In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
In this lesson, student partners practice new words using their verbal, visual, and kinesthetic intelligences.
The highwayman is an eighteenth century thief, who promises to return to his love Bess, the landlord’s daughter. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
In this lesson student groups create story sheets with missing vocabulary words in order to locate context clues, justify their work, and evaluate their responses.
In this lesson, students practice analyzing word meanings by learning root words and affixes. They work in a variety of ways with a list of about 20 common but challenging words to learn the definition and spelling of each. Then students get in small groups to design and play the Make-a-Word card game, during which they must form complete words with three cards: a prefix, a root word, and a suffix.
Teachers and students can click through each stanza to learn about alliteration, assonance, and internal rhyme, as well as certain vocabulary words.
Students will complete a word map for building vocabulary by following the eight perscribed steps. Students will also increase their retention of selected vocabulary by making a personal connection to each word. In addition, students will demonstrate internalization of vocabulary by writing an original sentence using the chosen word. Finally, students will generate a journal response by reflecting to this way of learning vocabulary words.
In this lesson students will analyze idioms in order to comprehend their literal meanings through illustrations and paraphrasing.
Jabberwocky is an epic poem told through nonsense words. The poem relates a father’s quest for his son that involves the slaying of a beast (The Jabberwock). The poem charts the son’s progress from his departure to his successful return. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this poem through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
This autobiographical piece tells what a neat, tidy rule-follower this author was in his youth—except for his yo-yo. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
In this lesson, students complete a literary analysis on a Shakespearean Sonnet, understand the language that empowers the piece, and gain inspiration from Shakespeare's words to write their own sonnet.
Students will read a text, use context clues in order to determine the best words to complete the text, and write synonyms for those words. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
Students will read "Annabel Lee," read questions, and write an example of internal rhyme, answers based on the text, an example of alliteration, and an explanation of the author's use of repetition. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
Students will read background information, a passage, information, vocabulary words, and vocabulary in context. Students will write answers to questions, quotations to support a main idea, and a response to a prompt. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
Students will read sentences and use context clues in order to determine the meaning of an underlined word. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
This simple, straightforward lesson helps English language learners and others practice context clues, close reading, questioning and discussion of text.
Students will read a description of and passage from L. Frank Baum's work, characters' descriptions, questions, vocabulary, definitions, text excerpts, and a writing prompt. Students will write short answers, quotations to support a main idea, and an essay. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
Students will read sentences and use context clues to infer the meaning of underlined words. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.
In this lesson, students will build background knowledge through reading an excerpt about different tribes in Sudan and the role these tribes played in the Sudanese civil war. In this lesson, the excerpt is read for gist.
In this lesson, students will analyze the main idea of an informational text, "You Trouble" by Justin O'Neill.