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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPaul Fleischman
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, LiteratureThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on novelist and poet Paul Fleischman. A classroom activity is featured in which students wr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOnce Upon a Fairy Tale: Teaching Revision as a Concept
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students establish a definition of revision as a multi-level process. They first examine fracture...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMemories Matter: "The Giver" and Descriptive Writing Memoirs
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students combine reading with descriptive writing. Students read "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMarian Anderson Is Denied Permission to Sing at Constitution Hall
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Visual Arts and 3 additional..This ReadWriteThink resource focuses on Eleanor Roosevelt's protest over African American singer Marian Anderson being banned fr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkKaren Hesse
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension and 2 additional..This ReadWriteThink resource focuses on Karen Hesse, who has authored a number of works of historical fiction that bring history...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIntroducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, and Internet Research
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students read, write, speak, listen, and research as they interview a partner and write an a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkImprove Students' Writing Using Online Workshops
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, LiteratureThis ReadWriteThink lesson uses a picture book to encourage students to consider the myriad possibilities in "if" statements. Wh...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHeroes Around Us
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, HumanitiesIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students explore the distinction between a hero and an idol. Students select, read about, a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGuided Comprehension in Action: Teaching Summarizing With the Bio-Cube
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students learn about how biographies are constructed using the Guided Comprehension model develop...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring and Sharing Family Stories
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students access their own life experiences and then discuss family stories they have heard....Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExplore Summers Past and Present
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsHave fun sharing favorite summer memories. In this activity from ReadWriteThink, children think about their own memories and ans...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkE-pals Around the World
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Technology, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, helps teachers select e-pals for their students and develop real-life writing and learning exp...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEmpowered Fiction Writers: Generating and Organizing Ideas for Story Writing
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink lesson introduces students to the use of speedwriting (also called free writing) as a prewriting technique. ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDiscovering Memory: Li-Young Lee's Poem "Mnemonic" and the Brain
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Life Sciences, Science and 2 additional..In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students first write about memory. They then use Web resources to learn how memory works and appl...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDigital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore both facts and feelings about a topic, and make self-text-world connections as t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCulture Shock
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Geography, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, History-Social ScienceThis Xpeditions lesson asks students to think about how cultural customs differ throughout the world. Students research a foreig...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCreative Writing Through Wordless Picture Books
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students are exposed to wordless picture books, and they begin developing story lines orall...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCreative Communication Frames: Discovering Similarities Between Writing and Art
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students build a comparative frame to explore the creative processes of writing and art as c...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCosmic Oranges: Observation and Inquiry Through Descriptive Writing and Art
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, ScienceThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, employs scientific observation, descriptive writing, sketching, reading, investigation, and po...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCopyright Law: From Digital Reprints to Downloads
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, History-Social ScienceIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students read about the history of copyright law and generalize about how and why it has changed....Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0