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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkYoung Writers Workshop
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionThe printable story starters on this page from Chateau Meddybemps encourage creativity in children in preschool and primary grad...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWho’s Got Mail? Using Literature to Promote Authentic Letter Writing
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionThis activity uses literature and shared writing to teach letter-writing format and promote authentic letter writing. Students l...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSample Marked-up Collaborative Story
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionThis Web page, from Share2Learn, features several samples of student writing, including a collaborative story on chart paper. Th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentLessons in Courage
Grades: 1Subjects: United States History, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Reading ComprehensionThis instructional unit, from the Denver Public Schools, includes eight lessons dealing with three American civil rights figures...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkChinese Instruments
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Music, Visual Arts & Performing ArtsIn this lesson, from ARTSEDGE, students identify and classify Western instruments and traditional Chinese instruments. Each stud...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCornerstones Literacy Units
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis resource, found on the PBS Kids Between the Lions Web site, provides information and resources for the Cornerstones liter...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkArthur's Letter Writer Helper
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionThis resource, from the PBS Kids Arthur Web site, features simple instructions for letter writing and an opportunity to write,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat’s the Difference? Beginning Writers Compare E-mail with Letter Writing
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: United States History, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, Writing StrategiesStudents compare e-mails to traditional letters, identifying style and intended audience for each. They then write both an e-mai...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBio Poems About Storybook Characters
Grades: 1 to 3Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from EdScope s LessonPlanPage.com, students discuss and then identify character traits and relationships in Jon ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPacking the Pilgrim’s Trunk: Personalizing History in the Elementary Classroom
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Literary Analysis, United States History, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Reading ComprehensionStudents make personal connections between their lives and those of Pilgrim children by following the Pilgrims' move to the New ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEducation Place: Graphic Organizers
Grades: 1 to 8Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis page, from Houghton Mifflin s Education Place, features a collection of reproducible graphic organizers. Teachers can choos...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentCorrecting and Proofreading Checklist
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Vocabulary & Spelling, GrammarThis reproducible student handout, from Teachers.net, provides students with a checklist for proofreading their spelling, punctu...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFrom Printed Page to Multimedia: Evolution of a Second-Grade Class Newspaper
Grades: TK/K to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Professional DevelopmentThis article, from the International Reading Association, discusses a project in which the production of a newspaper was integra...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShape Poems: Using the Five Senses
Grades: 1 to 3Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionStudents write shape poems in a flash using the picture book Flicker Flash by Joan Bransfield Graham and the online, interactive...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHelp a Child Edit and Revise
Grades: TK/K to 3Subjects: No subjects selected.Help children make the most of their writing by teaching them about revising and editing, two important parts of the writing pro...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEvery Picture Tells a Story K-4
Grades: TK/K to 4Subjects: Science, English-Language Arts, Measurement & Geometry, Mathematics and 2 additional..In this activity, from the Burns Telecommunication Center, Montana State University, students discover that what you see is not ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAn Economics and Literature Lesson, Grades 1-3
Grades: 1 to 3Subjects: English-Language Arts, Economics, History-Social ScienceIn this Economic Education Web lesson, students listen to a story that introduces basic economic concepts such as producers, res...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNew Takes on Old Tales
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, GeographyIn this Xpeditions student activity, students revamp a classic fairy tale so that it takes place in today's world. They base the...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTrade and Transportation in the United States
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Economics, History-Social Science, Geography, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from Xpeditions, students imagine what it would be like to operate a plane, train, or truck along a trade route ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDr. King's Dream
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: United States History, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson from EDSITEment, students learn about the life and work of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Students l...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0