All resources in NWMS Language Arts

Identifying Text Structure

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This is a lesson plan, student worksheet, and teacher answer key to introduce identifying text structures and using appropriate graphic organizers (GO) for each text structure. There is an introduction with a video lecture from which students can get basic information and examples on 6 text structures. There is a link to more guided and independent work in this area. The author used this lesson in a pre-GED Adult Basic Education class with non-native English speakers who read at a 5.0 - 8.0 GLE.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Heather Turngren

Parts of speech - Mad Libs

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The students will examine their knowledge of the parts of speech with this fun game of mad libs. The teacher provides them with a story of his or her own authorship, which contains a series of blanks where the student must write a word from the corresponding part of speech in order to make the story their own.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Game

Author: Christian Hernandez

Gravity-Fed Water System for Developing Communities

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Students learn about water poverty and how water engineers can develop appropriate solutions to a problem that is plaguing nearly a sixth of the world's population. Students follow the engineering design process to design a gravity-fed water system. They choose between different system parameters such as pipe sizes, elevation differentials between entry and exit pipes, pipe lengths and tube locations to find a design that provides the maximum flow and minimum water turbidity (cloudiness) at the point of use. In this activity, students play the role of water engineers by designing and building model gravity-fed water systems, learning the key elements necessary for viable projects that help improve the lives people in developing communities.

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Authors: Janet Yowell, Jeff Walters, Malinda Schaefer Zarske