Displaying 1-20 of 50 resources
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkInstant Poetry Forms
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis page, from the Educational Technology Training Center (ETTC), offers a collection of forms for creating dozens different ty...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"Leap, plashless": Emily Dickinson and Poetic Imagination
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Science, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Life Sciences and 2 additional..In this lesson, from EDSITEment, students read and explore one of Emily Dickinson's nature poems, "A Bird came down the Walk--" ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBe a Reading Detective: Finding Similarities and Differences in Ideas
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, focuses on the strategy of compare and contrast in nonfiction writing. Students use graphic or...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi": Mixing Fact and Fiction
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, students identify key events in Rudyard Kipling's life and describe th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat's In a Mystery? Exploring and Identifying Mystery Elements
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink lesson teaches students about plot structure, character, and setting. Students identify the characteristics ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDancing Minds and Shouting Smiles: Teaching Personification Through Poetry
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Grammar, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students learn about personification by reading and discussing poems by Emily Dickinson, William ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"Cap o'Rushes" Lesson Plan
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Literary Analysis, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, English-Language Arts, TheatreIn this lesson, from the University of Calgary, students will read and/or listen to the English folk tale Cap o Rushes, and p...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWho I Am Poems
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from the Multicultural Pavilion, students write a poem called Who I Am. The only rule for the piece is that ea...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkComposing Cinquain Poems with Basic Parts of Speech
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students learn about cinquain and write simple cinquain of their own. Cinquain (pronounced "...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLinks to Other Forms of Poetry and Elements of Poetry
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis printable teacher resource accompanies the ReadWriteThink lesson titled "Color Poems-Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewrit...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLet's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for English-Language Learners
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Vocabulary & Spelling, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson from ReadWriteThink can be adapted for Spanish-speaking second graders learning English. Using a bilingual picture b...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBlending Fiction and Nonfiction to Improve Comprehension and Writing Skills
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, supports the use of a text set (paired fiction and nonfiction texts on a similar topic) to inc...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPIZZAZ! Diamante Poems
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from Leslie Opp-Beckman, English as a Second Language instructor at the University of Oregon, students create di...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Connection Between Poetry and Music
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Visual Arts, MusicIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students listen to poems read aloud and discuss the rhythm and sound of poetry. Students th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShadows
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Science, English-Language Arts, Earth & Space Science, LiteratureIn this Science NetLinks lesson, one of a four-part series on the sky, students explore making shadows. They also track the move...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPatricia Polacco
Grades: TK/K to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on Patricia Polacco, author of stories that reflect her childhood, her struggles and triump...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLetter Poems Deliver: Experimenting with Line Breaks in Poetry Writing
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink lesson uses letter poems to make poetry accessible, meaningful, and fun for children. Letter poems are also ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPoetry from Prose
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students compose found and parallel poems based on descriptive passages from pieces of literature...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Fix
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Grammar, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionWritingFix was designed by writers, teachers, and students to be used by writers, teachers, and students of any age. The site of...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFlying to Freedom: <i>Tar Beach</i> and <i>The People Could Fly</i>
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literary Analysis, Science, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Life SciencesStudents look to the past and use historical context to compare and contrast two characters from folktales.Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0