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Fact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using <i>Diary of a Worm</i>
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Life Sciences, ScienceStudents often believe that fiction writers make everything up, seldom realizing how research worms its way into entertaining wr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Shapes Art
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Mathematics, LiteratureIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students participate in activities in which they focus on connectio...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Toy Shop Numbers
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Mathematics, Number Sense, Vocabulary & SpellingIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students participate in activities in which they focus on the role ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Weekend News! A Weekly Writing Activity
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesOn Monday mornings, you’re likely to be asked, “What did you do this weekend?” In this lesson, students respond to this question...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Watching a Garden Grow
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Science, Writing StrategiesIn this activity from ReadWriteThink, children plan, plant, and observe a garden. They keep a garden journal with questions and ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Using Children’s Natural Curiosity to Lead to Descriptive Writing
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesInspired by the book It Begins with an A, kindergarten students are invited to turn their curiosity and guesswork into a class b...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Pattern Writing: Combining Words Into Structured Ideas
Grades: 1 to 3Subjects: Professional Development, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, GrammarThe YouthLearn Initiative at the EDC (Education Development Center) presents this selection of ideas and activities for teaching...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Poetry Using the 5Ws
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesThis student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, offers a model for writing a non-rhyming poem using the 5Ws (who, what,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Tech-it and Take-it: Let's Make Books
Grades: TK/K to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Literary Analysis, Writing StrategiesThis page, from Vicki Blackwell s Internet Guide for Educators, features links to Powerpoint files of procedures for making a ra...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
