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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkImagery in Poetry PowerPoint Presentation
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis resource, from Mrs. Arthrell, English teacher at the Woodland Hills High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, offers a Power...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkInstant Poetry Forms
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, 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 / HyperLinkFinding Figurative Language in <i>The Phantom Tollbooth</i>
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Vocabulary & Spelling, Reading Comprehension, Grammar, English-Language ArtsStudents examine figurative language in The Phantom Tollbooth and create a chart representing the literal and figurative meaning...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"Leap, plashless": Emily Dickinson and Poetic Imagination
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, Life Sciences, Visual Arts, Writing Strategies and 2 additional..In this lesson, from EDSITEment, students read and explore one of Emily Dickinson's nature poems, "A Bird came down the Walk--" ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDickens for Dummies: Notes on "A Christmas Carol"
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Literary Analysis, English-Language ArtsThis Web site, from Dickens Made Simple.com (formerly Dickens for Dummies ), is a study guide for Charles Dickens A Christmas...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBook Report Alternative: Examining Story Elements Using Story Map Comic Strips
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students use a six-paneled comic strip to create a story map, summarizing a book or story t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNarrative Script Formatting
Grades: 10 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.The main focus of this lesson is the technical formatting of the written script. Students will learn about the five elements of ...Contributor: CTE OnlineViews: 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 / HyperLinkRudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi": Mixing Fact and Fiction
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, students identify key events in Rudyard Kipling's life and describe th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPourquoi Stories: Creating Tales to Tell Why
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, Literary Analysis, English-Language ArtsWhere did the stars come from? What makes lightning and thunder? Pourquoi tales are narratives developed by various cultures aro...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat's In a Mystery? Exploring and Identifying Mystery Elements
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink lesson teaches students about plot structure, character, and setting. Students identify the characteristics ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDancing Minds and Shouting Smiles: Teaching Personification Through Poetry
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Grammar, Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students learn about personification by reading and discussing poems by Emily Dickinson, William ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAs Slippery as an Eel: An Ocean Unit Exploring Simile and Metaphor
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, Science, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students explore simile and metaphor in fiction and nonfiction ocean books. Using the figur...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkColor Poems
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis resource, from Mrs. Van de Graaf s Third Grade, Orchard School in South Burlington, Vermont, offers a collection of student...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"Cap o'Rushes" Lesson Plan
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: Theatre, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Literary Analysis, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from the University of Calgary, students will read and/or listen to the English folk tale Cap o Rushes, and p...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 / HyperLinkReading and Writing Workshop: "Freak The Mighty"
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary & Spelling, 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 / HyperLinkBook Report Alternative: Writing Resumes for Characters in Historical Fiction
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students select a character from a work of historical fiction and then help the character c...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkComposing Cinquain Poems with Basic Parts of Speech
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, 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 / HyperLinkLinks to Other Forms of Poetry and Elements of Poetry
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis printable teacher resource accompanies the ReadWriteThink lesson titled "Color Poems-Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewrit...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0