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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFree Graphic Organizers
Grades: 1 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Graphic organizers, Writing StrategiesThe graphic organizers provided here are, for the most part, plain in appearance. Allow students to create their own look to the...Contributor: Deborah LawsonViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Fix
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Grammar, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesWritingFix was designed by writers, teachers, and students to be used by writers, teachers, and students of any age. The site of...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMental Imagery in Reading: A Sampler of Some Significant Studies
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Professional Development, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis article, from the International Reading Association, discusses key reading research that examines the effects of mental ima...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWord Play: Examining the Writing Process Through Autobiography
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students define the steps of the formal writing process and analyze ex...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBehind the Scenes with Cinderella
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Geography, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, begins by having students compare a version of the Cinderella folk tale from France with a ver...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOnce Upon a Time Rethought: Writing Fractured Fairy Tales
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students work together to craft a list of common fairy tale elements. They then explore and analy...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPostmodern Picture Books in Middle School
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionStudents analyze the structure of a postmodern picture book, Black and White, to uncover how authors create unexpected plots and...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMind Pictures: Strategies That Enhance Mental Imagery While Reading
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students create mental images while reading using a three-pronged approach. The first approach de...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentFigurative Language Resource Page
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesThis student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, offers examples of and definitions for several types of figurative lang...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEmblems of the Land I Love: Exploring the History and Impact of Patriotic Images
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, United States HistoryIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students explore the histories of American patriotic emblems and exami...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUnwinding a Circular Plot: Prediction Strategies in Reading and Writing
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, builds on students' existing knowledge of plot structure and of cycles in other content areas,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFlying to Freedom: <i>Tar Beach</i> and <i>The People Could Fly</i>
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literary Analysis, Life Sciences, English-Language Arts, Science, Reading ComprehensionStudents look to the past and use historical context to compare and contrast two characters from folktales.Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkReading and Writing Workshop: <em>Freak the Mighty</em>
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Grammar, Vocabulary & Spelling, Reading ComprehensionStudents use a variety of reading and writing strategies as they read Rodman Philbrick’s Freak the Mighty.Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIs Superman Really All That Super? Critically Exploring Superheroes
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students generate a list of superheroes from various types of texts. They then explore individual...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGraphing Plot and Character in a Novel
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, United States HistoryIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students graphically illustrate events in the plot of the story, "The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLift Every Voice and Sing
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Literature, History-Social Science, Music, English-Language Arts and 2 additional..This lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, explores the origins of "The Black National Anthem," which was originally a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEdward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: A Little Nonsense
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students learn about nonsense poetry as well as the various poetic techniques and devices that ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFiction, Setting the Story
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students explore how to use the elements of fiction to enhance and devel...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFigurative Language Awards Ceremony
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students use their background knowledge of figurative language. They listen to texts read a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLiterature Circles with Primary Students Using Self-Selected Reading
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesThis lesson from ReadWriteThink is a structured guideline for helping students learn to think about the books they read, and to ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0