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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMemories Matter: <em>The Giver</em> and Descriptive Writing Memoirs
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesUsing The Giver, students discuss the importance recorded history. This provides context for descriptive writing of students’ ow...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExpository Escapade?Detective’s Handbook
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Grammar, Literary Analysis, Vocabulary & SpellingStudents create a Detective's Handbook based on a detective mystery they have read. The handbooks include expository and descrip...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentUsing the Thesaurus
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Grammar, Vocabulary & SpellingThis reproducible, from the Assistive Technology Training Online Project (ATTO) at the University at Buffalo, provides step-by-s...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOnline Thesaurus
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Grammar, Vocabulary & SpellingThis online thesaurus is provided by the Lexico Publishing Group. From this page users can also access an online dictionary as ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDictionary.com
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Grammar, Vocabulary & SpellingDictionary.com is an online dictionary. Users can look up words, as well as access word games, foreign language dictionaries, a ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIt's Halloween!
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesStudents research information on Halloween, create masks or costumes from a text they are reading, or write a narrative essay de...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHans Christian Andersen was born on this date in 1805.
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Literary AnalysisStudents write a brief summary of one of Andersen's stories, and then read the original story and compare the two versions of t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOnce Upon a Time: Writing Stories about Reading
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, found on the New York Times Learning Network, students first take an inventory of their own histories as readers...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMerriam-Webster Online
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Grammar, Vocabulary & SpellingMerriam-Webster Online offers access to an online dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedia. There is also a special kids section....Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLearning on the Web: A Content Literacy Perspective
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Professional Development, Reading ComprehensionThis article, from the International Reading Association, discusses how new web technologies can be applied to assist readers in...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentWord 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHelp a Child Edit and Revise
Grades: TK/K to 3Subjects: No subjects selected.Help children make the most of their writing by teaching them about revising and editing, two important parts of the writing pro...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 / HyperLinkNew Takes on Old Tales
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Geography, History-Social ScienceIn this Xpeditions student activity, students revamp a classic fairy tale so that it takes place in today's world. They base the...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkReference Shelf: Classroom Internet Integration
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from EDSITEment, offers information to help educators integrate the Internet as a standard classroom resource. Li...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShadows
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, Science, Earth & Space ScienceIn 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 / HyperLinkFairy Tales, Then and Now
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, 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 / HyperLinkExpository Escapade-Detective's Handbook
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Literature, Vocabulary & SpellingIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students combine reading in the detective fiction genre with expository writing. Embedded in...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Picture Books to Teach Setting Development in Writing Workshop
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students examine the craft of developing the setting of a story through focused experiences...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGuided Comprehension: Summarizing Using the QuIP Strategy
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionBased on the Guided Comprehension Model developed by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson introduces students to ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0