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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkColor of Silence: Sensory Imagery in Pat Mora's Poem "Echoes"
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students go from the concrete to the abstract as they move from using their senses to descr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkViewing Vocabulary: Building Word Knowledge Through Informational Websites
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary & SpellingThis lesson from ReadWriteThink encourages students to thoughtfully read a text to identify important words, discuss those words...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAlphabiography Project: Totally You
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students write alphabiographies--by recording an event, person, object or feeling associated with...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAlliteration in Headline Poems
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students are introduced to the term alliteration. They are given examples of alliteration and ask...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Research Papers: A Step-by-step Procedure
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesThis page, from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL), is part of a large collection of resources on grammar, spelling,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink2003: A Space Tragedy: Examining the Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Career & Technical Ed, United States History, History-Social Science, Arts, Media, & Entertainment and 5 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students examine the facts and logistics connected to the space shuttl...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkProject Planning Management
Grades: 11 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.A gantt chart is a common tool for project planning and keeping track of the status of individual tasks within a project. This...Contributor: CTE OnlineViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Word Webs to Teach Synonyms for Commonly Used Words
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary & SpellingThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, uses word webs as a tool to expose students to synonyms for common words, to help students cho...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink2002: The Year in Review: Looking Back at the Events and Trends That Shaped the Past Year
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Music, English-Language Arts and 3 additional..In this lesson, found on the New York Times Learning Network, students research and create a book highlighting significant event...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBook Report Alternative: Character and Author Business Cards
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students make business cards for characters and authors. As students make the business card...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words: From Image to Detailed Narrative
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesThe old cliche, "A picture is worth a thousand words" is put to the test when students write their own narrative interpretations...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSlipping, Sliding, Tumbling: Reinforcing Cause and Effect Through Diamante Poems
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesThis ReadWriteThink lesson uses diamante poems to illustrate the phenomenon of cause and effect. Students define and identify ca...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Alternative Plots for Robert C. O'Brien's "Z for Zachariah"
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students read the science fiction novel "Z for Zachariah," by Robert C. O'Brien. This book i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink2004 Better and For Worse: A Look Back at the Events That Shaped 2004
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, American Democracy, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students consider some of the significant events that shaped 2004 thro...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCreative Writing Through Wordless Picture Books
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students are exposed to wordless picture books, and they begin developing story lines orall...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAfter the Fact: Evaluating the Findings of the Congressional "9/11 Report"
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, American Democracy and 2 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students investigate summaries of the "9/11 Report" and examine questi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkYou're the Detective
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesThis ThinkQuest resource features a collection of mystery stories for students to read. Some of the stories are story starters,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Change of Scene: Learning About the Renovation of Performing Spaces
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Theatre, Geography, Visual Arts & Performing Arts and 3 additional..In this lesson, found on the New York Times Learning Network, students consider the elements that make a performance space succe...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting a Flashback and Flash-Forward Story Using Movies and Texts as Models
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students are introduced to examples of flashbacks and flash-forwards through the film "The S...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Alternative Plots for Robert C. O’Brien's <em>Z for Zachariah</em>
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesStudents write new endings for the science fiction novel, Z for Zachariah by exploring alternative plotlines created by making d...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0