This Learning Plan was created by Mae Clausen. Educators worked with coaches to create Learning Plans.Brief Overview: Students will analyze and evaluate the comphrension strategy of visualization to clarify text and deepen understanding of the text. Students will use background knowledge to build on new knowledge and connect to the texts. Grade Level: 3rd gradeLexile Level: 420-820     Scarecrow Read Aloud: AD 600LNDE Standards: LA 3.1.6.l  Build background knowledge and activate prior knowledge to identify text-to- self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections before, during, and after reading.LA 3.1.6.n Make and confirm/modify predictions and inferences before, during, and after reading literary, informational, digital text, and/or media.Learning Objective: Students will be able to define visualization and notice it while reading and/or listening to books or short passages. Duration:  90-120 minutes to complete. 

My central focus for this lesson will be to teach and review with students the meaning of 5 vocabulary words in a book we read together.

This resource was created by Jill Anderson, in collaboration with Dawn DeTurk, Hannah Blomstedt, and Julie Albrecht, as part of ESU2's Integrating the Arts project. This project is a four year initiative focused on integrating arts into the core curriculum through teacher education, practice, and coaching.

This resource was created by Sally Kneifl, in collaboration with Dawn DeTurk, Hannah Blomstedt, and Julie Albrecht, as part of ESU2's Integrating the Arts project. This project is a four year initiative focused on integrating arts into the core curriculum through teacher education, practice, and coaching.

Students will learn and be able to practice how to write a good sentence using punctution!

What makes a good sentence? This lesson plan was created by Dawn Spurck as part of the 2020 NDE OER Project. The attached lesson plan is designed for Grade K English Language Arts students. Students will demonstrate their understanding that sentences are made up of words.  Students will also make a simple sentence that is grammatically correct. This lesson plan addresses the following NDE Standard: NE LA O1.1.b, NE LA 0.1.1.e, NE LA 0.1.1.f, NE LA 0.1.1 g, and NE LA 0.2.1.d.It is expected that this lesson will take students 60-90 minutes to complete.  This lesson should be broken into smaller more manageable chunks for kindergarten students.  It is suggested that teachers do modeled lesson for one sitting, Interactive another time in another sitting.  Teachers use your professional judgement on what works best for your students

 The attached Remote Lesson Plan is designed for Grade 7 English Language Arts students. Students will get an introduction to genre and the different characteristics of genre. They will gain information through a slide show and a video. Digital flashcards are provided to help with learning the terms and their definitions. A Check for Understanding is provided to assess how each student is understanding the characteristics of a variety of literary and informational. This Remote Lesson Plan addresses the following NDE Standard: NE LA 7.1.6.gIt is expected that this Remote Learning Plan will take students 90 minutes to complete.

 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.

This writing piece is an introductory writing assignment for 7-12 students to explore their strengths while demonstrating their writing abilities, as well as how to do basic MLA format and a citation.Although it is natural for humans to focus on their defects and become overly critical, this writing piece requires students to focus on their assets and celebrate them while supporting these traits with specific examples to bring them to life. This writing lesson was created by Janelle Coady as part of the 2020 OER English Language Arts Workshop by NDE. The attached plan is designed for Grade 9 English Language Arts students but could also be used for any students 7-12th.It is expected that this plan will take students 3-5 days to complete."This is Who I Am" by Wallpaper Flare is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Overview: In this lesson, students read background information on the life of William Carlos Williams. They closely examine and analyze a few of Williams' poems in order to understand his craft and the literary movement in which he formed his craft. Students explore different components of his poetry and then practice their own critical and poetry writing skills in an emulation exercise. 

This lesson asks students to dig into a select scene to examine the complex and stereotype-defying character of Lady Macbeth.

This lesson serves as a pre-reading activity for the play, Macbeth by William Shakespeare with a focus on gender roles and the portrayal of women in this famous play.

Engage students in the analysis of the persuasive written language of advertisements. Students will have to recognize some language techniques used in advertising, match the techniques to some printed ads and create slogans, using such techniques.Subject: English Language, Reading Foundational Skills, Writing Foundational SkillsLevel: Middle SchoolMaterial Type: Classroom ActivityRemixed by Tami Hughson, Sioux County Schools.

This lesson is meant to be used as reinforcement after teaching parts of speech:  nouns, verbs and adjectives.  Students will review these parts of speech using movies in Brainpop or BrainpopJr, depending on the needs of students. Brainpop movies are titled Nouns, Verbs and Objects, and Adjecttives.  BrainpopJr movies are titles Nouns, Verbs, and Adverbs/Adjectives.  Depending on your situation, you can view the movies together, or students can view individually.  Have students complete the Easy Quiz for each movie, either alone or with a partner, as a check for understanding. The amount of time spent on review will be determined by student need. Also included are short YouTube videos that can be used to review these parts of speech

The attached lesson plan is designed for 3rd grade writing students. Students will write a variety of complete sentences and sentence types using correct grammar conventions. This lesson plan addresses the following NDE Standards: 3.2.1.d, e, f

This Remote Learning Plan was created by Beth Einspahr in collaboration with 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 Grade 5 Writing students. Students will write a variety of complete sentences and sentence types using correct grammar conventions. This Remote Learning Plan addresses the following NDE Standards: 5.2.1.d, e, f, h.

The attached Lesson Plan is designed for 3rd grade writing students. Students will go through the writing process to write a descriptive personal narrative piece and they will be able to use descriptive words to describe an event or place that they have experienced. This lesson plan addresses the following NDE Standards: NE LA 3.2.1.a, d, h, j, NE LA 3.2.2.aIt is expected this lesson plan will take approximately 90 minutes to complete.The Lexile Measure for Magic Tree House: Dinosaurs Before Dark is 510L

This resource was created by Jenna McAfee, in collaboration with Dawn DeTurk, Hannah Blomstedt, and Julie Albrecht, as part of ESU2's Integrating the Arts project. This project is a four year initiative focused on integrating arts into the core curriculum through teacher education, practice, and coaching.

This lesson play includes reading and analyzing models of "This I Believe" personal narratives, pre-writing, drafting, peer editing, and proofreading ideas.