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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWomen and Sports
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson plan, from Discovery School, intermediate students develop reading, writing, and verbal skills as they research t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWilliam Carlos Williams
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Literature, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the style of American writer William Carlos Williams. A classroom activity is featured i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhy Cite Information Sources?
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesThis page, from the Kentucky Virtual Library, discusses the importance of citing information sources, in order to lend credibili...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhole Lotta' Lava: Creating Volcanology Reports Modeled After Meteorological News Segments
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Science, Earth & Space Science, Career & Technical Ed, History-Social Science and 4 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students learn about the most recent research in the field of volcanol...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhen I Was Young In... A Literature to Language Experience
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, GrammarIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, appropriate for English language learners, students develop an understanding of the experiences s...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWalter Dean Myers
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Literature, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on Walter Dean Myers, author of dozens of young adult novels and other works, including "Mo...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
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 / HyperLinkTravel Brochures: Highlighting the Setting of a Story
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Literature, 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 / HyperLinkThe Boston Tea Party: Costume Optional?
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, United States HistoryThis lesson, from EDSITEment, contains three activities for students to study the events of the Boston Tea Party of 1776 and ref...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTechnology and Copyright Law: A "Futurespective"
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Technology, Reading Comprehension, 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 / HyperLinkTeaching Voice with Anthony Browne's "Voices in the Park"
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink lesson focuses on the concept of voice, which is often difficult for middle school students to incorporate i...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 / HyperLinkShe Did What? Revising for Connotation
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students examine the simple sentence, "She walked into the room." Students act out ways that...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkReciprocal Revision: Making Peer Feedback Meaningful
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Visual Arts, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, is designed to help middle school students develop more constructive peer feedback on writing ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkProject Planning Management
Grades: 11 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.A gantt chart is a common tool for project planning and keeping track of the status of individual tasks within a project. This...Contributor: CTE OnlineViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPolishing Preposition Skills through Poetry and Publication
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, GrammarThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, uses the text "Behind the Mask," to deepen and refine student understanding of prepositions, ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPocahontas Marries John Rolfe
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Writing Strategies, 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 / HyperLinkPicture Books as Framing Texts: Research Paper Strategies for Struggling Writers
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, picture books give students frames for structuring research projects, freeing them from the langu...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPersuasive Essay: Environmental Issues
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore environmental issues that are relevant to their own lives, self-select topics, a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0