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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkYou’re the Director!
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Theatre, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, English-Language ArtsBuild on a child’s love of movies to explore film as a way of telling stories. Using this printout, a child can sketch out an or...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkYou're the Detective
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis ThinkQuest resource features a collection of mystery stories for students to read. Some of the stories are story starters,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkwww.me.com
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Principles of Design, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsActivity in which students create an autobiographical comic book or graphic novel to go on a blog Web site.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting with Writers: Writing a Book Review
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis resource, from Scholastic, features its Writing with Writers teacher resource. Writing book reviews with author Rodman Ph...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Research Papers: A Step-by-step Procedure
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesThis page, from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL), is part of a large collection of resources on grammar, spelling,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Guides
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesThis page, from Colorado State University, provides extensive material for writers. Included are writing guides on reading, the ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Free Verse in the "Voice" of Cesar Chavez
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: United States History, Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students familiarize themselves with the characteristics of free verse and write a free verse poe...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Folktales
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Visual ArtsIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students explore the common elements of folktales and tall tales, while learning how these tales built ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting an Original Fable
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Theatre, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Literature, Visual ArtsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students write original fables using the stages of the writing process. ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Alternative Plots for Robert C. O'Brien's "Z for Zachariah"
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students read the science fiction novel "Z for Zachariah," by Robert C. O'Brien. This book i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Alternative Plots for Robert C. O’Brien's <em>Z for Zachariah</em>
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsStudents write new endings for the science fiction novel, Z for Zachariah by exploring alternative plotlines created by making d...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting a Flashback and Flash-Forward Story Using Movies and Texts as Models
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students are introduced to examples of flashbacks and flash-forwards through the film "The S...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriteDesign Online: Graphic Organizers
Grades: 1 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Literary AnalysisThis page, from WriteDesign, offers information about graphic organizers and their use in the classroom. There are links to seve...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWrite Sports Trivia
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Physical Education, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Sports and CompetitionIn this activity from ReadWriteThink, children look at different online baseball trivia questions to see how they are written. T...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWrite Letters to Friends and Family
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesThis activity from ReadWriteThink invites children to write letters to classmates, postcards from travels, or e-mails to family ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWrite a Gem of a Poem
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, GrammarLearn about diamante poems, and then consider the idea of cause and effect before working it into the diamante poem format.Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWright Brothers
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Technology, Science, Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the Wright brothers and their historic first flight in 1903. A classroom activity is fea...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWorld Poetry Day
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on poetry and the celebration of "World Poetry Day" each March 21st. A classroom activity i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWorkshop 5: Teaching Multigenre Writing
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Professional DevelopmentThis resource, from Learner.org, provides a workshop on multigenre writing, an eclectic approach to writing instruction that off...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWordle
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Technology, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, English Language DevelopmentThis beautiful web site takes text that you copy and paste into the application and creates a word art. The transition words ar...Contributor: Victoria WilliamsViews: 0Favorites: 0