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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriters Strategies
Grades: TK/K to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Professional DevelopmentThis 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: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Humanities, World HistoryThis 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: English-Language Arts, Reading strategies, Vocabulary & SpellingVocabulary 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, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, Vocabulary & SpellingWord 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: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, United States History, 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, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary & SpellingThe 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: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary & SpellingThis 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: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary & SpellingIn 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: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary & SpellingThis 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: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesThis 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: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary & SpellingIn 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, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Literary Analysis, Vocabulary & SpellingStudents 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: Grammar, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, Vocabulary & SpellingUsing 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: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary & SpellingThis 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: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, MusicThis 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: Grammar, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Reading Comprehension, Science 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