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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGoing on a Shape Hunt: Integrating Math and Literacy
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Mathematics, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students are introduced to shapes through appropriate children's books and many different learnin...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSodbusters!
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students examine photographs of sod houses, build a model sod house, and picture themselves liv...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkProtecting Our Precious Planet: Sharing the Message of Earth Day
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Science, English-Language Arts, Ecology & Ecosystems, Reading Comprehension, Visual ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students participate in the Internet-based Earth Day Groceries Project, in which students from al...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkComposing Cinquain Poems: A Quick-Writing Activity
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students write simple cinquain poetry of their own as a follow-up to a subject they have bee...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShapes 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPowerful Writing: Description in Creating Monster Trading Cards
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students create original names for monsters of their own creation while also stressing the ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWeekend 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Workshop: Helping Writers Choose and Focus on a Topic
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, helps young writers bring greater focus to their writing. Students use a timeline to break a l...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFrom Fact to Fiction: Drawing and Writing Stories
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students use factual information gathered from the Internet as the basis for creating a nonfictio...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCollaborating on a Class Book: Exploring Before-During-After Sequences
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students and the teacher produce a class book through a group-writing activity focusing on a basi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkStories in Quilts
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, Literature, Visual ArtsThis unit of four lessons, from EDSITEment, explores the history and culture of quilt-making. Quilts can be works of art as well...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDraw a Story: Stepping from Pictures to Writing
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Visual ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students draw a series of pictures that tell a simple story that includes character action, probl...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThere's a Nightmare in My Closet
Grades: 1 to 3Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Literary Analysis, Visual ArtsIn this lesson, from the Educator s Reference Desk, students will demonstrate their understanding of concepts illustrated in The...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDescriptive Writing and the 100th Day of School
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Literature, Number Sense and 2 additional..In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students write descriptions of 100th day bottles they create at home. They then write clues about...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPattern Writing: Combining Words Into Structured Ideas
Grades: 1 to 3Subjects: English-Language Arts, Professional Development, Grammar, Reading ComprehensionThe YouthLearn Initiative at the EDC (Education Development Center) presents this selection of ideas and activities for teaching...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentPoetry 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAlphabetizing With Original Stories
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students write original stories using alphabetical order. The entire class can write one story, b...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0