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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLet's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for English-Language Learners
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Vocabulary & Spelling, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis lesson from ReadWriteThink can be adapted for Spanish-speaking second graders learning English. Using a bilingual picture b...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkInstant Poetry Forms
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis page, from the Educational Technology Training Center (ETTC), offers a collection of forms for creating dozens different ty...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGo West: Imagining the Oregon Trail
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, Geography, United States History, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson from EDSITEment, students compare imagined travel experiences of their own with the actual experiences of 19th-ce...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShadows
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Science, Earth & Space Science, Literature, English-Language ArtsIn this Science NetLinks lesson, one of a four-part series on the sky, students explore making shadows. They also track the move...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIt Came from Greek Mythology
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, Visual Arts, Literature, History-Social Science, English-Language ArtsIn this unit of six lessons, from EDSITEment, students study basic plots of three Greek myths and discuss three common themes in...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkEdward Lear, Limericks, and Nonsense: A Little Nonsense
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, Literature, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students learn about nonsense poetry as well as the various poetic techniques and devices that ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language ArtsIn this series of lessons, from EDSITEment, students learn about the 19th-century author Hans Christian Andersen, who created vi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCinderella Folk Tales: Variations in Character
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, History-Social Science, Geography, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students compare and contrast several versions of Cinderella stories told around the world to f...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSeasonal Haiku: Writing Poems to Celebrate Any Season
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Visual Arts, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students listen to a sample of haiku read aloud. Then, using seasonal descriptive words, the...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkReading and Writing Workshop: "Freak The Mighty"
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Vocabulary & Spelling, Reading Comprehension, Literature, English-Language ArtsThis lesson plan, from ReadWriteThink, is a novel study of "Freak the Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick. The lesson includes the model...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkComposing Cinquain Poems with Basic Parts of Speech
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students learn about cinquain and write simple cinquain of their own. Cinquain (pronounced "...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLiterature Circles with Primary Students Using Self-Selected Reading
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Literature, English-Language ArtsThis lesson from ReadWriteThink is a structured guideline for helping students learn to think about the books they read, and to ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBe a Reading Detective: Finding Similarities and Differences in Ideas
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, focuses on the strategy of compare and contrast in nonfiction writing. Students use graphic or...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLetter Poems Deliver: Experimenting with Line Breaks in Poetry Writing
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink lesson uses letter poems to make poetry accessible, meaningful, and fun for children. Letter poems are also ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentFigurative Language Resource Page
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, offers examples of and definitions for several types of figurative lang...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0- Resource Type: Document
Compare and Contrast
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, provides space for students to describe the characters, setting, plot a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0 
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAlaska Native Stories: Using Narrative to Introduce Expository Text
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, uses traditional stories (i.e., narrative text) of native peoples of the northwest to introduc...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFigurative Language Awards Ceremony
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students use their background knowledge of figurative language. They listen to texts read a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0- Resource Type: Document
Figurative Language
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, provides definitions of several types of figurative language, including...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0 - Resource Type: Document
Riddle Poem Features
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, defines figurative language terms, rhetorical devices and poetic sound ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0