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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAuthor Lois Duncan
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on young adult mystery author Lois Duncan. A classroom activity is featured in which studen...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Jaded Culture: Exploring Symbolism of Gems and Metals in Different Cultures
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: World History, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Visual Arts and 2 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students explore symbolic gems and metals of different cultures. Stude...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBeyond the Story: A Dickens of a Party
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Literature, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students are invited to attend a 19th-century party as a character from Charles Dickens' "A...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkStrategic Reading and Writing: Summarizing Antislavery Biographies
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, Literature and 2 additional..In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students practice writing effective summaries using biographies. They first read selections from ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCinderella Folk Tales: Variations in Character
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Literature, GeographyIn 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 / HyperLinkTraveling the Road to Freedom Through Research and Historical Fiction
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, Literature and 2 additional..In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students read historical fiction to gain an understanding of an important period in American hist...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDeveloping Story Structure with Paper-Bag Skits
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, TheatreIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students work in cooperative groups to create semi-impromptu skits using unique props distributed...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMemories Matter: "The Giver" and Descriptive Writing Memoirs
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students combine reading with descriptive writing. Students read "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTypes of Point of View
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language ArtsThis Web page, found on the Annenberg Media Learner.org Web site, describes the different types of point of view used by authors...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkChildhood Through the Looking-Glass
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Literature, Visual Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson from EDSITEment explores the vision of childhood created by Lewis Carroll in "Alice in Wonderland." Students begin b...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMental Imagery in Reading: A Sampler of Some Significant Studies
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Professional DevelopmentThis article, from the International Reading Association, discusses key reading research that examines the effects of mental ima...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkErnest Hemingway
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on novelist Ernest Hemingway, winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. A classroom act...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGuided Comprehension in Action: Teaching Summarizing With the Bio-Cube
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students learn about how biographies are constructed using the Guided Comprehension model develop...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWord Play: Examining the Writing Process Through Autobiography
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn 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 / HyperLinkThinking Inductively: A Close Reading of Seamus Heaney's "Blackberry Picking"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students analyze the poem "Blackberry Picking" by Seamus Heaney by listing examples of imagery, d...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 / HyperLinkRomeo & Juliet: The Story
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Literary Analysis, Philosophy, English-Language Arts, History-Social ScienceThis ARTSEDGE resource presents teachers and students with invaluable contextual information for the study of "Romeo Juliet." ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMind Pictures: Strategies That Enhance Mental Imagery While Reading
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn 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, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionThis 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: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students explore the histories of American patriotic emblems and exami...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0