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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Fix
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, GrammarWritingFix was designed by writers, teachers, and students to be used by writers, teachers, and students of any age. The site of...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWorld Hello Day
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, Humanities, World HistoryThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on "World Hello Day," started in 1973 to promote peace between Egypt and Israel. A classroo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWord Play: Examining the Writing Process Through Autobiography
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students define the steps of the formal writing process and analyze ex...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWho I Am Poems
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn 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 / HyperLinkWhat's In a Mystery? Exploring and Identifying Mystery Elements
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesThis ReadWriteThink lesson teaches students about plot structure, character, and setting. Students identify the characteristics ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkValentine's Day is today!
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Students find examples of figurative language and write an original example of each device, illustrate, and share them with the ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Picture Books to Explore Identity, Stereotyping, and Discrimination
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Electives, Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts and 2 additional..Students analyze the concepts of identity, stereotyping, and discrimination by reading picture books; identify how these concept...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUnwinding a Circular Plot: Prediction Strategies in Reading and Writing
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, builds on students' existing knowledge of plot structure and of cycles in other content areas,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTwo Thumbs Up! Get Students Writing and Publishing Book Reviews
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Literature, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students evaluate book reviews written by other children. Next, they discuss the effectiveness of...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkToday is World Poetry Day.
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis and 2 additional..Students read and respond to Billy Collins' poem "Introduction to Poetry." Students then write about a favorite poem and imagine...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Poetry Archive
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis, Reading ComprehensionThe ReadWriteThink-reviewed Poetry Archive Web site provides an extensive collection of poems, which includes audio files of poe...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Elements of Plot Development
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis, Writing StrategiesThis resource, from Learner.org, discusses elements of plot development, including the exposition, complications, climax and res...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Connection Between Poetry and Music
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Music, Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, 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 / HyperLinkTales of King Arthur
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, Geography, World History, English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn this EDSITEment lesson, students discover how historical events gradually merged with fantasy to create Arthurian legend. The...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSynthesis Poetry
Grades: TK/K to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Professional DevelopmentThis page, from the Journey North Web site, features information about using synthesis poems as a teaching strategy. Students co...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSpin and Share
Grades: TK/K to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Professional DevelopmentThis page, from the Journey North Web site, contains information about using a labeled spinner as an instructional strategy. Eac...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSnapshot Sentences
Grades: 2 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Professional DevelopmentThis page, from the Journey North Web site, contains information on how to use sentences with sensory details as an instructiona...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSharing Poetry with Children
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis resource, from Yale/New Haven Teachers Institute, features information and lesson plans for sharing poetry with children. I...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShadows
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Earth & Space Science, ScienceIn 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 / HyperLinkSeasonal Haiku: Writing Poems to Celebrate Any Season
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, Visual ArtsIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students listen to a sample of haiku read aloud. Then, using seasonal descriptive words, the...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0