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Identifying Theme

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This Learning Plan was created by Mae Clausen. Educators worked with coaches to create Learning Plans.Brief Overview: Students will analyze and evaluate theme and the purpose it serve to readers as they deepen their understanding/comprehension. Students will read short passages and watch Pixar shorts to determine theme.Grade Level: 3rd gradeLexile Level: 420-820     NDE Standards: LA 3.1.6.d  Summarize a literary text and/or media using key details to identify the theme.  Learning Objective: Students will be able to identify theme and explain its importance to a reader.Duration:  90-120 minutes to complete.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Reading

Author: Mae Clausen

Character Traits and Similes

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 The attached Lesson Plan is designed for Third Grade English Language Arts students. Students will determine character traits and provide supporting evidence from the text. They will also identify and explain why authors use literary devices, specifically similes, in their writing. This Lesson Plan addresses the following NDE Standard: NE LA 3.1.6.b and NE LA 3.1.6.c.It is expected that this Lesson Plan will take students 2- 30-40 minute sessions to complete.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Michelle Helt

The Genre and Author's Purpose Connection

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The attached Lesson Plan is designed for Third Grade English Language Arts students. Students will determine if a text is literary or informational text and use that knowledge to determine author's purpose and provide evidence. This Lesson Plan addresses the following NDE Standard: NE LA 3.1.6.g and NE LA 3.1.6.a.It is expected that this Lesson Plan will take students 3- 30-40 minute sessions to complete.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Michelle Helt

Key Word Summary

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The attached Lesson Plan is designed for Third Grade English Language Arts students. Students will determine story elements and use the elements to write a summary. This Lesson Plan addresses the following NDE Standard: NE LA 3.1.6.b and NE LA 3.1.6.dIt is expected that this Lesson Plan will take students 90 minutes to complete.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Michelle Helt

3rd Grade Animal Research

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The attached lesson plan is designed for 3rd grade English Language Arts students. Students will analyze informational text to determine the main ideas for a report, apply the concepts of the writing process, and communicate their research through an oral presentation to their classroom peers. This lesson plan addresses the following NDE Standards: NE LA 3.1.6.e, NE LA 3.2.1.a,c,d,e,j, NE LA 3.3.1.aIt is expected that this lesson plan will take five one-hour sessions to complete.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Isaac Simpson

Identifying Cause and Effect Relationships

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This Lesson Plan was created by Molly Simpson. The attached Lesson Plan is designed for Grade 3 English Language Arts students. Students will be able to identify cause and effect relationships in text using the definitions of cause and effect and the signal words learned. This module can be used for remote learning by the student as well as an in-classroom lesson plan. The Lesson Plan addresses the following NDE Standards: NE.LA 3.1.3.C and NE.LA 3.1.5.D. It is expected that this Lesson Plan will take students about 50 minutes to complete.

Material Type: Lesson Plan, Module

Author: Molly Simpson

Transformers Creative Writing with Vocabulary

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This Lesson Plan was created by Molly Simpson. The attached Lesson Plan is designed for Grade 3 English Language Arts students. Students will understand and use 3rd grade level vocabulary, use creative thinking skills to write a short story, proofread and edit their own work, and publish a final copy of their written work. The Lesson Plan addresses the following NDE Standards: NE.LA 3.2.1.D, NE.LA 3.2.1.H, NE.LA 3.2.1.J, and NE.LA 3.2.2.D. It is expected that this Lesson Plan will take students about 120 minutes to complete. 

Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan

Author: Molly Simpson

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Sentence- Phrase-Word- Understanding Theme & Big Ideas

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This is an activity that includes student's own ideas and beliefs about the central ideas and important parts of the text. Students will also do a bit of writing to support their opinions. This activity gets at the heart of a text. I see this as introductory to deeper dives into theme. This lesson could be structured to be online or face to face. This is written as a class activity but an online discussion could easily be created after students had followed the protocol a few times and seen the discussion that results. This could easily work in many classrooms through high school.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Beth Einspahr

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Types of Sentences

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 The lesson is designed for Grade 5 English Language Arts students to review the four types of sentences: exclamatory, declarative, interrogative, imperative. This lesson addresses the following NDE Standard: NE LA 5.1.4.a, NE LA 5.1.4.b.It is expected that this lesson will take students 60 minutes to complete.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Carrie Veal

When you WRITE, use the RIGHT homophone

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 The attached lesson is designed for Grade 5 English Language Arts students. Students will be able to define a homophone, give examples, and use homophones correctly according to their definition.  Students will practice differntiating between two homophones and using the correct one in a sentence. This lesson addresses the following NDE Standard: NE LA 5.1.5.b, NE LA 5.1.5.c, NE LA 5.1.5.d, and NE LA 5.1.5.e.It is expected that this lesson will take students 90 minutes to complete.

Material Type: Assessment, Diagram/Illustration, Game, Homework/Assignment, Unit of Study

Author: Carrie Veal

Prepositions in Writing and Real Life!

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Students will learn what a preposition is and it's relationship to other words in the sentence.  They will identify the preposition, prepositional phrase, and direct object in a given paragraph.  They will look at pictures and compose sentences to describe the pictures using prepositional phrases.  Finally, they will compose their own sentences with prepositional phrases and act them out on video.  They will be getting feedback from classmates before turning in final work.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Beth Einspahr

Book Club

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Students will participate in Book Club by choosing groups of 3-5 students and a book at their reading level according to their interest, or the subject currently being studied.  They will decide together how to split the book into three or more sections to finish in four weeks or less.  They will prepare and write out a discussion role for each meeting (Word Wizard, Connector, Summarizer, Questioner, or Passage Person).  This plan is written for either in class, blended, or remote learning.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Beth Einspahr

5th Grade Reading and Writing - Tall Tale

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This lesson uses tall tale read alouds to reinforce the common elements, or text structure, of tall tales. As the text is read aloud, students examine the elements of the book that are characteristic of tall tales. Then using what they've learned, they write and perform tall tales of their own.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment, Lesson, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Beth Einspahr

Identifying Informational Text Structures

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 The attached lesson is designed for Grade 5 English Language Arts students. Students will analyze and evaluate the elements of informational text, identify and apply knowledge of organizational patterns to comprehend informational texts. This lesson addresses the following NDE Standard: NE LA 5.1.6.jIt is expected that this lesson will take students 120 minutes to complete.

Material Type: Assessment, Diagram/Illustration, Homework/Assignment, Interactive, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy, Unit of Study

Author: Carrie Veal

Prepositions

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 The attached student lesson is designed for Grade 4 English Language Arts students. Students will apply knowledge of word structure elements, known words, and word patterns to identify and utilize prepositions.This student lesson addresses the following NDE Standard: NE LA 5.1.5.a.It is expected that this student lesson will take students 90 minutes to complete.

Material Type: Game, Homework/Assignment, Interactive, Lesson, Reading

Author: Carrie Veal

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Perspectives in Hidden Figures: Circle of Viewpoints

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In this lesson students will examine the characters in a chapter who happen to have differing view points. This is an important factor for success with this lesson. Students will analyze characters and actively express theiir perspectives on different topics and questions.  Students will use their background knowledge,previous learning from the book, and make inferences about the characters. During the "discussion" students use their acting skills to be a partticular character and discuss from that point of view. They will justify the stance they take as they speak in character.  This creates a great understanding of perspective and view points before moving into deeper dives about author's perspectives.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: Julia Hatcher

Remote Learning Plan: Figurative Language Poem 6th Grade

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 This Remote Learning Plan was created by Hannah Barnhart in collaboration with Caryn Ziettlow and Eileen Barks as part of the 2020 ESU-NDE Remote Learning Plan Project. Educators worked with coaches to create Remote Learning Plans as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The attached Remote Learning Plan is designed for 6th Grade Language Arts students. Students will review figurative language and create an apology poem. This Remote Learning Plan addresses the following NDE Standard: 3, 4, 5, 6.1.6c Identify and explain why authors use literary devices.   LA 6.2.2.e Compare various mentor texts and/or exemplars to create a similar piece.It is expected that this Remote Learning Plan will take students 80 minutes to complete.Here is the direct link to the Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wvobkejhzjJRZd7XV218lXKvLlX7DLDW2DiH4B9MVEs/edit?usp=sharing

Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Hannah Barnhart

Remote Learning Plan: Context Clues 6th Grade

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This Remote Learning Plan was created by Hannah Barnhart in collaboration with Caryn Ziettlow and Eileen Barks as part of the 2020 ESU-NDE Remote Learning Plan Project. Educators worked with coaches to create Remote Learning Plans as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.The attached Remote Learning Plan is designed for 6th Grade Language Arts students. Students will use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word using the IDEAS Strategy. This Remote Learning Plan addresses the following NDE Standard: LA 6.1.5.b Select and apply knowledge of context clues (e.g., word, phrase, sentence, and paragraph clues) and text features to determine meaning of unknown words.It is expected that this Remote Learning Plan will take students 40 to complete.Here is the direct link to the Google Doc: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13d23NUCf8s9Thd6nh7RlfkAAHKHN3798m8KviNbaSZM/edit?usp=sharing 

Material Type: Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Hannah Barnhart

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