This sample instructional plan incorporates WIDA Key Language Uses to support English language development in conjunction with ELA 5 content instruction addressing SOL5.6 and 5.7.*Note: Some images may not appear in "View Resource."  To see all images in this instructional plan, click "download" at the bottom of the overview.

This article discusses the four forms of identifying similarities and differences: comparing, classifying, creating metaphors, and creating analogies and how these strategies can be used in an elementary classroom.

This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Jadah Jones teach about comparison and contrast.

This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Joy Phillips teach about how to compare and contrast text.

This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Beth Eanes teach about four different organizational patterns in text structures.

This article provides links to standards-based science and literacy lessons about weather, climate, polar climates, and climate change.

Students' eyes are opened to the value of creative, expressive and succinct visual presentation of data, findings and concepts. Student pairs design, redesign and perform simple experiments to test the differences in thermal conductivity (heat flow) through different media (foil and thin steel). Then students create visual diagrams of their findings that can be understood by anyone with little background on the subject, applying their newly learned art vocabulary and concepts to clearly communicate their results. The principles of visual design include contrast, alignment, repetition and proximity; the elements of visual design include an awareness of the use of lines, color, texture, shape, size, value and space. If students already have data available from other experiments, have them jump right into the diagram creation and critique portions of the activity.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Kelly Diehl teach about the qualities of a friend and finding friendship traits inside a story.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Amanda Knighton teach about comparing and contrasting setting in a story.

This article provides geography lessons to teach elementary students about the polar regions. Literacy extensions are included for each lesson.

This article provides a list of children's literature relating to the geography and characteristics of the Arctic and Antarctica.

Students learn the value of writing and art in science and engineering. They acquire vocabulary that is appropriate for explaining visual art and learn about visual design principles (contrast, alignment, repetition and proximity) and elements (lines, color, texture, shape, size, value and space) that are helpful when making visual aids. A PowerPoint(TM) presentation heightens students' awareness of the connection between art and engineering in order to improve the presentation of results, findings, concepts, information and prototype designs. Students also learn about the science and engineering research funding process that relies on effective proposal presentations, as well as some thermal conductivity / heat flow basics including the real-world example of a heat sink which prepares them for the associated activity in which they focus on creating diagrams to communicate their own collected experimental data.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Mary Mathias teach about plot.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Mary Mathias teach about comparing characters in a story using character traits.

Students will compare and contrast four petitions in favor of woman suffrage to identify reasons why women wanted the right to vote.

This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Andrew Sytsma teach about methods for comparing and contrasting.