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Zines for Kids: Multigenre Texts About Media Icons
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students create multigenre "zines," or fan magazines, that focus on prominent figures from popula...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Writing ABC Books to Enhance Reading Comprehension
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, after reading a piece of literature, students explore the text, searching for literary elem...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Write Letters That Make Things Happen!
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, World History, Reading Comprehension and 2 additional..This ReadWriteThink resource focuses on the letter that U.S. schoolgirl Samantha Smith wrote to Russian premier Yuri Andropov in...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Word Art with King's Words
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 4Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis, Reading Comprehension, United States History, History-Social ScienceExamine one or more of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s letters or speeches and turn powerful words and phrases into word art using ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0What Is a Surrey?
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Music, Reading Comprehension and 2 additional..This ARTSEDGE lesson explores the magic of the vocabulary used by Oscar Hammerstein in his lyrics. Students "translate" the lyri...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Wartime Poetry: Working with Similes
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students analyze a photograph and brainstorm words to describe the characters' senses and f...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Voting! What's It All About?
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students both listen to information read aloud from a variety of sources and read from fict...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Using Web-Based Bookmarks to Conduct Internet Research
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Writing Strategies, Technology, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students listen and respond to a read-aloud of "The Important Book," by Margaret Wise Brown, and ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Using the Thesaurus
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Grammar, Vocabulary & Spelling, Reading ComprehensionThis reproducible, from the Assistive Technology Training Online Project (ATTO) at the University at Buffalo, provides step-by-s...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Using Picture Books to Teach Setting Development in Writing Workshop
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students examine the craft of developing the setting of a story through focused experiences...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Unwinding a Circular Plot: Prediction Strategies in Reading and Writing
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, builds on students' existing knowledge of plot structure and of cycles in other content areas,...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Unforgettable...: Writing About Memorable Experiences
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students recall their most memorable experiences. They then weave thei...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Types of Point of View
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literary AnalysisThis Web page, found on the Annenberg Media Learner.org Web site, describes the different types of point of view used by authors...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Two Thumbs Up! Get Students Writing and Publishing Book Reviews
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Writing Strategies, Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students evaluate book reviews written by other children. Next, they discuss the effectiveness of...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0The Magic Touch: Exploring Augmented Reality as a Teaching Tool
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Technology, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, found on the New York Times Learning Network, students learn about the educational applications for new Magic Bo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0The Big Bad Wolf: Analyzing Point of View in Texts
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionWas the Big Bad Wolf really all that bad? This lesson encourages students to analyze multiple viewpoints, view texts from differ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0The 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: 0Technical Reading and Writing Using Board Games
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students work in small groups over a period of 1-2 days to create board games that review e...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Teaching the Compare and Contrast Essay through Modeling
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students and teacher together create the first half of a draft of a comparison and contrast...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Teaching Point of View with "Two Bad Ants"
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students use the illustrations and text in Chris Van Allsburg's "Two Bad Ants" to develop an unde...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0