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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkwww.me.com
Grades: 4 to 8Subjects: Principles of Design, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts & Performing 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 / HyperLinkWordle
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Technology, English Language Development, History-Social ScienceThis 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
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCulture Shock
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Geography, History-Social ScienceThis Xpeditions lesson asks students to think about how cultural customs differ throughout the world. Students research a foreig...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCooking up Descriptive Language: Designing Restaurant Menus
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Grammar, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore the genre of menus by analyzing existing menus from local restaurants. They revi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhole Lotta' Lava: Creating Volcanology Reports Modeled After Meteorological News Segments
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Career & Technical Ed, Science, Reading Comprehension, Arts, Media, & Entertainment and 4 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students learn about the most recent research in the field of volcanol...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Boston Tea Party: Costume Optional?
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis lesson, from EDSITEment, contains three activities for students to study the events of the Boston Tea Party of 1776 and ref...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkYou’re the Director!
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, TheatreBuild 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 / HyperLinkMemories Matter: "The Giver" and Descriptive Writing Memoirs
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students combine reading with descriptive writing. Students read "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDiscovering Memory: Li-Young Lee's Poem "Mnemonic" and the Brain
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Science, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Life Sciences and 2 additional..In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students first write about memory. They then use Web resources to learn how memory works and appl...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGuided Comprehension in Action: Teaching Summarizing With the Bio-Cube
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students learn about how biographies are constructed using the Guided Comprehension model develop...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriteDesign Online: Graphic Organizers
Grades: 1 to 8Subjects: Literary Analysis, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis 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 / HyperLinkCreative Communication Frames: Discovering Similarities Between Writing and Art
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students build a comparative frame to explore the creative processes of writing and art as c...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWilliam Carlos Williams
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Literature, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the style of American writer William Carlos Williams. A classroom activity is featured i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMarian Anderson Is Denied Permission to Sing at Constitution Hall
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Music and 3 additional..This ReadWriteThink resource focuses on Eleanor Roosevelt's protest over African American singer Marian Anderson being banned fr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Free Verse in the "Voice" of Cesar Chavez
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, United States History, History-Social ScienceIn 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 / HyperLinkA Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: From Image to Detailed Narrative
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students think critically about their interpretations of the events in an image and write about t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting with Writers: Writing a Book Review
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, 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 / HyperLinkBook Reviews, Annotation, and Web Technology
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Technology, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students write a group book review, taking notes in their journals throughout the reading a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCosmic Oranges: Observation and Inquiry Through Descriptive Writing and Art
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, employs scientific observation, descriptive writing, sketching, reading, investigation, and po...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBoys Read: Considering Courage in Novels
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Literature, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students read novels with strong male protagonists in order to examine the notion of courage and ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0