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Brochure Writing
Have your budding authors evaluate various writing styles found in informational brochures. They look for effective writing, compare and contrast styles, and create an assessment.
EngageNY
Author’s Craft: Analyzing Narrative Techniques (Pages 73–113)
Scholars discuss a reading selection in Unbroken by writing to a partner about text selection. After completing the writing, learners revisit the use of active and passive sentences by reviewing a second Active and Passive Sentences...
Curated OER
Analyzing Two or More Nonfiction Texts
How does recognizing the author's purpose help you draw conclusions about a topic? Using two articles (both are attached), learners brainstorm why each author wrote each article. Are their purposes similar or different? Learners use a...
Education World
Every Day Edit - Author Virginia Hamilton
In this editing activity, learners correct grammatical mistakes—including punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar—in a short paragraph about author Virginia Hamilton.
Brigham Young University
HOOT Directed Reading Thinking Activity
It's helpful to encourage kids to make predictions when beginning a reading unit. Before reading Hoot by Carl Hiaasen, have kids read Susan Barlow Broggi's Am I Grown Up When I'm Not Afraid of Spiders in My Shoes? to make predictions...
Curated OER
Truth and Lies Games
Students participate in a get to know you activity. In this social lesson, students write three statements about themselves. One is true and the other is false. Students read their cards and their peers decide what is true and what is not.
Education World
Every Day Edit - Madeline
For this everyday editing activity, learners correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about the popular children's book, Madeline. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
ReadWriteThink
Biography Project: Research and Class Presentation
I Have A Dream ... that after the lesson, all individuals master the reading, writing, researching, listening, and speaking skills the biography project helps them develop. Martin Luther King, Jr. serves as a topic example for a model...
Curated OER
Appropriate Use of Helping Verbs
Intended for learners struggling with or having issues using auxiliary verbs, this activity has them orally compose sentences using one of the provided helping verbs. They will attempt to find patterns in groups of verbs and make class...
Curated OER
Movie Music
Young scholars discover film making by participating in a music performance. For this performance arts lesson, students perform music and physical acting to convey an already written script for their peers. Young scholars collaborate...
Education World
Every Day Edit - Dr. Seuss
For this editing learning exercise about Dr. Seuss, pupils read and edit a short paragraph. Students look for 10 errors in capitalization punctuation, spelling and/or grammar.
Curated OER
Indispensable Listening Skills
It's true: listening skills have to be taught and developed. Read this story about a tiger to your high school class. Then, without giving them a copy of the story, divide them into teams and have them attempt to answer a series of...
Curated OER
They Put on Masks
Students discover Native American culture by creating masks. In this customs instructional activity, students create their own masks in class from plaster and paint. Students perform a skit in front of their school showcasing their...
Curated OER
Chemical Changes
Students compare types of chemical change. In this chemical reaction lesson, students use a variety of household items to investigate different types of chemical change. Students will engage in a discussion about the dangers of chemicals...