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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIntroducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, and Internet Research
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Visual ArtsIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students read, write, speak, listen, and research as they interview a partner and write an a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTechnology and Copyright Law: A "Futurespective"
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, TechnologyIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students review some copyright disputes involving new technologies. They then write newspaper art...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShe Did What? Revising for Connotation
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students examine the simple sentence, "She walked into the room." Students act out ways that...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAt Home in the Heartland Online: Grades, Subjects and Activities
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis, Geography, History-Social Science and 2 additional..At Home in the Heartland has been written for grades 3 to 12. Text and activities are grade specific and have been organized by...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWomen and Sports
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson plan, from Discovery School, intermediate students develop reading, writing, and verbal skills as they research t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPocahontas Marries John Rolfe
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the facts and fiction surrounding the legend of Pocahontas. A classroom activity is feat...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEmpowered Fiction Writers: Generating and Organizing Ideas for Story Writing
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink lesson introduces students to the use of speedwriting (also called free writing) as a prewriting technique. ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTravel Brochures: Highlighting the Setting of a Story
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson students create a travel brochure for a location in a text that they have read. Students think abo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDigital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Visual ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore both facts and feelings about a topic, and make self-text-world connections as t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Guides
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis page, from Colorado State University, provides extensive material for writers. Included are writing guides on reading, the ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBibbidi Bobbidi Tunes
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Visual Arts, MusicThis ARTSEDGE lesson explores the contrasting styles of the song "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" from the Disney movie "Cinderella" and a ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Folktales
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Visual ArtsIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students explore the common elements of folktales and tall tales, while learning how these tales built ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPaul Fleischman
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on novelist and poet Paul Fleischman. A classroom activity is featured in which students wr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCharacter Study: Creating Collages Reflecting Desirable Qualities in a Political Leader
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Career & Technical Ed, Writing Strategies, History-Social Science and 2 additional..In this lesson, found on the New York Times Learning Network, students consider and create collages about the values and morals ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPersuasive Essay: Environmental Issues
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore environmental issues that are relevant to their own lives, self-select topics, a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCopyright Law: From Digital Reprints to Downloads
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students read about the history of copyright law and generalize about how and why it has changed....Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWorld Poetry Day
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on poetry and the celebration of "World Poetry Day" each March 21st. A classroom activity i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching Voice with Anthony Browne's "Voices in the Park"
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink lesson focuses on the concept of voice, which is often difficult for middle school students to incorporate i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWrite Letters to Friends and Family
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesThis activity from ReadWriteThink invites children to write letters to classmates, postcards from travels, or e-mails to family ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHeroes Around Us
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, HumanitiesIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students explore the distinction between a hero and an idol. Students select, read about, a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0