I designed this unit to help Grades 4-6 Teachers in Ontario teach the Media Literacy strand of the Language curriculum. This full unit includes: -Learning Goal and Success Criteria -Mock Print Advertisements -Lessons on the following: -What is media? -Purpose, Audience and Message -Who produces media...and why? -Ideas and Opinions Presented in Media -Gimmicks -Parts of Print Advertisements and Commercials -Two final projects: Designing a Print Advertisement and Designing a Commercial -Rubrics for the Projects Please download the preview before purchasing this unit, to see all pages included. Thank you! I hope your students enjoy this unit. This is the pdf version of this unit. If you would prefer a Google Slides version of this unit, you can find it here.
Subject English Language Arts, Science, Engineering Grade Levels 3rd, 4th, 5th Resource Type Lesson Plans (Individual), Activities, Novel Study File Type Compressed Zip File Be sure that you have an application to open this file type before downloading and/or purchasing. 11 MB|141 pages
I finally nailed teaching symbolism! Using candy was both engaging and efficient - a major win that students remembered all year long!
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Our third grade writing program requires each student to complete an animal research paper. My daughter thoroughly enjoyed this project and with the help of her teacher and writing prompts, she wrote an amazing paper
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Stop on over and get a First, Next, Then, Last Graphic Organizer- Can be used for Retelling Stories with ordinal words or for a pre-writing activity. You Might Also Like:Free Visual Notetaking Printables to DownloadFree Printable Graphic Organizers for ReadingGraphic Organizers for Informational TextGraphic Organizers for Reading Comprehension – Perfect for Any Book!
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Scrambled paragraphs are a fun literacy activity your kids will love. This activity contains 5 interesting passages to scramble and re-arrange correctly. Students will use logic and transition words like "for example", "however", and "finally" to determine the correct order. Great activity to reinforce text structures!Each passage contains six sentences. The passages increase in difficulty, making this activity easy to differentiate. This works great as a station activity for helping teach students organization in writing. It can be useful scaffolding for students who are struggling with constructing paragraphs of their own.Answer key is included.No prep, ready to print and use! Teachers are saying: "We loved this resource. I set these up as stations. The kids went around in their groups and tried to put the paragraphs together in the correct order. It was interesting to see how the sequential one was the easiest one for him to complete. This was the perfect activity for our class needs." Format: PDF
Does the following story sound familiar to you? For years, the Social Studies teacher and I banged our heads against a wall with getting our students to fully explain their answers, support their ideas with evidence, and then explain and/or analyze that evidence. We used witty acronyms, taught it consistently across the curriculum, modeled examples... and yet, students still under-performed. My solution... So this year, I decided to make a keepsake/reference tool that our eighth grade students could use all year long (in all content area classes) and even take with them to high school. And voila - the analysis booklets were born. The first (black) booklet is a crash course on what analysis IS and what it LOOKS like in different genres (like on tests, essays, and science lab reports/technical writing). The second (gray) booklet breaks down the 5-step process of fully leading into, stating, analyzing, and transitioning out of a direct quote or fact. After initial instruction, my 8th graders used them to write timed, "open-booklet" literary analysis essays... and, for the first time in five years, a majority of the class could fully embed and analyze direct quotes that logically supported the topic sentences in body paragraphs. (...Imagine my kind-of-freaking-out face inserted here...?!) These worked so well that I just HAD to post them to TpT... My philosophy is, if it works, then other teachers and students could probably use it too, right? ... Enter my friend Nouvelle, another secondary ELA teacher, who bought the booklets and decided to use them in her classroom, too. She made this awesome video to show her kids how to put the booklet together (which we agreed only takes about 20 minutes of total assembly on average), and she gave me permission to share the video with you! She's getting awesome results from her students, and to date, about 20 other teachers seem to feel the same way. Also, in response to a teacher's request, I made an interactive notebook anchor page (so that students can "frame" and keep their booklets safe in their notebooks forever!)... ...and a zoomed-in sample page/poster, ready to print, photocopy, put under a doc camera, or blow up into poster size... I'm really excited to see how these booklets continue to help my students over time, and I hope they make a visible difference in your students' writing, too! Let me know what you think! ;-)
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How to Easily Improve Your Child's Language Using Songs and Music. Today let’s talk about why music is a powerful tool in early intervention and how to use songs in speech therapy (and at home!) to improve your child's language.
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I designed this unit to help Grades 1-3 Teachers in Ontario teach the Media Literacy strand of the Language curriculum. This full unit includes: -Learning Goal and Success Criteria -Lessons on the following: -What is media? -Purpose, Audience and Message -Media and Me (expressing personal thoughts/feelings) -Media and Others (thinking about other audiences' perspectives) -Parts of Magazine Advertisements and Cereal Boxes -Gimmicks -Two final projects: Designing a Magazine Advertisement and Designing a Cereal Box -Rubrics for the Projects Please download the preview before purchasing this unit, to see all pages included. Thank you! I hope your students enjoy this unit. This is the pdf version of the unit. If you would prefer the Google Slides version of this unit, you can find it here.
These English teacher supplies are must haves for quick ELA lesson plans. Pair your back to school wish list with ideas for English teachers!
I finally nailed teaching symbolism! Using candy was both engaging and efficient - a major win that students remembered all year long!
I recently assigned a one pager final project to my sophomores for their culminating Night project. I wanted to combine as many rigorous ELA content ideas as possible, while also designing a fun project for students that provided them with a bit of choice. This Night one pager project was the perfect way to finish the memoir!
There's a lot of ground to cover when you teach creative narrative writing. Here are 5 creative narrative mini-lessons you should be sure to use!
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Here is a perfect challenge to practice using area and perimeter in a design project. Design your Dream House! What a perfect idea this little project is! I still remember designing my dream house when I was a little girl. I filled notebooks with drawings of the rooms and where the furniture would be. I
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