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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkValentine's Day is today!
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Students find examples of figurative language and write an original example of each device, illustrate, and share them with the ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTwo Thumbs Up! Get Students Writing and Publishing Book Reviews
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students evaluate book reviews written by other children. Next, they discuss the effectiveness of...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSpin and Share
Grades: TK/K to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Professional DevelopmentThis page, from the Journey North Web site, contains information about using a labeled spinner as an instructional strategy. Eac...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSnapshot Sentences
Grades: 2 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Professional DevelopmentThis page, from the Journey North Web site, contains information on how to use sentences with sensory details as an instructiona...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentRiddle Poem Features
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, defines figurative language terms, rhetorical devices and poetic sound ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkReading and Writing Workshop: "Freak The Mighty"
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary & Spelling, English-Language Arts, LiteratureThis lesson plan, from ReadWriteThink, is a novel study of "Freak the Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick. The lesson includes the model...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkReading and Writing Workshop: <em>Freak the Mighty</em>
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Literary Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary & Spelling, English-Language Arts, GrammarStudents use a variety of reading and writing strategies as they read Rodman Philbrick’s Freak the Mighty.Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPostmodern Picture Books in Middle School
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Literary Analysis, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsStudents analyze the structure of a postmodern picture book, Black and White, to uncover how authors create unexpected plots and...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOnce Upon a Time Rethought: Writing Fractured Fairy Tales
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn 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 / HyperLinkMining for Descriptive Gold: Using Descriptive Writing to Illustrate with Words
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, found on the New York Times Learning Network, students examine the vivid description one writer uses to bring an...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLift Every Voice and Sing
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Music, Visual Arts, History-Social Science, Literature and 2 additional..This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, explores the origins of "The Black National Anthem," which was originally a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLeading to Great Places in the Elementary Classroom
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students examine examples of leads in children's literature such as setting, action, character, r...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIf I Were the Author
Grades: TK/K to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Professional DevelopmentThis page, from the Journey North Web site, features a strategy to help students explore questions about an author s viewpoint, ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn this series of lessons, from EDSITEment, students learn about the 19th-century author Hans Christian Andersen, who created vi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGraphing Plot and Character in a Novel
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, United States History, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students graphically illustrate events in the plot of the story, "The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFinding Figurative Language in <i>The Phantom Tollbooth</i>
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary & Spelling, English-Language Arts, GrammarStudents examine figurative language in The Phantom Tollbooth and create a chart representing the literal and figurative meaning...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0- Resource Type: Document
Figurative Language Resource Page
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, offers examples of and definitions for several types of figurative lang...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0 
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFigurative Language Awards Ceremony
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students use their background knowledge of figurative language. They listen to texts read a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0- Resource Type: Document
Figurative Language
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, provides definitions of several types of figurative language, including...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0 
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFiction, Setting the Story
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, LiteratureIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students explore how to use the elements of fiction to enhance and devel...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0