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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPlay with Words: Rhyme & Verse
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: United States History, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, History-Social ScienceIn this unit of six lessons, from EDSITEment, students use their senses to experience poetry. Students listen to poems and rhyme...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFairy Tales Around the World
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, History-Social ScienceIn this unit of six lessons, from EDSITEment, students become familiar with fairy tales. They read and learn to understand fairy...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Journal for Corduroy: Responding to Literature
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, leads first-grade students to reflect on and respond to literature through journal writing. St...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMy Piece of History
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: United States History, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students examine pictures of household objects from the late 20th century, gather historical in...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBack in the Olden Days
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Geography, World HistoryIn this Xpeditions lesson, students discuss what it might have been like when, and where, their parents and grandparents grew up...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHave Journal...Will Travel: Promoting Family Involvement in Literacy
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, LiteratureThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, is designed to engage families in shared literacy activities. The students take turns taking h...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBook Sorting: Using Observation and Comprehension to Categorize Books
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink sorting activity addresses critical-thinking skills, observation and categorization processes, reading compr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWeather: A Journey in Nonfiction
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Science, Weather, Climate & Atmosphere, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, primary students use nonfiction text, in both print and digital format, to formulate questions an...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Character Life Box
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Theatre, Visual ArtsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students work in pairs to create a "life box" for a character in the pla...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkComparing Tales through Performance
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Theatre, English-Language Arts, Visual ArtsIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students identify the similarities and differences between a traditional and a contemporary version of ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJane Yolen
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on author Jane Yolen, whose love of birds and nature is conveyed in many of her books. A cl...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBlack Poetry Day
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on Black Poetry Day and the contributions of African-Americans to the world of poetry. A cl...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMasks and Aesop's Fables
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Theatre, English-Language Arts, Literature, Visual ArtsThis ARTSEDGE lesson is based on a study of Aesop's Fables. Although Aesop's fables are over 2,600 years old, the stories--and t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Connection Between Poetry and Music
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Music, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, Visual ArtsIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students listen to poems read aloud and discuss the rhythm and sound of poetry. Students th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students "mine" texts for favorite words from favorite stories. Working together, students select...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
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching About Story Structure Using Fairy Tales
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore the concepts of beginning, middle, and end by reading a variety of stories and t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCounting Crows
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Theatre, English-Language Arts, Mathematics, Literature, Visual ArtsThis ARTSEDGE lesson blends math and art with literature using Aesop's fable "The Crow and the Pitcher." The class discusses the...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkReading Informational Texts Using the 3-2-1 Strategy
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students learn to use the 3-2-1 strategy, which involves writing about three things they discover...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFive Easy Drama Games for the Early Elementary Classroom
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: Theatre, English-Language Arts, Vocabulary & Spelling, Visual ArtsIn this ARTSEDGE "How-To" feature, learn how to foster creativity in the classroom, even if you lack the space or resources for ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0