This is an introductory lesson to teaching the beginning stages of sentence structure. The teacher will use Picture sorts according to the grammatical function in a sentence. (nouns and verbs)
This activity was created for grade K to coincide with teaching sentence structure
The following lessons are introductory/review lessons for teaching students to distinguish concepts of print: words, and sentences from pictures. These lessons help a student’s oral knowledge by repeating sentences and phrases as well as counting/tapping words in sentences. The teacher will use Picture sorts according to the grammatical function in a sentence. (nouns and verbs)
This activity was created for grade K to coincide with teaching sentence structure
The following lessons are introductory/review lessons for teaching students to distinguish concepts of print: words, and sentences from pictures. These lessons help a student’s oral knowledge by repeating sentences and phrases as well as counting/tapping words in sentences. The teacher will use Picture sorts according to the grammatical function in a sentence. (nouns and verbs)
This activity was created for grade K to coincide with teaching sentence structure
The following lessons are another two weeks' worth of teaching students to distinguish concepts of print, words, and sentences from pictures. It should be paired with Sentence Knowledge weeks 1, 2, 3, and 4, but can be done alone. These lessons help a student's oral knowledge by repeating sentences and phrases as well as counting/tapping words in sentences. The teacher will use picture sorts according to the grammatical function in a sentence (nouns and verbs). This activity was created for grade K to coincide with teaching sentence structure
This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Brandon Thompson teach about making connections of letter sounds to words.
This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Caroline Doughty teach about writing a friendly letter.
This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Dr. Karen Drosinos teach about the letters of the alphabet.
Students will be writing a standard-format letter to the editor of a local newspaper using data and research on an issue they care about that affects others. While it must be a school-appropriate issue, students have the opportunity to select any issue of interest to them to rebut the original writer’s post.** This performance assessment was developed by a collaborative team of teachers and division staff from Middlesex, Poquoson, and West Point school divisions.
A literacy narrative is a piece of writing that describes how you learned something significant about yourself as a reader and/or writer. Literacy narratives are usually told in story form and are heavily reflective. Students will work independently to write a literacy narrative that demonstrates their relationship with reading and/or writing.
This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Haley Cooprider teach about identifying rhyming words and the letters a, s, l, and p.
This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Haley Cooprider teach about identifying rhyming words and the letters c, m, and o.
Students will produce a persuasive analysis essay as a top psychiatrist assessing the mental health of a defendent accused of murder in order to see if he can avoid the death penalty by pleading insanity. ** This performance assessment was developed by a collaborative team of teachers and division staff from Middlesex, Poquoson, and West Point school divisions.
This guided reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” (1842) focuses on expanding vocabulary, developing student understanding of imagery and other figurative language, strengthening reading comprehension, and strengthening expository and persuasive writing skills.
Massive Resistance to school integration was an important part of Virginia history, but it is often not taught or it's glossed over quickly. Students will watch actual newsclips and then write a factual paragraph about Massive Resistance in VA. In this lesson, students will explore the Robert Russa Moton Historical Site on the Civil Rights Trail website. Then they will watch original news clips of different events during the Massive Resistance Movement in Virginia. As they watch the clips they will complete a graphic organizer on the 5 Ws. They will use the information from their graphic organizer to create a well-written, complete, factual paragraph. This lesson is designed for upper primary grades but can be used for middle school also. It covers Virginia History and US History II SOLs and English writing and research SOLs. Feel free to modify this lesson and its accompanying documents as needed for your classes.
A project in which students are asked to apply knowledge of media literacy skills to curate articles and analyze media bias
In this unit students study the California migrant farm workers' fight for justice. Lead by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, this time period is often referred to as the start of the Latino civil rights movement. Over the course of the unit students will explore what life was like for migrant farm workers in the 1960s and the barriers that prevented them from obtaining better wages and equitable working conditions. Students will then learn about how the farm workers were able to band together under the leadership of Larry Itliong, Cesar Chavez, and Dolores Huerta to launch a multi-year movement focused on using nonviolent tactics as a way of making meaningful, long-lasting change. In particular, students will analyze how different types of nonviolent protests (boycotts, pickets, marches, strikes, and fasting) helped educate the public and influence change. Understanding the history of migrant farm workers and their struggle for justice is important for helping students understand the world around them. It is important to note that this unit is based in history. Many of the ideas and concepts in this unit are connected to current events; however, the focus of the unit is on this period in history.
In reading, this unit helps students continue to build their informational reading skills. Over the course of the unit students will be pushed to think about the connection between two or more historical events and people. Unlike previous units, this unit contains a variety of primary sources and videos that require students to use different reading and speaking and listening strategies in order to synthesize and summarize key ideas.
A multi-day lesson designed to integrate Geography and Literacy in an integrated humanities, history, or English setting.
This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch LaTissha Boyce teach about how to use a mind map to brainstorm ideas before writing an essay or paragraph in a creative and unique way.
Multiple Meaning WordsDirections: Students will work in teacher-assigned pairs to determine the meaning and part of speech of words with multiple meanings. Students will then write grammatically-correct and correctly constructed sentences for each word. Each sentence must include context clues that allow the reader to determine the meaning of the word as it is being used in the sentence.
Bring Music and Language Arts together in a Google Slide Show lesson. Using both prior knowledge and observation, students will compare and contrast musical instruments as they create a Diamante style poem.