English Instructional Plan Compare and Contrast Paired Texts 8-9
English Instruction Plan – 9-Compare and Contrast Texts
Compare and Contrast with Music is a cross-curricular lesson designed by an Elementary Music teacher to support Language Arts instruction. Created By: Joshua Wright Powhatan County Public Schools.
English Instructional Plan Comparing and Contrasting Details in Texts 6 Primary Strand: Reading 6.5 Integrated Strand/s: Communication and Multimodal Literacies 6.1
In this unit students dive into the world of Greek mythology. Over the course of the unit students will read the classic myths of Pandora, Arachne, and Echo and Narcissus. In reading the myths, students will gain a deeper understanding of the gods and mortals in ancient Greece and how the ancient Greeks used mythology as a way to make sense of and interpret the world around them. Students will also continue the thematic exploration from previous units about how a person's beliefs, ethics, or values influence that person's behavior.
Over the course of the unit, students will read multiple versions of the classic myths. The primary focus of this unit is on close reading and analyzing the differences among the versions and critically analyzing an author's choice of genre. In doing so, students will be challenged to think about how the structural elements of different genres, particularly prose, drama, and verse, allow a reader to better understand a story or text. Students will also explore how the point of view in which a story is written, either third-person point of view or first-person point of view, changes the way a story is told and the depth of information that a reader knows. Another focus of this unit is determining the central theme of the myths. Because the stories in this unit are shorter than the novels students have read so far, this unit offers students practice in finding the theme of a shorter text and explaining how the author uses evidence to develop the theme.
Students will build on their knowledge for comparing and contrasting story elements to analyze sets of items and compare and contrast the attributes that led to the development of the set. Students can use additional attributes to categorize sets into subsets.
Fourth grade students are learning about the five geographic regions of Virginia and their characteristics. These comprehension “mix-ups” are a great way to monitor students’ understanding of the content along with checking reading comprehension.
Inform students that as they read the paragraphs, there is ONE word in each paragraph that is a “mix-up” (it is incorrect).
Teachers can choose to do these multiple ways in their classroom:
Whole group - teacher reads aloud the paragraph and students find the “mix-up”
Small group - the teacher works with a small group of students, modeling fluent reading and finding the mix-up
Students work in partners
In this lesson, students will learn about computer hardware and computing systems. They will work to describe different types of computer hardware and their functions, and identify computing systems in a real world context.
Students will explore computing parts and use oral language and content area vocabulary to describe items, then write a descriptive sentence to describe a technology problem.
This CS Student Journal uses Essential Questions from the CS SOL Curriculum Framework for Grade 5.
Students will take on the role of an HR team recruiting employees to a career in Computer Science. As HR specialists, students will create recruiting tools, job descriptions, and interview questions pertinent to the position.
For this lesson it is important that students have seen and/or used a computer to be able to discuss the differences and similarities of computers from the past and present. While looking at computers and their systems students will be discussing the things that computers do to make their lives easier and the ways that they use computers everyday in their daily lives.
Students will be challenged with researching various problems that may occur with hardware and software for computer usage and then turn their research into posters for the class to use later if they have a problem occur past our lesson.
How can we use technology in Algebra? How can we change technology to fit our needs?
Conclusion Paragraphs and practice
This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Kelly Sowden teach about conflict and resolution.
This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Joy Phillips teach about identifying internal and external conflict.
Students compare and make connections between the novel A Christmas Carol and the Victorian Times through a jigsaw activity which guides them through a virtual tour of the Charles Dickens museum in London.
This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Kelly Sowden teach about connotation and denotation.
Use this lesson to review and practice consonant digraphs with your students.