This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Amanda Knighton teach about conflict and resolution in a fictional story.

This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Claire Verdillo teach about how to determine the main idea and supporting details of nonfiction text.

Students will investigate the characteristics of heroes through the book Go Show the World. Students will select one of the heroes identified in the book and research them further, creating a Twine passage that shares what the student learned about the Native figure.This lesson was created through a partnership between CodeVA and the Virginia Tribal Education Consortium (VTEC). 

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Meghan Dmytriw teach about summarizing nonfiction text.

This resource is a remix of the EDSITEment! resource found through this link. That lesson does a strong job of placing Chinua Achebe's watershed novel within a particular cultural context. This resource aims to provide teachers and students with choices for comparative literature projects. This resource does not include activities so much as a list of resources that might pair well with a novel that is often difficult for high school students to grasp. 

This activity can be used to review the nonfiction organizational patterns. I use this review activity as a wrap-up/final review with the organizational patterns. The activity could also be used as a test-prep lesson. The teacher will begin by reviewing the organizational patterns. The teacher will model finding articles written using the different organizational patterns by showing examples of each.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Caroline Doughty teaches about the comprehension skill, questioning.

While 4th grade students are learning about space, this is a great resource to enhance students’ understanding of the solar system.

In this unit, students will examine the global topic of refugees.  The students will use nonfiction articles that provide students a background knowledge of the topic.  The articles will be the resources used to support learning of nonfiction VDOE Grade 8 standards. Students will apply comprehension skills daily throughout the unit of study.   The acquired background knowledge will support the second half of the unit as students will take part in a novel study using Refugee.   The students will show mastery by completing a persuasive writing performance based assessment. 

In this unit, students read fiction, nonfiction, and poetry selections about acts of courage, big and small, ordinary and extraordinary.  Throughout the unit students will assume the role of a blogger and write expository essay profiles about the people and characters they read about and their acts of courage.  This work will be curated in a Google Site that will serve as the Performance Based Assessment. 

English Instructional Plan – Using non-fiction texts to make inferences and draw conclusions 8-9 

This video is part of the Continue to Know with WHRO TV series. Watch Joy Phillips teach about different types of genres in literature.

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