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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkLet's Get Cooking With Words! Creating a Recipe Using Procedural Writing
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Grammar, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students participate in read alouds of selected children's books that exemplify effective word ch...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkOnce Upon a Time: Writing Stories about Reading
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn 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 / HyperLinkCreating a Classroom Newspaper
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students write authentic newspaper stories. Various aspects of newspapers are covered, incl...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
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExamining Plot Conflict through a Comparison/Contrast Essay
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students identify the characteristics of conflict using picture books. They complete graphi...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing 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: 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 / HyperLinkEveryone Loves a Mystery: A Genre Study
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students examine story elements and vocabulary associated with mystery stories. Students co...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShadows
Grades: TK/K to 2Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, 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 / HyperLinkExpository Escapade-Detective's Handbook
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, 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 / HyperLinkMary Hoffman
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on Mary Hoffman, author of the Amazing Grace series of books. A classroom activity is featu...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNew Takes on Old Tales
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, GeographyIn 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 / HyperLinkLeading to Great Places in the Elementary Classroom
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn 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 / HyperLinkExpository Escapade?Detective’s Handbook
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Grammar, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, 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: Website / HyperLinkOnce Upon a Time Rethought: Writing Fractured Fairy Tales
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn 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 / HyperLinkFairy Tales, Then and Now
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, GeographyIn 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 / 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 / HyperLinkTeaching 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDemonstrating Comprehension Through Journal Writing
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students demonstrate comprehension by responding to open-ended questions based on the 1939 ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMemories Matter: <em>The Giver</em> and Descriptive Writing Memoirs
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionUsing The Giver, students discuss the importance recorded history. This provides context for descriptive writing of students’ ow...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0