Use this in in connection with Identifying Claims and EvidenceAfter reading "The School Uniform Question", students will use the rubric to grade the argument then explain their scoring.
This lesson prepares students to be independent and responsible for their own just-right book selections during independent reading time. Using the BOOKMATCH poster, the teacher introduces various criteria that influence book selection, such as length, language, topic, and genre. Students select books for independent reading using several of these criteria. In subsequent lessons, they discuss and evaluate their book choices and are introduced to additional selection criteria. Ongoing support and practice lead to increased awareness of their personal preferences as readers.
In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this history through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
Rubric for use with oral presentations--works for multiple grades.
This article describes a performance assessment that concludes a fourth-grade oceanography unit.
This resource allows students to receive feedback regarding their project.
This lesson provides a clear example of an author who created four specific voices. By reading and discussing the characters in Anthony Browne's picture book, Voices in the Park, students will gain a clear understanding of how to use voice in their own writing. Students begin by giving a readers? theater performance of the book and then discuss and analyze the voices heard. They then discuss the characters? personalities and find supporting evidence from the text and illustrations. Finally, students apply their knowledge by writing about a situation in a specific voice, making their character?s voice clear to the reader.
This resource contains a lesson plan for assisting students with a culminating activity during a reading of Romeo and Juliet. Students are tasked with reading a critical essay independently. Afterwards, students are required to draw evidence from the essay, other readings, discussions and any other applicable materials used for a study of the play. The lesson may be used as a guide and may be manipulated to include resources that were aligned by the instructor. The resource contains applicable handouts to include: worksheets and graphic organizers.