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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Character Life Box
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Visual Arts, Literature, Theatre, English-Language 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 / HyperLinkWho I Am Poems
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from the Multicultural Pavilion, students write a poem called Who I Am. The only rule for the piece is that ea...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCounting Crows
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Visual Arts, Literature, Theatre, Mathematics, English-Language 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 / HyperLinkTeaching About Story Structure Using Fairy Tales
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Literature, English-Language ArtsIn 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 / HyperLinkIs the Price Right? (Part II)
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: No subjects selected.This two-part lesson provides pricing strategy terminology and examples. Lesson activities encourage students to think about pr...Contributor: CTE OnlineViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkProtecting Our Precious Planet: Sharing the Message of Earth Day
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Ecology & Ecosystems, Reading Comprehension, Visual Arts, Science, English-Language 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 / HyperLinkPlay with Words: Rhyme & Verse
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, United States HistoryIn 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 / HyperLinkMasks and Aesop's Fables
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Visual Arts, Literature, Theatre, English-Language 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 / HyperLinkEngaging Students in Read-Alouds Using Fractured Texas Tales
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Literature, English-Language ArtsThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, involves read-alouds of traditional fairy tales and their Wild West counterparts to engage stu...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBasic Reading of Sound Words-Onomatopoeia
Grades: TK/K to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis page, from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, examines the role of Onomatopoeia in reading, writing and speaking. Also ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBack in the Olden Days
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: World History, Geography, History-Social Science, United States 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 / HyperLinkFairy Tales Around the World
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Literature, History-Social Science, English-Language ArtsIn 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 / HyperLinkThe Connection Between Poetry and Music
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Music, Visual Arts, Writing Strategies, English-Language 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 / HyperLinkFirst Grade Lesson 1: Children of Indian Folklore
Grades: 1Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, Literary Analysis, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from the Educator s Reference Desk, students explore legends and engage in creative-writing activities based on ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students "mine" texts for favorite words from favorite stories. Working together, students select...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMy Piece of History
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, United States HistoryIn 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 / HyperLinkA Journal for Corduroy: Responding to Literature
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Literature, English-Language ArtsThis 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 / HyperLinkComparing Tales through Performance
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Visual Arts, Theatre, English-Language 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 / 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 / HyperLinkCornerstones Literacy Units
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis resource, found on the PBS Kids Between the Lions Web site, provides information and resources for the Cornerstones liter...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0