In this lesson, students use the Cornell notes tool to do close reading of informational text.
This teacher's guide for The Dark Side of Nowhere by Neal Shusterman contains a summary of the text, discussion questions, activities, and research assignments.
In this lesson, students watch the movie for "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte and visually discover the elements of the novel.
A group of discussion questions for Ishmael Beah's memoir, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
This resource contains a set of discussion questions for The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
This lesson reinforces the elements of a short story including character, plot development, point of view, and tone and has students create a “visual†report of the literary elements with a short story. The report is a 12-sided ball called a dodecahedron.
This teacher's guide for Doll Bones by Holly Black contains a prereading activity, discussion questions, and postreading assignments.
This story is set in a Tennessee peach orchard on the night before the Civil War battle of Shiloh. A young drummer briefly considers staying behind when the fighting begins. Then a man walks by and stops to talk, and the boy discovers that this man is his general. From their discussion, the boy arrives at a new understanding about his role in the battle to come. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
In this lesson, the students will get practice in reading and writing habits that they have been working with throughout the curriculum, in this case using poetry.
As a way to support teachers with English Language Arts (ELA) instruction during the pandemic, the NCDPI ELA team created choice boards featuring standards-aligned ELA activities.The intended purpose of these choice boards is to provide a way for students to continue standards-based learning while schools are closed. Each activity can be adapted and modified to be completed with or without the use of digital tools. Many activities can also be repeated with different texts. These standards-based activities are meant to be a low-stress approach to reinforcing and enriching the skills learned during the 2019-2020 school year. The choice boards are to be used flexibly by teachers, parents, and students in order to meet the unique needs of each learner.Exploration activities are provided for a more self-directed or guided approach to independent learning for students. These activities and sites should be used as a way to explore concepts, topics, skills, and social and emotional competencies that interest the learner.
This lesson moves beyond typical character analysis lessons by asking students to identify reasonable occupations for characters based on the characters’ qualities as evidenced in the story. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.
In this lesson the students will be using a variety of skills to analyze fiction and expository texts. This combines the reading of detective fiction with written expository analysis in the form of a Detective’s Handbook. Each student reads a detective mystery, and the class watches and analyzes Murder She Purred to establish a collective example.
This page contains a set of general discussion questions for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.
This page contains a set of reading question for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.
Students work together in small groups to read, discuss, and analyze fairy tales. After compiling a list of common elements, students collaborate on their own original fairy tales—based on events from their own lives or the lives of someone they know. Each student decides what kind of experience to write about, composes and revises a fairy tale, and then presents their story to the rest of the class.
A mentally challenged man is presented with an opportunity to have an operation that will triple his intelligence. The story chronicles the journey that he takes as his intelligence progresses and regresses. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
Johnny, the narrator, and McDunn, the lighthouse keeper (Johnny's boss), are working in a lighthouse on a November evening. McDunn shares his experience of witnessing strange sea mysteries, including the sighting of a monster that appears at this time each year. In this CCSS lesson, students will explore this story through text dependent questions, academic vocabulary, and writing assignments.
In this lesson, using a Jigsaw protocol, students return to the novel, citing evidence from the poems “Choice” and “Left Behind” to explain how this incident reveals aspects of Ha and her family members.
In this lesson, students begin the novel Inside Out & Back Again and begin to make inferences about the main character, Ha.