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Writing ABC Books to Enhance Reading Comprehension
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, LiteratureIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, after reading a piece of literature, students explore the text, searching for literary elem...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Wartime Poetry: Working with Similes
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, Writing Strategies, Visual ArtsIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students analyze a photograph and brainstorm words to describe the characters' senses and f...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Unwinding a Circular Plot: Prediction Strategies in Reading and Writing
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, builds on students' existing knowledge of plot structure and of cycles in other content areas,...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: 0The Big Bad Wolf: Analyzing Point of View in Texts
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesWas the Big Bad Wolf really all that bad? This lesson encourages students to analyze multiple viewpoints, view texts from differ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Teaching Point of View with "Two Bad Ants"
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students use the illustrations and text in Chris Van Allsburg's "Two Bad Ants" to develop an unde...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Pourquoi Stories: Creating Tales to Tell Why
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, Literary AnalysisWhere did the stars come from? What makes lightning and thunder? Pourquoi tales are narratives developed by various cultures aro...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Once Upon a Time Rethought: Writing Fractured Fairy Tales
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students work together to craft a list of common fairy tale elements. They then explore and analy...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Leading to Great Places in the Elementary Classroom
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, LiteratureIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students examine examples of leads in children's literature such as setting, action, character, r...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Fiction, Setting the Story
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, LiteratureIn this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from ARTSEDGE, students explore how to use the elements of fiction to enhance and devel...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Fairy Tales, Then and Now
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Geography, LiteratureIn this Xpeditions lesson, students read an old fairy tale or story and list the geographical features and characters described ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Exploring Point of View
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literary AnalysisThis Web page, found on the Annenberg Media Learner.org Web site, highlights the importance of considering point of view when re...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Examining Plot Conflict through a Comparison/Contrast Essay
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, LiteratureIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students identify the characteristics of conflict using picture books. They complete graphi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Elements of a Story - PBS Interactives
Grades: 2 to 5Subjects: English-Language ArtsLearn secrets for telling a good story, explore narratives -- heroes, plot and background. Then, write a story of your own.Views: 0Favorites: 0Comics in the Classroom as an Introduction to Narrative Structure
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students examine the plot and narrative structure of a story through the use of comic strip ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Collecting Their Thoughts: Telling Your Story
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Students tell a story from the point of view of someone who lived in a time depicted in a museum exhibition.Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0Cinderella Folk Tales: Variations in Plot and Setting
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Geography, LiteratureIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students compare and contrast several versions of Cinderella stories told around the world to f...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Alter Egos and More with Avi’s <em>"Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?"</em>
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, TheatreAfter reading Avi’s novel "Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?", students create an alter ego for themselves and use it to write th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0