher answer key to introduce identifying text structures and using appropriate graphic organizers (GO) for each text structure. There is an introduction with a video lecture from which students can get basic information and examples on 6 text structures. There is a link to more guided and independent work in this area. The author used this lesson in a pre-GED Adult Basic Education class with non-native English speakers who read at a 5.0 - 8.0 GLE.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Review the 8 Parts of Speech
Material Type: Lecture
Using The Giver, students discuss the importance recorded history. This provides context for descriptive writing of students own history in a lesson that integrates personal writing, research, and literary response.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
The students will examine their knowledge of the parts of speech with this fun game of mad libs. The teacher provides them with a story of his or her own authorship, which contains a series of blanks where the student must write a word from the corresponding part of speech in order to make the story their own.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Game
Sophia.org materials, slides and audio about parts of speech.
Material Type: Lecture
Students analyze propaganda techniques used in pieces of literature and political advertisements. They then look for propaganda in other media, such as print ads and commercials.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
This video, adapted from material provided by the ECHO partners, illustrates how Native people preserve history and tradition through art, music, and dance.
Material Type: Lecture
The Folger Shakespeare Library provides the full searchable text of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to read online or download as a PDF. All of the lines are numbered sequentially to make it easier and more convenient to find any line.
Material Type: Reading
Cinderella without castles, coaches, or ball gowns? Students use versions of Cinderella to explore how the setting of a story--time, place, and culture--affects the characters and plot.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
Students learn about water poverty and how water engineers can develop appropriate solutions to a problem that is plaguing nearly a sixth of the world's population. Students follow the engineering design process to design a gravity-fed water system. They choose between different system parameters such as pipe sizes, elevation differentials between entry and exit pipes, pipe lengths and tube locations to find a design that provides the maximum flow and minimum water turbidity (cloudiness) at the point of use. In this activity, students play the role of water engineers by designing and building model gravity-fed water systems, learning the key elements necessary for viable projects that help improve the lives people in developing communities.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
What's that sound? Students participate in a Directed Listening-Thinking Activity (DLTA) using "The Tell-Tale Heart," make predictions, and respond in the form of an acrostic poem or comic strip.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
This speaking lesson on countries (WIDA: Emerging) is great for getting students talking, whilst helping them feel represented and valued in the classroom. Objectives: Introduce vocabulary to describe countries. Can do: At the end of the lesson, students can ask and answer simple questions about countries. To access 150+ free ESL lesson plans like this, sign up for a free Off2Class account: https://app.off2class.com/auth/register!
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