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Resource Type: DocumentLessons in Courage
Grades: 1Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis instructional unit, from the Denver Public Schools, includes eight lessons dealing with three American civil rights figures...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkChinese Instruments
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Music, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from ARTSEDGE, students identify and classify Western instruments and traditional Chinese instruments. Each stud...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPacking the Pilgrim’s Trunk: Personalizing History in the Elementary Classroom
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, Reading Comprehension, Literary Analysis, English-Language ArtsStudents make personal connections between their lives and those of Pilgrim children by following the Pilgrims' move to the New ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEducation Place: Graphic Organizers
Grades: 1 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Literary Analysis, English-Language ArtsThis page, from Houghton Mifflin s Education Place, features a collection of reproducible graphic organizers. Teachers can choos...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFrom Printed Page to Multimedia: Evolution of a Second-Grade Class Newspaper
Grades: TK/K to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Professional Development, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis article, from the International Reading Association, discusses a project in which the production of a newspaper was integra...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShape Poems: Using the Five Senses
Grades: 1 to 3Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionStudents write shape poems in a flash using the picture book Flicker Flash by Joan Bransfield Graham and the online, interactive...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEvery Picture Tells a Story K-4
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Measurement & Geometry, Mathematics, Earth & Space Science, English-Language Arts and 2 additional..In this activity, from the Burns Telecommunication Center, Montana State University, students discover that what you see is not ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDr. King's Dream
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Visual Arts, United States History, History-Social Science, English-Language ArtsIn 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 / HyperLinkA Journal for Corduroy: Responding to Literature
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Literature, English-Language ArtsThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, leads first-grade students to reflect on and respond to literature through journal writing. St...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDraw a Story: Stepping from Pictures to Writing
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Visual Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsIn 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 / HyperLinkUsing Children's Natural Curiosity to Lead to Descriptive Writing
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsInspired by the book "It Starts with an A," this ReadWriteThink lesson invites kindergarten students to turn their curiosity and...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMultipurpose Poetry: Introducing Science Concepts and Increasing Fluency
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, introduces the study of insects in science by using poetry. Students work in cooperative group...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFrom Fact to Fiction: Drawing and Writing Stories
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsIn 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 / HyperLinkLearning Centers: From Shared to Independent Practice
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesThis ReadWriteThink lesson provides a framework for using a shared reading experience to introduce independent literacy learning...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCollaborative Stories 1: Prewriting and Drafting
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students engage in prewriting activities that include writing the beginning of a story and b...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLet's Build a Snowman
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Life Sciences, Visual Arts, Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, suggests building a snowman as one way to provide food for birds and animals during the winter...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWalk in My Shoes
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Dance, Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science and 2 additional..This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, uses the story "The Brothers of the Knight" to explore materials, shoe desi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, United States History, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the "I Have a Dream" Foundation and Dr. Martin Luther King's famous speech of the same n...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Workshop: Helping Writers Choose and Focus on a Topic
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis 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 / HyperLinkAcrostic Poems: All About Me and My Favorite Things
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students are introduced to acrostic poetry. They create poems using their names as a starting poi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0