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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Workshop: Helping Writers Choose and Focus on a Topic
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, helps young writers bring greater focus to their writing. Students use a timeline to break a l...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWalk in My Shoes
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Dance and 2 additional..This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, uses the story "The Brothers of the Knight" to explore materials, shoe desi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Web-Based Bookmarks to Conduct Internet Research
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Technology, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students listen and respond to a read-aloud of "The Important Book," by Margaret Wise Brown, and ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Children's Natural Curiosity to Lead to Descriptive Writing
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionInspired by the book "It Starts with an A," this ReadWriteThink lesson invites kindergarten students to turn their curiosity and...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUse Photos to Write Summer Stories
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this activity from ReadWriteThink, children tell stories about themselves by writing about favorite photos for a homemade sum...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Connection Between Poetry and Music
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Music, Visual Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students listen to poems read aloud and discuss the rhythm and sound of poetry. Students th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden
Grades: TK/K to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on Beverly Cleary, author of award-winning children's books including "Dear Mr. Henshaw" an...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShape Poems: Using the Five Senses
Grades: 1 to 3Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionStudents write shape poems in a flash using the picture book Flicker Flash by Joan Bransfield Graham and the online, interactive...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRain, Ice, Steam: Using Reading to Support Inquiry About the Water Cycle
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Science, Reading Comprehension, Earth & Space ScienceIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students discover the repetitive cycle of water. Read-alouds introduce the topic of rain and hand...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentPoetry Using the 5Ws
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, offers a model for writing a non-rhyming poem using the 5Ws (who, what,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPatricia Polacco
Grades: TK/K to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Literature, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on Patricia Polacco, author of stories that reflect her childhood, her struggles and triump...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPacking the Pilgrim's Trunk: Personalizing History in the Elementary Classroom
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students investigate the Pilgrims--who they were and why they came to America. Through a se...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPacking the Pilgrim’s Trunk: Personalizing History in the Elementary Classroom
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Literary Analysis, United States History, Reading ComprehensionStudents make personal connections between their lives and those of Pilgrim children by following the Pilgrims' move to the New ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMultipurpose Poetry: Introducing Science Concepts and Increasing Fluency
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Science, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, introduces the study of insects in science by using poetry. Students work in cooperative group...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLet's Build a Snowman
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Life Sciences, Visual Arts, Science, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, suggests building a snowman as one way to provide food for birds and animals during the winter...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentLessons in Courage
Grades: 1Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, Reading ComprehensionThis instructional unit, from the Denver Public Schools, includes eight lessons dealing with three American civil rights figures...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLearning Centers: From Shared to Independent Practice
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink lesson provides a framework for using a shared reading experience to introduce independent literacy learning...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJunie B. Jones Introduces Literacy Mystery Boxes
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, the teacher reads aloud the Junie B. Jones selection "Junie B., First Grader (at last!)." S...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkInvolving Students and Families in Ongoing Reflection and Assessment
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink lesson creates a partnership with families by structuring student reflection and family response through dai...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFrom Printed Page to Multimedia: Evolution of a Second-Grade Class Newspaper
Grades: TK/K to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Professional Development, Reading ComprehensionThis article, from the International Reading Association, discusses a project in which the production of a newspaper was integra...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0