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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMemories Matter: <em>The Giver</em> and Descriptive Writing Memoirs
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionUsing The Giver, students discuss the importance recorded history. This provides context for descriptive writing of students’ ow...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExpository Escapade?Detective’s Handbook
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Vocabulary & Spelling, Grammar, Reading ComprehensionStudents create a Detective's Handbook based on a detective mystery they have read. The handbooks include expository and descrip...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIt's Halloween!
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionStudents research information on Halloween, create masks or costumes from a text they are reading, or write a narrative essay de...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHans Christian Andersen was born on this date in 1805.
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionStudents write a brief summary of one of Andersen's stories, and then read the original story and compare the two versions of t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOnce Upon a Time: Writing Stories about Reading
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, found on the New York Times Learning Network, students first take an inventory of their own histories as readers...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCollecting Their Thoughts: Telling Your Story
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Students tell a story from the point of view of someone who lived in a time depicted in a museum exhibition.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNew Takes on Old Tales
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Geography, Literature, English-Language ArtsIn this Xpeditions student activity, students revamp a classic fairy tale so that it takes place in today's world. They base the...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShadows
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Science, Literature, English-Language Arts, Earth & Space ScienceIn 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 / HyperLinkFairy Tales, Then and Now
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: History-Social Science, Geography, Literature, English-Language ArtsIn this Xpeditions lesson, students read an old fairy tale or story and list the geographical features and characters described ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExpository Escapade-Detective's Handbook
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Vocabulary & Spelling, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students combine reading in the detective fiction genre with expository writing. Embedded in...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Picture Books to Teach Setting Development in Writing Workshop
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students examine the craft of developing the setting of a story through focused experiences...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGuided Comprehension: Summarizing Using the QuIP Strategy
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionBased on the Guided Comprehension Model developed by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson introduces students to ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCreating a Classroom Newspaper
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students write authentic newspaper stories. Various aspects of newspapers are covered, incl...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching the Compare and Contrast Essay through Modeling
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students and teacher together create the first half of a draft of a comparison and contrast...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDemonstrating Comprehension Through Journal Writing
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students demonstrate comprehension by responding to open-ended questions based on the 1939 ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkImagine That! Playing with Genre through Newspapers and Short Stories
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, uses narrative structures to introduce students to one form of expository writing--news briefs...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEveryone Loves a Mystery: A Genre Study
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students examine story elements and vocabulary associated with mystery stories. Students co...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExamining Plot Conflict through a Comparison/Contrast Essay
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students identify the characteristics of conflict using picture books. They complete graphi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOnce Upon a Time Rethought: Writing Fractured Fairy Tales
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, 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
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMary Hoffman
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on Mary Hoffman, author of the Amazing Grace series of books. A classroom activity is featu...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0