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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring and Sharing Family Stories
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students access their own life experiences and then discuss family stories they have heard....Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCooking up Descriptive Language: Designing Restaurant Menus
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Grammar, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore the genre of menus by analyzing existing menus from local restaurants. They revi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWalter Dean Myers
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Literature, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on Walter Dean Myers, author of dozens of young adult novels and other works, including "Mo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkKaren Hesse
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, United States History, Literature, Reading Comprehension and 2 additional..This ReadWriteThink resource focuses on Karen Hesse, who has authored a number of works of historical fiction that bring history...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhen I Was Young In... A Literature to Language Experience
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Grammar, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, appropriate for English language learners, students develop an understanding of the experiences s...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBook Report Alternative: A Character's Letter to the Editor
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students identify an issue or situation that would spur a novel's character to try to persuade ot...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAlphabiography Project: Totally You
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students write alphabiographies--by recording an event, person, object or feeling associated with...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCampaigning for Fair Use: Public Service Announcements on Copyright Awareness
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Technology, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore a range of resources on fair use and copyright then design their own audio publi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTravel Brochures: Highlighting the Setting of a Story
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson students create a travel brochure for a location in a text that they have read. Students think abo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSlipping, Sliding, Tumbling: Reinforcing Cause and Effect Through Diamante Poems
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink lesson uses diamante poems to illustrate the phenomenon of cause and effect. Students define and identify ca...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOnce Upon a Fairy Tale: Teaching Revision as a Concept
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Literature, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students establish a definition of revision as a multi-level process. They first examine fracture...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkComparing and Contrasting: Picturing an Organizational Pattern
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students investigate picture books organized in comparison/contrast structures to discover method...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPocahontas Marries John Rolfe
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, United States History, History-Social Science, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the facts and fiction surrounding the legend of Pocahontas. A classroom activity is feat...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDigital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore both facts and feelings about a topic, and make self-text-world connections as t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBoys Read: Considering Courage in Novels
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students read novels with strong male protagonists in order to examine the notion of courage and ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEmpowered Fiction Writers: Generating and Organizing Ideas for Story Writing
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink lesson introduces students to the use of speedwriting (also called free writing) as a prewriting technique. ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGuided Comprehension in Action: Teaching Summarizing With the Bio-Cube
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students learn about how biographies are constructed using the Guided Comprehension model develop...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkImprove Students' Writing Using Online Workshops
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureThis ReadWriteThink lesson uses a picture book to encourage students to consider the myriad possibilities in "if" statements. Wh...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDiscovering Memory: Li-Young Lee's Poem "Mnemonic" and the Brain
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Life Sciences, Writing Strategies, Literature, Reading Comprehension and 2 additional..In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students first write about memory. They then use Web resources to learn how memory works and appl...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCopyright Law: From Digital Reprints to Downloads
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students read about the history of copyright law and generalize about how and why it has changed....Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0