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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCharacters in "Because of Winn-Dixie": Making Lists of Ten
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, 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: English-Language Arts, Literature, 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 / HyperLink"Cinderella" Trilogy
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: English-Language Arts, Theatre, History-Social Science, Visual Arts, LiteratureIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students compare and contrast three culturally distinct variations of the "Cinderella" folktale: "Rhodo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDancing Minds and Shouting Smiles: Teaching Personification Through Poetry
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Grammar, Literature, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students learn about personification by reading and discussing poems by Emily Dickinson, William ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBook Report Alternative: Writing Resumes for Characters in Historical Fiction
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, 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: Technology, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionStudents 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 / HyperLinkFree Graphic Organizers
Grades: 1 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Graphic organizersThe 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: English-Language Arts, Visual 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: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Vocabulary & Spelling, Literature, Reading ComprehensionIn 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: English-Language Arts, Literature, 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: Geography, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Literature, 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: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Literature, Reading ComprehensionIn 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 / HyperLinkLeading to Great Places in the Elementary Classroom
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Literature, Reading ComprehensionIn 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 / 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 / HyperLinkComics in the Classroom as an Introduction to Narrative Structure
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn 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: English-Language Arts, Literature, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students generate a list of superheroes from various types of texts. They then explore individual...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGraphing Plot and Character in a Novel
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Literature, United States History, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students graphically illustrate events in the plot of the story, "The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAlter Egos and More With Avi's "Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?"
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Theatre, Visual Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students read Avi's novel "Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?," which features radio shows. They le...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFigurative Language Awards Ceremony
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students use their background knowledge of figurative language. They listen to texts read a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJacob Grimm
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the life and works of Jacob Grimm and his brother Wilhelm--collectively known as the Bro...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0