Reinforce student understanding of parts of speech through the analysis of sample cinquain poems followed by the creation of original cinquains.
This Composition Reader is an edited, curated collection of OER material for you to use as you see fit in your course. It consists of personal essays, literature, video and audio files, web writing, and long-form journalism.
This video defines compound words and provides examples.
FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains Comprehension Activities, a page of activities to address important comprehension skills and strategies.
Children will learn how to correctly hold a book, notice the spacing between words, tie illustrations to text, and track the words with a finger. Children will demonstrate that reading is done left to right, top to bottom, and front to back.
What is a biography? Who are the people who represent Americans in Congress? How do you compose a biography about one of the representatives?
In this unit, students become active archivists, gathering photos, artifacts, and stories for a museum exhibit that highlights one decade in their school's history.
Implementing literacy coaching is a complex process that includes several areas for consideration. District and school-level administrators, coaches, and teachers may be unaware of what they can do to help ensure coaches are as effective as possible in their role. Presented in this infographic are four specific areas shown from the research to be important when planning for and implementing literacy coaching.
In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how the theory that explains the position of Earth's continents was established and later modified, and gain important insights into how science and the scientific community operate.
Children will talk about and measure ingredients to make fry bread.
Students explore the menu genre by analyzing existing menus from local restaurants. They review adjectives and descriptive writing and then work in groups to create their own custom menus.
This lesson takes advantage of students' interest in music and audio sharing. Students investigate multiple perspectives in the music downloading debate and develop a persuasive argument for a classroom debate.
Students investigate how and why copyright law has changed over time, and apply this information to recent copyright issues, creating persuasive arguments based on the perspective of a particular group.
This guide outlines the Utah Core standards for 1st Grade English Language Arts.
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This guide outlines the Utah Core standards for 5th Grade English Language Arts.
This guide outlines the Utah Core standards for Kindergarten English Language Arts.
Students will eat up this lesson about oranges as they practice the skills that help them investigate and make detailed observations for descriptive purposes.