Marco Polo Language Arts Lesson Plans

These Lesson Plans are cross curricular in nature but are based on the following NJCCC Standards for Language Arts

Language Arts Standards 

 Grades K - 4 

3.1 - ALL STUDENTS WILL UNDERSTAND AND APPLY THE KNOWLEDGE OF SOUNDS, LETTERS, AND WORDS IN WRITTEN ENGLISH TO BECOME INDEPENDENT AND FLUENT READERS, AND WILL READ A VARIETY OF MATERIALS AND TEXTS WITH FLUENCY AND COMPREHENSION.

3.1 Your Family Anthology
3.1 Oceans: A Fact Haiku
3.1 Aesop and Anase: Animal Fables and Trickster Tales
3.1 More or Less in the Myth
3.1 Myth Review and Evaluation
3.1 Predicting
3.1 Read and Respond
3.1 Sequencing Events in a Myth
3.1 Story Maps
3.1 Sorting and Classifying Mythological Characters
3.1 Language and Runaway Slave Ads

3.2 - ALL STUDENTS WILL WRITE IN CLEAR, CONCISE, ORGANIZED LANGUAGE THAT VARIES IN CONTENT AND FORM FOR DIFFERENT AUDIENCES AND PURPOSES.

3.2 Mythology: Flights of Fantacy
3.2 A Trip to Wonderland
3.2 Ancient Flood Stories
3.2 The Myth Club
3.2 Oral Traditions in Africa
3.2 The Little Red Hen

3.3   ALL STUDENTS WILL SPEAK IN CLEAR, CONCISE, ORGANIZED LANGUAGE THAT VARIES IN CONTENT AND FORM FOR DIFFERENT AUDIENCES AND PURPOSES

3.3  Greeting Friends From Other Places
3.3  Keeping a Journal about Myths
3.3 

Failure: The Good and the Bad
3.3  Biography
3.3  Jamestown Fort: Finding History
3.3  The Jamestown Newsletter
3.3  Teachnet.com - Lesson Plans: Language Arts - Reading: Not Your Same Old Book Report
3.3  Teachnet.com - Lesson Plans: Language Arts - Reading: Model Reading and Writing for your Students
3.3  Teachnet.com - Lesson Plans: Language Arts - Writing: Interactive Word Wall
3.3  Teachnet.com - Lesson Plans: Language Arts - Writing: Project - Letters to Santa

3.4 - ALL STUDENTS WILL LISTEN ACTIVELY TO INFORMATION FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES IN A VARIETY OF SITUATIONS.  

3.4 All Together Now: Collaborations in Poetry Writing and Recitation
3.4 Choral Speaking: The Frog on the Log
3.4 Oral Traditions in Africa
3.4 Vocabulary Charade Game
3.4 All Together Now: Collaborations in Poetry Writing and Recitation

3.5 - ALL STUDENTS WILL ACCESS, VIEW, EVALUATE, AND RESPOND TO PRINT, NONPRINT, AND ELECTRONIC TEXTS AND RESOURCES.

3.5 Dr. King's Dream
3.5 The Emperor's New Clothes: Freeze Frame
3.5 Finding Clues in a Picture
3.5 Vocabulary Charade Game
3.5 Every Picture Tells a Story K-4

Back to Lesson Plans by Subject