This collaborative document describes the core features and functions of Open Space Groups from a user perspective. There is also space to ask questions and provide comments and feedback.
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Students write and record their own essays for a class blog by first completing a series of activities designed to get them thinking and writing about their experiences.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
Formerly known as Shape Poems, this online tool allows elementary students to write poems in various shapes.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
Students create acrostic poems using their names and the names of things that are important to them.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
This article provides ideas and resources for writing science-themed poetry in the elementary classroom. NCTE/IRA Standards alignments are included for each lesson.
Material Type: Reading
Students create poetry collections with the theme of getting to know each other. They study and then write a variety of forms of poetry to include in their collections.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
What do your students think about each other? Find out as you teach them the concepts of acrostic poems and challenge them to write an uplifting acrostic about a classmate.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Students shape up their reading, writing, and listening skills in this lesson by creating original diamante, acrostic, and shape poems about science.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Students practice using coordinate adjectives by combining two sentences. This is activity 1 of 2 in the Coordinate Adjectives series.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
Students use their communication and writing skills as they interview a partner, write an article about them, and create a multimodal presentation to introduce their partner to the class.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
Students read an example of allegory, review literary concepts, complete literary elements maps and plot diagrams, create a pictorial allegory, and write diamante poems related to the theme of change.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Students learn how to get their voice out on the web when they research issues important to them and compose a persuasive podcast to post online.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
Students explore the idea of ńcrossing boundariesî through bilingual, spoken-word poetry, culminating in a poetry slam at school or in the community.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Unit of Study
This lesson plan is the ninth in the "Incredible Bridges: Poets Creating Community" series. It provides a video recording of the poet, Joy Harjo, reading the poem "Remember." The companion lesson contains a sequence of activities for use with secondary students before, during, and after reading to help them enter and experience the poem.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Visit Resources for English Language Arts on the Ohio Department of Education webpage to access supporting materials for teaching Ohio students. Scroll to find recordings of the ELA Virtual meetups.
Material Type: Diagram/Illustration
ODE ELA Meetup March 2022 Teachers are writers too! In this ODE Meetup, Beth Rimer from the Ohio Writing Project shared with attendees strategies for writing your teaching story. Learn more about how to use mentor text, gather ideas, and revise to improve your own writing and guide your students on their writing journey.
Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy
Ensuring Access to the General Curriculum for All Learners provides educators and other specialists with the strategies, research, and support resources to effectively design instruction and assessment in a way that provides universal access across courses, lessons, and learning activities. Organized in 10 chapters, Ensuring Access to the General Curriculum for All Learners was created for educators, by educators and is grounded in research and evidence-based practices. The free, video-based learning series explores practical, easy-to-use strategies and resources that are designed to ensure ALL learners have access to the general curriculum. Many of the videos provide step-by-step guidance on how to prepare learning environments and materials with ALL learners in mind.
Material Type: Assessment, Lesson Plan, Module, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Unit of Study
