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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPourquoi Stories Written by a Fourth-grade Class
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, Literary AnalysisSaskatchewan Schools and Schools Divisions presents this online exhibit of student work from Miss Klemmer s 4th grade class at B...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCharacters in "Because of Winn-Dixie": Making Lists of Ten
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore characterization by creating lists of ten to summarize the features of a fiction...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkInferring How and Why Characters Change
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, a think-aloud procedure is used to model how to infer character traits and recognize a character'...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPourquoi Stories: Creating Tales to Tell Why
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, Literary AnalysisWhere did the stars come from? What makes lightning and thunder? Pourquoi tales are narratives developed by various cultures aro...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDancing Minds and Shouting Smiles: Teaching Personification Through Poetry
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, GrammarIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students learn about personification by reading and discussing poems by Emily Dickinson, William ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"Cinderella" Trilogy
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: History-Social Science, Literature, Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, TheatreIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students compare and contrast three culturally distinct variations of the "Cinderella" folktale: "Rhodo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGuided Comprehension: Knowing How Words Work Using Semantic Feature Analysis
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, one of a series from ReadWriteThink, introduces students to the comprehension strategy of knowing how words work. S...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBook Report Alternative: Writing Resumes for Characters in Historical Fiction
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students select a character from a work of historical fiction and then help the character c...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOnce Upon a Link: A PowerPoint Adventure With Fractured Fairy Tales
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, TechnologyStudents sometimes have trouble understanding the difference between the global issues of revision and the local ones of editing...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAuthor Lois Duncan
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on young adult mystery author Lois Duncan. A classroom activity is featured in which studen...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFree Graphic Organizers
Grades: 1 to 8Subjects: Graphic organizers, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesThe graphic organizers provided here are, for the most part, plain in appearance. Allow students to create their own look to the...Contributor: Deborah LawsonViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCreating Comic Strips
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis ARTSEDGE lesson looks at the way, as a society, we communicate information/ideas through various mediums (words, symbols, i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCharlotte Is Wise, Patient, and Caring: Adjectives and Character Traits
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Vocabulary & Spelling, Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students define the purpose of adjectives and find examples in shared reading. Then students "bec...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCaldecott Medal-Winner Virginia Lee Burton
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the books of Caldecott Medal-winner Virginia Lee Burton and her use of personification. ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBehind the Scenes with Cinderella
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: History-Social Science, Literature, Geography, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, begins by having students compare a version of the Cinderella folk tale from France with a ver...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOnce Upon a Time Rethought: Writing Fractured Fairy Tales
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students work together to craft a list of common fairy tale elements. They then explore and analy...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGuided Comprehension: Evaluating Using the Meeting of the Minds Technique
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, one of a series from ReadWriteThink, introduces students to the comprehension strategy of evaluating. Students lear...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLeading to Great Places in the Elementary Classroom
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students examine examples of leads in children's literature such as setting, action, character, r...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkComics in the Classroom as an Introduction to Narrative Structure
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students examine the plot and narrative structure of a story through the use of comic strip ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIs Superman Really All That Super? Critically Exploring Superheroes
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students generate a list of superheroes from various types of texts. They then explore individual...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0