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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriters Strategies
Grades: TK/K to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Professional Development, English-Language ArtsThis page, from the Journey North Web site, features information about different strategies writers use to communicate ideas eff...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWorld Hello Day
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Humanities, Reading Comprehension, World History, History-Social Science, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on "World Hello Day," started in 1973 to promote peace between Egypt and Israel. A classroo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWords with Multiple Meanings
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading strategies, Vocabulary & Spelling, English-Language ArtsVocabulary site from TV411 that provides support for understanding and using words with multiple meanings. Interactive slideshow...Contributor: Stephen PolitzerViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWords and Spelling
Grades: 3 to 6Subjects: English-Language ArtsThis website has several links to interactive games; suffix, prefix, root words, multiple meaning words, etc. It is a BBC websit...Contributor: Chris EckertViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWord Central
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: Grammar, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, Vocabulary & Spelling, English-Language ArtsWord Central, presented by Merriam-Webster, Inc., is a Web site designed for students to have fun with words. The site has been ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentWord Art with King's Words
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 4Subjects: Reading Comprehension, United States History, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Literary AnalysisExamine one or more of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s letters or speeches and turn powerful words and phrases into word art using ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVocabulary University
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Grammar, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary & Spelling, English-Language ArtsThe Vocabulary University Web site provides learning activities, tools for test preparation, reading recommendations, vocabulary...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Word Webs to Teach Synonyms for Commonly Used Words
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary & Spelling, 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 / HyperLinkUsing Word Storms to Explore Vocabulary and Encourage Critical Thinking
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary & Spelling, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students are introduced to the concept of working dogs and how they help society. Students read a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTo, Too, or Two: Developing an Understanding of Homophones
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary & Spelling, English-Language ArtsThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, focuses on the "word demons" that can complicate spelling and vocabulary. Some of the most com...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Poetry Forge
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis site offers a variety of interactive poetry tools designed to allow student writers to actively and mindfully work through ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSeamus Heaney was born on this day in 1939.
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Students focus on the figurative language in Heaney's poem, "Digging," and discuss the speaker's attitude, and how metaphor, sim...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRooting out Meaning: Morpheme Match-Ups in the Primary Grades
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary & Spelling, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students engage in morphemic analysis by using their knowledge of morphemes to define words, usin...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkReading and Writing Workshop: <em>Freak the Mighty</em>
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Grammar, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary & Spelling, English-Language Arts, Literary AnalysisStudents use a variety of reading and writing strategies as they read Rodman Philbrick’s Freak the Mighty.Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPendemonium; The Italian Job
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language ArtsIn this Discovery Education lesson, students will: * Identify prefixes, roots, and suffixes. * Analyze word parts to ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOneLook Dictionary Search
Grades: 1 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Grammar, Writing Strategies, Vocabulary & Spelling, English-Language ArtsUsing the OneLook Dictionary Search, students can search for definitions and synonyms, as well as translations for words in lang...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMy World of Words: Building Vocabulary Lists
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary & Spelling, English-Language ArtsThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, uses students' areas of interest both in and out of school to generate personalized vocabulary...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLook in the Mythic Mirror
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Visual Arts, Music, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis unit of eight lessons, from ARTSEDGE, focuses on Greek mythology, archetypal heroes, Classical literature, storytelling, We...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLearning to Learn with <em>Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster</em>
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Theatre, Grammar, Vocabulary & Spelling, Visual Arts & Performing Arts and 4 additional..Students combine vocabulary exploration with word play by planning their own vocabulary parade, modeled on the activities in the...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLangston Hughes was born in 1902.
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Students examine the poem "Dreams" and identify metaphors in each sentence. Groups of students then compose poems with metaphors...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0