This literacy assessment is based on a chapter from a book about math and how it connects to everyday life and includes one text and ten text-dependent questions and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS.
This lesson pairs a magazine article about the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck in 1975 with the Gordon Lightfoot song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." After comparing and contrasting the elements of each text, students will choose a historical event and, using the song as a model, create a narrative poem about their chosen event. In addition, more contemporary songs and current events will also work for this activity.
In the TED Ed lesson focused on language, students will explore spelling, meaning, and the complex history behind the structure of words. Discussion questions and additional resources are linked in the sidebar.
This literacy assessment includes two text excerpts and 13 text-dependent questions and explanatory information for teachers regarding alignment to the CCSS.
Although virtually unknown during her life, this visionary New England poet is now praised as one of America's most original writers. The Big Read Readers Guide deepens your exploration with biography, timelines, and historical information. We hope these educational materials allow you to have fun with your students while introducing them to the work of a great American poet.
A series of grade-level worksheets on the correct use of punctuation marks.
This resource contains lessons, Powerpoints, and activities on semicolons, colons, sentence combining, and commas.
In this review activity designed to reinforce student understanding of grammar, punctuation, and spelling, the class will be divided into teams that race against each other to correctly identify and correct sentences on the board.
This resource contains a Powerpoint on commas, colons, semicolons, as well as worksheets on the correct use of semicolons.
In this resource from PBS Learning Media, students will learn spelling rules and conventions that pertain to i before e, plurals of nouns ending in y, and homophones. They will complete an activity in which they identify and revise misspelled words in sentences.
In this lesson, students explore the important elements of resume writing by using fictional characters from books they've read to create resumes. Students first examine what goes into a good resume, then choose a fictional character to create one for.
Students are invited to explore the cultural offerings around them "” from architecture to books, dance, fashion, film, food, music, theater, TV and video games "” and write reviews about what they experience. The New York Times models along with advice from current Times critics to help them through the process.
In this lesson, students edit paragraphs to include quotation marks in order to explore how to use them properly.
This resource provides a lesson designed to assist learners with successfully writing an argumentative essay. Students will view a presentation, review basic, essay elements and attempt to defend, challenge or qualify claims of their stance regarding passion over reason.
A handout/tutorial on comma usage including the mnemonic device FANBOYS, common sentence inturrupters, and comma splice confusions.
A handout/tutorial on the correct use of quotations in one's writing.
In the 1850's abolition was not a widely embraced movement in the U.S. It was considered radical and extreme. In his speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" Frederick Douglas sought to make abolition acceptable to Northern whites. In addition to making historical points about attitudes towards slavery in the 19th century, this speech can be used to teach formal rhetoric. The lesson features five interactive activities requiring close reading and analysis of Frederick's use of language and rhetorical strategies.
In the TED Ed lesson focused on grammar, students will explore the proper use of apostrophes in writing. Discussion questions and additional resources are linked in the sidebar.
Say the word "doubt" aloud. What is that "b" doing there? Does it have any purpose? This three-minute video explains the long and winding history of "doubt" and why spelling, though it seems random at times, is a wink to a storied past.
This lesson examines Charlotte Perkin Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaer" through critcal reading and analysis of the short story. Students will also use text-dependent questions to write a reflective, thematic essay.