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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBook Report Alternative: Summary, Symbol, and Analysis in Bookmarks
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students practice summarizing, recognizing symbols, and writing reviews--all while writing ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBook Reviews, Annotation, and Web Technology
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Technology, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students write a group book review, taking notes in their journals throughout the reading a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBook Report Alternative: Character and Author Business Cards
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students make business cards for characters and authors. As students make the business card...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAudience, Purpose, and Language Use in Electronic Messages
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Technology, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, explores the language of electronic messages and how it affects other writing. Furthermore, it...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkE-pals Around the World
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Technology, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, helps teachers select e-pals for their students and develop real-life writing and learning exp...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHeroes Around Us
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Humanities, Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students explore the distinction between a hero and an idol. Students select, read about, a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Folktales
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Visual Arts, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students explore the common elements of folktales and tall tales, while learning how these tales built ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPersuasive Essay: Environmental Issues
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore environmental issues that are relevant to their own lives, self-select topics, a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting an Original Fable
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Literature, Visual Arts, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, TheatreIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students write original fables using the stages of the writing process. ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching Voice with Anthony Browne's "Voices in the Park"
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink lesson focuses on the concept of voice, which is often difficult for middle school students to incorporate i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWright Brothers
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Science, Technology, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the Wright brothers and their historic first flight in 1903. A classroom activity is fea...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWorld Poetry Day
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on poetry and the celebration of "World Poetry Day" each March 21st. A classroom activity i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Word Webs to Teach Synonyms for Commonly Used Words
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Vocabulary & Spelling, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, uses word webs as a tool to expose students to synonyms for common words, to help students cho...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBibbidi Bobbidi Tunes
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Music, Visual Arts, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis ARTSEDGE lesson explores the contrasting styles of the song "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" from the Disney movie "Cinderella" and a ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPicture Books as Framing Texts: Research Paper Strategies for Struggling Writers
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, picture books give students frames for structuring research projects, freeing them from the langu...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMarian Anderson Is Denied Permission to Sing at Constitution Hall
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, United States History, Music and 3 additional..This ReadWriteThink resource focuses on Eleanor Roosevelt's protest over African American singer Marian Anderson being banned fr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPaul Fleischman
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Literature, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on novelist and poet Paul Fleischman. A classroom activity is featured in which students wr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWilliam Carlos Williams
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Literature, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the style of American writer William Carlos Williams. A classroom activity is featured i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkReciprocal Revision: Making Peer Feedback Meaningful
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Visual Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, is designed to help middle school students develop more constructive peer feedback on writing ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Free Verse in the "Voice" of Cesar Chavez
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, United States HistoryIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students familiarize themselves with the characteristics of free verse and write a free verse poe...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0