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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMaking the Personal Political: Writing Opinion Pieces About Meaningful Issues to Kids
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Career & Technical Ed, Arts, Media, & EntertainmentIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students identify controversial topics on which they have strong opini...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEndangered Species - Persuasive Writing
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Career & Technical Ed, Arts, Media, & EntertainmentThis student reproducible is from ABCTeach. Students are asked to play the role of a newspaper reporter, select a topic related ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"Got Milk?" or "Not Milk!"? - That Is the Question: Critically Analyzing Information about Dairy Products on the Internet
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Nutrition, Technology, Reading Comprehension and 2 additional..Is milk good for you or not good for you? In this lesson, found on the New York Times Learning Network, students explore both si...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPersuasion Map
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this student interactive, used in several ReadWriteThink lessons, students map out their argument for a persuasive essay or d...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDear Librarian: Writing a Persuasive Letter
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students write to their school librarian, requesting that a specific text be added to the school ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden
Grades: TK/K to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on Beverly Cleary, author of award-winning children's books including "Dear Mr. Henshaw" an...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Case for Reading?Examining Challenged and Banned Books
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionStudents examine books, selected from the American Library Association Challenged/Banned Books list, and write persuasive pieces...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLiterary Characters on Trial: Combining Persuasion and Literary Analysis
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students read a work of literature as a class and then brainstorm "crimes" committed by cha...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPersuasive Pressures: Exploring Ways to Win Votes and Influence People
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, American DemocracyIn this lesson, found on the New York Times Learning Network, students investigate various lobbying groups. They then practice l...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWrite Letters That Make Things Happen!
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension and 2 additional..This ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the letter that U.S. schoolgirl Samantha Smith wrote to Russian premier Yuri Andropov in...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkListen to the Nightingale
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Music, Visual ArtsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students learn music vocabulary and use it to assess David Maddox's musi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHave Web, Will Travel! Creating Web-Based Travel Guides for Vacation Destinations
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Geography, Technology, Writing Strategies and 2 additional..In this lesson, found on the New York Times Learning Network, students examine the many applications of the Internet in travel p...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLearning the Hard Way: Examining School Segregation Around the World
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Geography, Writing Strategies, History-Social Science and 4 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students explore school segregation that currently exists in countries...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDown to the Wire: Debating the Worth of Computers in Schools
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Technology, Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, found on the New York Times Learning Network, students reflect on their computer use and explore various perspec...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0