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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShadows
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Literature, Earth & Space Science, Science, 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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: Website / HyperLinkElements of Myths
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Literature, Visual Arts, Theatre, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students read and explore several myths, identifying the elements of thi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLiving the Dream: 100 Acts of Kindness
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: History-Social Science, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, United States HistoryIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students study about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and what he believed in; then, they apply ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBlending Fiction and Nonfiction to Improve Comprehension and Writing Skills
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, supports the use of a text set (paired fiction and nonfiction texts on a similar topic) to inc...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentGenre Characteristics
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, presents a list of five literary genres and details some of the element...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDestination: Japan
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Visual Arts, Geography, English-Language Arts and 2 additional..This ARTSEDGE Spotlight on Japan celebrates the 150th anniversary of friendship between the U.S. and Japan, as marked by the sig...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDancing through Poetry
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Visual Arts, Dance, English-Language ArtsIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students look at poetry as a way to express the art of dance metaphorically. Students read two differen...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCompiling Poetry Collections and a Working Definition of Poetry
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Literature, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink lesson introduces poetry forms and craft elements while students explore poetry about everyday topics or the...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
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPoet Yusef Komunyakaa
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Literature, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the Vietnam War-inspired poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa. A classroom activity is featured in...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCreating Classroom Community by Crafting Themed Poetry Collections
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Literature, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students create poetry collections with a back-to-school theme of "getting to know each oth...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 / HyperLink"Leap, plashless": Emily Dickinson and Poetic Imagination
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, Literature, Science, Visual Arts 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 / HyperLinkThe Connection Between Poetry and Music
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, Reading Comprehension, Visual Arts, Music, English-Language 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