Grade-Level ODE Model lesson Plans
READING/WRITING


Grade Eight

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red book Using Sensory Details for Descriptive Writing — Grade Eight blue book
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Grade: Grade 8  
Type: ODE Model Lesson Plans
Description: Students will create narrative paragraphs in response to a prompt. They will use the senses of smell, taste, touch, sight and hearing to completely respond to the prompt. Students' responses should show a personal style and a clear audience.  
Ohio Standards Connection:
Primary Standards, Benchmarks, and Indicators:
Standard:  Writing Process
  Benchmark: C.  Use revision strategies to improve the style, variety of sentence structure, clarity of the controlling idea, logic, effectiveness of word choice and transitions between paragraphs, passages or ideas.
  Indicator: 9.  Use precise language, action verbs, sensory details, colorful modifiers and style as appropriate to audience and purpose.  
Standard:  Writing Applications
  Benchmark: A.  Compose narratives that establish a specific setting, plot and a consistent point of view, and develop characters by using sensory details and concrete language.
  Indicator: 1.  Write narratives that:
sustain reader interest by pacing action and developing an engaging plot (e.g., tension and suspense);
use literary devices to enhance style and tone; and
create complex characters in a definite, believable setting. 

red book Examining How Inventions or Events Change the English Language — Grade Eightblue book
Grade:   Grade 8
Type: ODE Model Lesson Plans
Description: Students will increase their vocabulary by examining, discussing and analyzing the ways that cultural, political, social, technological and scientific events impact and change the English language.  
Ohio Standards Connection:
Primary Standards, Benchmarks, and Indicators:
Standard:  Acquisition of Vocabulary
  Benchmark: D.  Explain how different events have influenced and changed the English language.
  Indicator: 5.  Examine and discuss the ways that different events (e.g., cultural, political, social, technological, and scientific events) impact and change the English language.
red book Using the SQ3R Method of Reading to Increase Comprehension — Grade Eightblue book
Grade: Grade 8  
Type: ODE Model Lesson Plans
Description: Students will learn the SQ3R reading method. As students gain familiarity and skill with the method, they will apply it to an assigned common reading assignment of a literary text.  
Ohio Standards Connection:
Primary Standards, Benchmarks, and Indicators:
Standard:  Reading Process: Concepts of Print, Comprehension Strategies and Self-Monitoring Strategies
  Benchmark: A.  Apply reading comprehension strategies to understand grade-appropriate texts.
  Indicator: 1.  Apply reading comprehension strategies, including making predictions, comparing and contrasting, recalling and summarizing and making inferences and drawing conclusions.
red book   Polishing Writing Conventions — Grade Nineblue book
Grade: Grade 9  
Type: ODE Model Lesson Plans
Description: Students will correctly use quotation marks, colons and semicolons in a variety of writing situations; they also will identify and use parallel structure correctly.  
Ohio Standards Connection:
Primary Standards, Benchmarks, and Indicators:
Standard:  Writing Conventions
  Benchmark: B.  Use correct punctuation and capitalization.
  Indicator: 2.  Use correct punctuation and capitalization.
  Benchmark: C.  Demonstrate understanding of the grammatical conventions of the English language.
  Indicator: 3.  Use clauses (e.g., main, subordinate) and phrases (e.g., gerund, infinitive, participial).  
  Indicator: 4.  Use parallel structure to present items in a series and items juxtaposed for emphasis.  

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