In this lesson, students will dissect a Times column about the leadership styles of former Vice President (and Nobel Laureate) Al Gore and President George W. Bush and then write their own opinion editorial on presidential leadership.
The objective of this activity is to reinforce the importance of being specific while dealing with events of a sequential nature, such as the phases of the moon.
The students will read and reread the passage closely, and focusing their reading through either a series of questions and discussion about the text or the structured journal approach outlined here, students will come away with a working knowledge of the digestive system, its parts, and how they function together.
Speech writing is a rhetorical art and provides the content for these scaffolded lessons that support the increased cognitive rigor of literacy standards with presidential writings.
In this lesson, students learn about proverbs: how they work, how they differ from cliches, how to interpret them, and how they can be culturally and personally significant. Students begin by talking about proverbs, interview family and friends to find proverbs that were not discussed in class, and figuring out the meaning of proverbs by creating a new definition of proverbs based on what they've learned.
In this lesson, students analyze Kurlansky’s point of view, digging deeper into Chapter 4 by reading for the gist and answering text-dependent questions to gain a deeper understanding of the text and prepare to analyze point of view in the next lesson.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade English Language Arts.
This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for 6th Grade ELA.
The selection is about Ghana, an ancient culture that was one of Africa’s great trading empires in the third century A.D. Gold mines, extensive trading, and advanced farming villages all contributed to the rise and success of Ghana. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this history through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments. Includes printable copies of text.
This PBL project incorporates science and history into one project.
Students summarize a piece of scientific text and assess the advantages, disadvantages and challenges in writing summaries. Students analyze the structure an author gives to a text, comprehending how major sections contribute to the overall understanding of the topic. They then select science-related articles from The New York Times or other scientific publications, and, with a partner, generate summaries of the longer pieces. Teachers vary the text according to their needs.
In this lesson, students are introduced to the genre of American tall tales. Students are exposed to several traditional tall tales, then prompted to write an original tall tale set in contemporary America. The tall tale must address a current event or issue and must feature a "larger-than-life" main character. The students use exaggeration and hyperbole to portray the way in which the main character resolves the issue or problem. Students then dramatize their tall tales for the class.
In this lesson, students read an article that compares the seasons on Earth to those on Mars. Students will participate in a roundtable discussion in order to practice active listening, develop scientific literacy, and identify and address common misconceptions.
In this lesson, students read an article that compares the dwarf planet Pluto with its relatively large moon Charon. As they read, they will identify evidence in the text that describes similarities and differences. Students will organize their ideas in a Venn diagram and then write a comparison paragraph.
In this lesson, students will continue to dig deeper into paragraphs 12-14 of Steve Jobs' Commencement Address, using the Odell Forming Evidence Based claims graphic organizer in order to make a claim to answer a question.
Lessons, activities and quizzes on identifying varying text structures including cause and effect, narrative, chronological, cause and effect, sequence, and process structures.
This is a digital anchor chart.
This is a digital anchor chart.
This lesson incorporates citing textual evidence to support claims as well as identifying text structures.
This lesson from the New York Times offers suggestions for making TheTimes a low-stress part of your classroom routine, followed by literacy strategies to help address the Standards before, during, and after reading Times content with your students.