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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting ABC Books to Enhance Reading Comprehension
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, after reading a piece of literature, students explore the text, searching for literary elem...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWartime Poetry: Working with Similes
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Visual Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students analyze a photograph and brainstorm words to describe the characters' senses and f...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUnwinding a Circular Plot: Prediction Strategies in Reading and Writing
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis 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 / HyperLinkTypes of Point of View
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language ArtsThis 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Big Bad Wolf: Analyzing Point of View in Texts
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching Point of View with "Two Bad Ants"
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn 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
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPourquoi Stories: Creating Tales to Tell Why
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesWhere 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 / HyperLinkOnce Upon a Time Rethought: Writing Fractured Fairy Tales
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students work together to craft a list of common fairy tale elements. They then explore and analy...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLeading to Great Places in the Elementary Classroom
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students examine examples of leads in children's literature such as setting, action, character, r...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFiction, Setting the Story
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Visual Arts, Literature, English-Language ArtsIn 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFairy Tales, Then and Now
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Geography, History-Social ScienceIn this Xpeditions lesson, students read an old fairy tale or story and list the geographical features and characters described ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExploring Point of View
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language ArtsThis Web page, found on the Annenberg Media Learner.org Web site, highlights the importance of considering point of view when re...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExamining Plot Conflict through a Comparison/Contrast Essay
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students identify the characteristics of conflict using picture books. They complete graphi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkElements 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkComics in the Classroom as an Introduction to Narrative Structure
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCollecting 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCinderella Folk Tales: Variations in Plot and Setting
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Geography, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students compare and contrast several versions of Cinderella stories told around the world to f...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAlter Egos and More with Avi’s <em>"Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?"</em>
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Theatre, English-Language Arts, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, Writing StrategiesAfter 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