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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkReading and Writing Workshop: <em>Freak the Mighty</em>
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary & Spelling, Literary Analysis, GrammarStudents use a variety of reading and writing strategies as they read Rodman Philbrick’s Freak the Mighty.Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPostmodern Picture Books in Middle School
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Literary AnalysisStudents analyze the structure of a postmodern picture book, Black and White, to uncover how authors create unexpected plots and...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFinding Figurative Language in <i>The Phantom Tollbooth</i>
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary & Spelling, GrammarStudents examine figurative language in The Phantom Tollbooth and create a chart representing the literal and figurative meaning...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkValentine's Day is today!
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Students find examples of figurative language and write an original example of each device, illustrate, and share them with the ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIf I Were the Author
Grades: TK/K to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Professional DevelopmentThis page, from the Journey North Web site, features a strategy to help students explore questions about an author s viewpoint, ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSnapshot Sentences
Grades: 2 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Professional DevelopmentThis page, from the Journey North Web site, contains information on how to use sentences with sensory details as an instructiona...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSpin and Share
Grades: TK/K to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Professional DevelopmentThis page, from the Journey North Web site, contains information about using a labeled spinner as an instructional strategy. Eac...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMining for Descriptive Gold: Using Descriptive Writing to Illustrate with Words
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, found on the New York Times Learning Network, students examine the vivid description one writer uses to bring an...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language ArtsIn this series of lessons, from EDSITEment, students learn about the 19th-century author Hans Christian Andersen, who created vi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkReading and Writing Workshop: "Freak The Mighty"
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary & SpellingThis lesson plan, from ReadWriteThink, is a novel study of "Freak the Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick. The lesson includes the model...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentFigurative Language Resource Page
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesThis student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, offers examples of and definitions for several types of figurative lang...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFigurative Language Awards Ceremony
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students use their background knowledge of figurative language. They listen to texts read a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0- Resource Type: Document
Figurative Language
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesThis student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, provides definitions of several types of figurative language, including...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0 - Resource Type: Document
Riddle Poem Features
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesThis student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, defines figurative language terms, rhetorical devices and poetic sound ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0 
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBook Report Alternative: Examining Story Elements Using Story Map Comic Strips
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students use a six-paneled comic strip to create a story map, summarizing a book or story t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLift Every Voice and Sing
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Literature, United States History, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts and 2 additional..This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, explores the origins of "The Black National Anthem," which was originally a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFiction, Creating Characters
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, TheatreIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students explore characterization as an element of fiction. They learn h...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFiction, Setting the Story
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students explore how to use the elements of fiction to enhance and devel...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDeveloping Students' Critical Thinking Skills Through Whole-Class Dialogue
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, World History, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students listen to a book read aloud by the teacher or read it silently by themselves. Afte...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOnce Upon a Time Rethought: Writing Fractured Fairy Tales
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Literature, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students work together to craft a list of common fairy tale elements. They then explore and analy...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0