New York State Education Department
Comprehensive English Examination: August 2013
Individuals exercise their minds by taking the Comprehensive Examination in English, which assesses listening and reading comprehension and writing aptitude. Scholars answer multiple-choice questions and write two short-response essays....
EngageNY
Scaffolding for Essay: Examining a Model and Introducing the NYS Grade 6–8 Expository Writing Evaluation Rubric
Write it down. Scholars take a close look at essay writing by examining the New York state writing rubric. They then discuss a model essay and compare the model essay to the What Makes a Literary Analysis Essay Effective? Anchor Chart....
New York State Education Department
Comprehensive English Examination: August 2011
Ever wished for a way to assess all areas of reading? Scholars take a comprehension English exam that assesses listening skills, passage and poetry reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing. The final tasks allow pupils to choose...
New York State Education Department
Comprehensive English Examination: June 2012
Don't be so critical! During the final task of the Comprehensive English Exam, scholars choose two texts from their reading to discuss a perspective given from a critical lens. The exam also includes multiple choice reading comprehension...
Curated OER
Final Sounds: B vs. P
In this word and letter recognition worksheet, students examine 6 words that are missing final letters. Students fill in the blanks with the letters b or p. Picture clues are included. Students also practice tracing the letters.
Curated OER
Final Sounds: B
In this word and letter recognition worksheet, students examine 6 words that are missing letters. Students fill in only the blanks with the letter b that should end in letter b. Picture clues are included. Students also practice tracing...
Curated OER
Final Sounds: N
In this word and letter recognition activity, students examine 6 words that are missing letters. Students fill in only the blanks with the letter n that should end in letter n. Picture clues are included. Students also practice tracing...
Curated OER
Final Sounds: ng
For this word and letter recognition worksheet, students examine 6 words that are missing letters. Students fill in only the blanks with the letters ng that should end with the letters ng. Picture clues are included. Students also...
Curated OER
Final Sounds: Y
In this word and letter recognition worksheet, students examine 6 words that are missing letters. Students fill in only the blanks with the letter y that should end with the letter y. Picture clues are included. Students also practice...
Curated OER
Final Sounds: ch
In this word and letter recognition worksheet, students examine 6 words that are missing letters. Students fill in only the blanks with the letters ch that should end with the letters ch. Picture clues are included. Students also...
Curated OER
Final Sounds: ck
In this word and letter recognition worksheet, students examine 6 words that are missing letters. Students fill in only the blanks with the letters ck that should end with the letters ck. Picture clues are included. Students also...
Curated OER
Final Sounds: sh
In this word and letter recognition worksheet, students examine 6 words that are missing letters. Students fill in only the blanks with the letters sh that should end with the letters sh. Picture clues are included. Students also...
Simon & Schuster
Classroom Activities for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
A 16-page packet includes three activities for a unit study of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Before beginning the novel, class members identify the factors in their lives that helped create their frame of reference,...
K20 LEARN
Show Me Your Credentials: Voting In America
The debate over voting rights continues. To begin their study of voting rights, class members first vote on proposed new classroom rules. After a discussion of the activity, groups are given a copy of the 1965 Alabama Literacy Test and...
Texas Education Agency (TEA)
Simile and Metaphor (English III Reading)
The key idea in this interactive exercise designed for high schoolers is that figurative language, especially similes, and metaphors, add layers of meaning to a text. Users examine examples from speeches, ads, movie dialogue, and poems,...
News Literacy Project
News Goggles: Quotes in News Reports
To quote or paraphrase? That is the question examined by a 29-slide presentation on the importance of including direct quotes in news reporting.
Curated OER
The Final Countdown
Students examine the United States electoral college system as it applies to the 2004 presidential election. They investigate the impact of the twelve battleground states in the 2004 election and develop informative pamphlets on the...
Curated OER
Lesson 4: The Judiciary: A Brief Introduction to the Courts System
Focusing on the judicial branch of government, the fourth lesson in this series explores the structure of the US courts system. Beginning with an engaging activity based on the short story The Lady or the Tiger, students go on to examine...
Facing History and Ourselves
The Impact of Identity
How does identity influence the way people respond to events? That is the central question class members grapple with as they examine a political cartoon, read a vignette by Sandra Cisneros, watch of video of police officers discussing...
Facing History and Ourselves
Civil Rights Historical Investigations
The murder of Emmett Till, the Selma to Montgomery march, and the desegregation of Boston schools are the focus of three units that ask class members to investigate why these events were so key in the struggle for civil rights. Groups...
Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program
Reading Literature - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” Ambrose Bierce’s short story, is used to model how structural moves, the decisions an author makes about setting, point of view, time order, etc., can be examined to reveal an author’s purpose. Groups...
University of Arkansas
Assessment and Discussion
"Without concerned citizen action to uphold them (human rights) close to home; we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world. . ." Eleanor Roosevelt's comment is used to set the stage for the conclusion of a five-lesson unit...
National Endowment for the Humanities
“House by the Railroad”: A Painting and a Poem for the Common Core
Introduce your class to ekphrastic poetry with an exercise that asks them to examine Edward Hooper's painting House by the Railroad and Edward Hirsch's poem "Edward Hopper and the House By the Railroad." After a close reading of the two...
Core Knowledge Foundation
Kindergarten Skills Unit 6
Throughout 15 lessons, scholars explore four and five-sound and rhyming words, closely examining initial and final consonant sounds, and begin reading the text independently. Each lesson follows a similar routine; an introduction to...