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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring Cause and Effect Using Expository Texts About Natural Disasters
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Literature, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore the nature and structure of expository texts focusing on cause and effect. After...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkClassZone.com: Maniac Magee
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis, Reading ComprehensionHoughton Mifflin s ClassZone provides this novel guide for Jerry Spinelli s Maniac Magee. Teachers will find information about...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExamining Plot Conflict through a Comparison/Contrast Essay
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, LiteratureIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students identify the characteristics of conflict using picture books. They complete graphi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLet's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for English-Language Learners
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Vocabulary & Spelling, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson from ReadWriteThink can be adapted for Spanish-speaking second graders learning English. Using a bilingual picture b...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAnimal Spirit and Powers (Nahuales)
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Foreign Languages, Writing StrategiesThis lesson, from ARTSEDGE, teaches basic elements of poetic verse in Spanish and English (sensory use, imagery, stanza, poetic ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAlaska Native Stories: Using Narrative to Introduce Expository Text
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, uses traditional stories (i.e., narrative text) of native peoples of the northwest to introduc...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBlending Fiction and Nonfiction to Improve Comprehension and Writing Skills
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, supports the use of a text set (paired fiction and nonfiction texts on a similar topic) to inc...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWorld Hello Day
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Humanities, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, 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 / HyperLinkPIZZAZ! Diamante Poems
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from Leslie Opp-Beckman, English as a Second Language instructor at the University of Oregon, students create di...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGo West: Imagining the Oregon Trail
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, United States History, Geography, Writing Strategies, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson from EDSITEment, students compare imagined travel experiences of their own with the actual experiences of 19th-ce...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Connection Between Poetry and Music
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Music, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students listen to poems read aloud and discuss the rhythm and sound of poetry. Students th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShadows
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Science, Earth & Space Science, LiteratureIn this Science NetLinks lesson, one of a four-part series on the sky, students explore making shadows. They also track the move...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPatricia Polacco
Grades: TK/K to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Literature, Writing StrategiesThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on Patricia Polacco, author of stories that reflect her childhood, her struggles and triump...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIt Came from Greek Mythology
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Literature, Writing Strategies, History-Social ScienceIn this unit of six lessons, from EDSITEment, students study basic plots of three Greek myths and discuss three common themes in...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLetter Poems Deliver: Experimenting with Line Breaks in Poetry Writing
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesThis ReadWriteThink lesson uses letter poems to make poetry accessible, meaningful, and fun for children. Letter poems are also ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDeveloping Students' Critical Thinking Skills Through Whole-Class Dialogue
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Literature, World History, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students listen to a book read aloud by the teacher or read it silently by themselves. Afte...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPoetry from Prose
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Literature, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students compose found and parallel poems based on descriptive passages from pieces of literature...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLook in the Mythic Mirror
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Music, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesThis unit of eight lessons, from ARTSEDGE, focuses on Greek mythology, archetypal heroes, Classical literature, storytelling, We...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCinderella Folk Tales: Variations in Character
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Geography, Literature, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students compare and contrast several versions of Cinderella stories told around the world to f...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLeading to Great Places in the Elementary Classroom
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Literature, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students examine examples of leads in children's literature such as setting, action, character, r...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0