CommonLit
Common Lit: Units: Teaching Units
Complete teaching units (12) by grade level. CommonLit units are crafted to be both engaging and rigorous, featuring a variety of literary and informational texts from diverse sources. Reading, writing, and discussion are prioritized in...
Other
Dade Schools: John Ferguson: Informational Text Features
A table explaining different text features including graphics, visuals, and sections found in text.
Other
Morningside Center: Active Listening
In this instructional activity, students practice active listening by paraphrasing what they hear. Students will practice listening to one another and repeating what they heard. Various listening activities are included in this...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Movie Madness
This language arts projects motivates students through being a movie-based project. This lesson will have a duration of five days. The students will view a movie of their choice and analyze the movie to complete a chart listing literary...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Whose Voice Guides Your Choice?
For this one-two week unit, students explore the role media has in influencing public opinion. Students analyze advertising in print, video, and online formats. An optional visit to the Museum of Television and Radio via distance...
Edutopia
Edutopia: Common Core in Action: 10 Visual Literacy Strategies
Explicitly teach a collection of competencies that will help students think through, think about, and think with pictures.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 6: Out of the Dust
Focused on the Dust Bowl and how families fought for a meaningful existence and survival, this unit will offer students different perspectives on how people respond to adversity, the lessons that can be learned from hardship and failure,...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Structured Notetaking
Structured Notetaking is a strategy that helps students become more effective note takers. Using graphic organizers specific to a particular text, structured notes assist students in understanding the content of their reading.
Other
Braindance: Reading More Selectively
Gives specific advice on the most effective way to gain information through reading, especially necessary because the glut of information has created "an increasing need for the ability to scan." There are suggestions on how to decide...
Other
Learning Enrichment:reading Skills in the Social Studies
Discussion of the critical reading skills needed in Social Studies, although the skills discussed can apply to a variety of areas. This is part of a larger site containing numerous lesson plans for Social Studies, and this page is really...
Other
Frank Baker: Information Literacy Exercise
Using an article from Dateline Hollywood, this lesson explores a media message and examines its content.
EL Education
El Education: Sapling Rise a Micro Field Guide
Students create a field guide for a three foot by three foot plot of ground. Students name their plots, graph temperature, create an inventory and table to record observations, make illustrations, and write informational text based on...
Mind Tools
Mind Tools: Sq3 R Retention of Written Information
SQ3R is a useful technique for fully absorbing written information. It helps you to create a good mental framework of a subject, into which you can fit facts correctly. It helps you to set study goals. It also prompts you to use the...
TES Global
Blendspace: Visualization and Other Reading Strategies
A ten-part learning module with links to images, videos, and texts about reading strategies.
TES Global
Blendspace: Propaganda
A twelve-part learning module with links to images that demonstrate various types of propaganda.
TES Global
Blendspace: Evaluating Websites
A seven-part learning module with links to texts and videos to use while learning how to evaluate websites.
TES Global
Blendspace: Persuasive Techniques in Media
Links to nine videos demonstrating different persuasive techniques used in the media.
Free Management Library
Guidelines for Formatting Articles, Reports, and Papers
This resource presents rules and guidelines for formatting reports.
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
Ncrel Anticipation: Reaction Guide
A model of a quick survey to give students to help them activate their prior knowledge of subject matter. Alter this survey to suit your particular subject.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Recognizing Propaganda: Loaded Language
Lesson plan designed for consumer health class, that is also useful for media literacy. Contains a link to an ad for an abdominal strengthening machine that provides the basis of the lesson. SL.9-10.2 eval & integrate sources
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Academic Tips to Help Kids Learn to Be Effective Students
A teaching resource with information and downloadable handouts on various study skills including the following: Coming to Class Prepared, Student Planers, Good Listening in Class, Taking Notes in Class, Using Acronyms to Remember...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Academic Tips to Help Kids Learn to Be Effective Students
A teaching resource with information and downloadable handouts on various study skills including the following: Coming to Class Prepared, Student Planers, Good Listening in Class, Taking Notes in Class, Using Acronyms to Remember...
Quizlet
Quizlet: 6th Grade Text Structure: Test
This assessment consists of five multiple-choice questions over the types of text structure and organizational patterns.
Other
Frontiernet.net: Note Taking
This site from Frontiernet.net outlines the reason why educators prefer to "lecture" students, as well as the best ways to take notes during these lectures.