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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBook Report Alternative: A Character's Letter to the Editor
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Literature, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn 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: Literature, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn 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: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Technology, English-Language ArtsIn 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: Literature, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn 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: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis 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: Literature, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsIn 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: Literature, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn 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: Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, United States HistoryThis 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 / HyperLinkBoys Read: Considering Courage in Novels
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Literature, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn 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: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis 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: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn 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: Literature, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis 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: Literature, Writing Strategies, Science, 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: Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students read about the history of copyright law and generalize about how and why it has changed....Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTechnology and Copyright Law: A "Futurespective"
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Technology, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students review some copyright disputes involving new technologies. They then write newspaper art...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWrite Letters to Friends and Family
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis activity from ReadWriteThink invites children to write letters to classmates, postcards from travels, or e-mails to family ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCelebrate Heroes
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this activity from ReadWriteThink, children are encouraged to spend a little time thinking and writing about just what makes ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExplore Summers Past and Present
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsHave fun sharing favorite summer memories. In this activity from ReadWriteThink, children think about their own memories and ans...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWrite Sports Trivia
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Physical Education, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Sports and Competition, English-Language ArtsIn this activity from ReadWriteThink, children look at different online baseball trivia questions to see how they are written. T...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkViewing Vocabulary: Building Word Knowledge Through Informational Websites
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary & Spelling, English-Language ArtsThis lesson from ReadWriteThink encourages students to thoughtfully read a text to identify important words, discuss those words...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0