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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkYoung Writers Workshop
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, 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 / HyperLinkUsing Children’s Natural Curiosity to Lead to Descriptive Writing
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, 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 / HyperLinkWeekend News! A Weekly Writing Activity
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, 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 / HyperLinkPattern Writing: Combining Words Into Structured Ideas
Grades: 1 to 3Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Grammar, Professional DevelopmentThe YouthLearn Initiative at the EDC (Education Development Center) presents this selection of ideas and activities for teaching...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: English-Language Arts, Life Sciences, Reading Comprehension, ScienceStudents 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 / HyperLinkEducation Place: Graphic Organizers
Grades: 1 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Literary AnalysisThis page, from Houghton Mifflin s Education Place, features a collection of reproducible graphic organizers. Teachers can choos...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThere's a Nightmare in My Closet
Grades: 1 to 3Subjects: Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Literary AnalysisIn this lesson, from the Educator s Reference Desk, students will demonstrate their understanding of concepts illustrated in The...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDr. King's Dream
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: History-Social Science, Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, United States HistoryIn this lesson from EDSITEment, students learn about the life and work of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Students l...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSodbusters!
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, United States History, 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 / HyperLinkStories in Quilts
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Literature, United States HistoryThis unit of four lessons, from EDSITEment, explores the history and culture of quilt-making. Quilts can be works of art as well...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDraw a Story: Stepping from Pictures to Writing
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, 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 / HyperLinkComposing Cinquain Poems: A Quick-Writing Activity
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students write simple cinquain poetry of their own as a follow-up to a subject they have bee...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFrom Fact to Fiction: Drawing and Writing Stories
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students use factual information gathered from the Internet as the basis for creating a nonfictio...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGet Writing with "Weekend News!"
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, 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 / 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 / HyperLinkPowerful Writing: Description in Creating Monster Trading Cards
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students create original names for monsters of their own creation while also stressing the ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Workshop: Helping Writers Choose and Focus on a Topic
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, helps young writers bring greater focus to their writing. Students use a timeline to break a l...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShapes Art
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Mathematics, LiteratureIn 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: English-Language Arts, Mathematics, Number Sense, 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: DocumentPoetry Using the 5Ws
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, 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