Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
Literacy Practices
How do you make sense of what you read? In this lesson focused on literacy practices, students engage in a variety of reading strategies. Students consider their reading processes before discovering annotation techniques, and then read and annotate a short story and craft a multimodal response. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: February 11th, 2025
In this lesson, students will critically examine how literary elements contribute to the theme of a text. Students will explore universal theme sets by examining pictures and engaging in the Four Corners strategy. Students will then identify a universal theme within a text by using the Why-Lighting... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: January 28th, 2025
Picture the Theme
What does the raven really mean? In this lesson, students analyze Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Raven" to uncover the meaning behind its iconic symbol. Then, they create free verse poems, using symbolism to express themselves. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: January 14th, 2025
Symbolism in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"
This lesson guides students to investigate literary elements and character traits as they examine and create superheroes. Students begin the lesson by sharing prior knowledge of and experiences with superheroes and superhero stories. Students then watch videos about superheroes and literary elements... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: January 17th, 2025
Literary Elements and Narrative Writing
In this lesson, students listen to a song while completing a painting activity. They collaborate to paint a list of descriptive words on their canvases based on the song. Considering the song lyrics as poetry, students analyze the song, focusing on descriptive language and sensory details. Students... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: January 16th, 2025
Communication: Using Descriptive Language
In this lesson, students explore proportions by comparing their own measurements to those of dolls and action figures. Students determine if they are proportional to small toys and figurines then calculate the dimensions of an accurate toy version of themselves. Throughout the lesson, students analyze... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: December 4th, 2024
Proportional Reasoning
Whether they realize it or not, many students love poetry and use it every day. Introducing poetry in a relevant way can positively engage students in the composition of poetry. In this lesson, students will explore song lyrics as they engage in the analysis and creation of poetry. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 13th, 2024
Poetry and Poetic Devices
This lesson is designed to shift students' attitude towards writing by guiding them to use descriptive and sensory language. Students begin exploring descriptive language by describing objects and brainstorming adjectives. Students then discuss examples and non-examples of descriptive writing and improve... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 27th, 2024
Descriptive Writing
In this lesson, students explore strategies that they can use to identify the main idea and key details in an informational text. Students identify main ideas, supporting details, and nonessential details in visual advertisements, paragraphs, and full texts. At the end of lesson, students reflect on... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: October 29th, 2024
Identifying the Main Idea
In this lesson, students learn to effectively identify and analyze themes in both fiction and nonfiction texts. Students evaluate universal theme sets then find examples of these themes in articles and passages from literature. Finally, students demonstrate their understanding of theme statements by... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: October 24th, 2024
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