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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCompleting the Circle: The Craft of Circular Plot Structure
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Writing Strategies, Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students explore the organizing structure and writer's craft of picture books. They then id...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring Sets through Math-Related Book Pairs
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Mathematics, Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Number SenseThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, integrates reading, writing, viewing, and visually representing mathematical ideas while simul...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: Website / HyperLinkThe Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden
Grades: TK/K to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on Beverly Cleary, author of award-winning children's books including "Dear Mr. Henshaw" an...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLet's Build a Snowman
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Life Sciences, Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Science, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, suggests building a snowman as one way to provide food for birds and animals during the winter...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Connection Between Poetry and Music
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Music, Reading ComprehensionIn 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 / HyperLinkPacking the Pilgrim's Trunk: Personalizing History in the Elementary Classroom
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, United States History, History-Social Science, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students investigate the Pilgrims--who they were and why they came to America. Through a se...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Journal for Corduroy: Responding to Literature
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis 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 / HyperLinkPatricia Polacco
Grades: TK/K to 5Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on Patricia Polacco, author of stories that reflect her childhood, her struggles and triump...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Workshop: Helping Writers Choose and Focus on a Topic
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis 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: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students use factual information gathered from the Internet as the basis for creating a nonfictio...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentLessons in Courage
Grades: 1Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, 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 / HyperLinkDraw a Story: Stepping from Pictures to Writing
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Writing Strategies, Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn 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 / HyperLinkPacking the Pilgrim’s Trunk: Personalizing History in the Elementary Classroom
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, 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 / HyperLinkAcrostic Poems: All About Me and My Favorite Things
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students are introduced to acrostic poetry. They create poems using their names as a starting poi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Web-Based Bookmarks to Conduct Internet Research
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, TechnologyIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students listen and respond to a read-aloud of "The Important Book," by Margaret Wise Brown, and ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDr. King's Dream
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Visual Arts, United States History, English-Language 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
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 / HyperLinkCollaborative Stories 1: Prewriting and Drafting
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students engage in prewriting activities that include writing the beginning of a story and b...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMultipurpose Poetry: Introducing Science Concepts and Increasing Fluency
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Science, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, introduces the study of insects in science by using poetry. Students work in cooperative group...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0