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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBook Report Alternative: Writing Resumes for Characters in Historical Fiction
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students select a character from a work of historical fiction and then help the character c...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExamining Plot Conflict through a Comparison/Contrast Essay
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students identify the characteristics of conflict using picture books. They complete graphi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAlaska Native Stories: Using Narrative to Introduce Expository Text
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis 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 / HyperLinkGo West: Imagining the Oregon Trail
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: History-Social Science, Geography, United States History, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsIn 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 / HyperLinkLook in the Mythic Mirror
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Visual Arts, Music, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis 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: Literature, History-Social Science, Geography, English-Language ArtsIn 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 / HyperLinkFree Graphic Organizers
Grades: 1 to 8Subjects: Graphic organizers, English-Language Arts, 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 / HyperLinkIs Superman Really All That Super? Critically Exploring Superheroes
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn 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 / HyperLinkHans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language ArtsIn this series of lessons, from EDSITEment, students learn about the 19th-century author Hans Christian Andersen, who created vi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEdward Stratemeyer, creator of book series such as Nancy Drew, was born on this day in 1862.
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Literary AnalysisStudents select several books from one of Stratemeyer's series to read, discuss shared elements in the books, and use the 3-Circ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHistorical Fiction: Using Literature to Learn About the Civil War
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, United States History, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students use a book from "The American Girls" series to learn about the characteristics of histor...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentCompare and Contrast
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, provides space for students to describe the characters, setting, plot a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCharacter Traits Chart
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this student interactive, from ReadWriteThink, students record information about a fictional character's actions and then lis...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkElements of Myths
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Visual Arts, Literature, English-Language Arts, TheatreIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students read and explore several myths, identifying the elements of thi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFiction, Plotting the Story
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Visual Arts, Literature, English-Language Arts, TheatreIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students explore plot as an element of fiction. They investigate how det...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPress Conference for "Bud, Not Buddy"
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, can be used after the reading of "Bud, Not Buddy," by Christopher Paul Curtis to encourage stu...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0