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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing a Predictable Text to Teach High-Frequency Words
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students develop fluency as they participate in a choral reading of predictable text. After...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using <i>Diary of a Worm</i>
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Science, Life Sciences, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionStudents often believe that fiction writers make everything up, seldom realizing how research worms its way into entertaining wr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Getting-Acquainted Activity Using <em>My Teacher’s Secret Life</em>
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesStudents build classroom community as they get to know each other and their teacher better by sharing what they like to do outsi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSodbusters!
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students examine photographs of sod houses, build a model sod house, and picture themselves liv...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkYoung Writers Workshop
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesThe printable story starters on this page from Chateau Meddybemps encourage creativity in children in preschool and primary grad...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShapes Art
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 5Subjects: Literature, Mathematics, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students participate in activities in which they focus on connectio...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkToy Shop Numbers
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: Mathematics, Number Sense, English-Language Arts, Vocabulary & SpellingIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students participate in activities in which they focus on the role ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEyewitness to History
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, United States History, English-Language Arts and 2 additional..Families connect us to our own history and to the history of the world around us. In this lesson from EDSITEment, students explo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWeekend News! A Weekly Writing Activity
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesOn Monday mornings, you’re likely to be asked, “What did you do this weekend?” In this lesson, students respond to this question...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGet Writing with "Weekend News!"
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students write about their weekends, using skills they have learned in writing workshops. F...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDraw a Story: Stepping from Pictures to Writing
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students draw a series of pictures that tell a simple story that includes character action, probl...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWatching a Garden Grow
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Science, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this activity from ReadWriteThink, children plan, plant, and observe a garden. They keep a garden journal with questions and ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Children’s Natural Curiosity to Lead to Descriptive Writing
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesInspired by the book It Begins with an A, kindergarten students are invited to turn their curiosity and guesswork into a class b...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCollaborative Stories 1: Prewriting and Drafting
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students engage in prewriting activities that include writing the beginning of a story and b...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPattern Writing: Combining Words Into Structured Ideas
Grades: 1 to 3Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Professional Development, Grammar, English-Language ArtsThe YouthLearn Initiative at the EDC (Education Development Center) presents this selection of ideas and activities for teaching...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentPoetry Using the 5Ws
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesThis student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, offers a model for writing a non-rhyming poem using the 5Ws (who, what,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCreating a Narrative
Grades: 2 to 12Subjects: Electives, History-Social Science, Geography, English-Language Arts and 3 additional..In this lesson, from AskAsia, students examine and analyze a Chinese landscape painting as a narrative journey. Then students wr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTech-it and Take-it: Let's Make Books
Grades: TK/K to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis, Writing StrategiesThis page, from Vicki Blackwell s Internet Guide for Educators, features links to Powerpoint files of procedures for making a ra...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0