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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkExpository Escapade-Detective's Handbook
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Vocabulary & Spelling, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students combine reading in the detective fiction genre with expository writing. Embedded in...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 / HyperLinkCreating a Classroom Newspaper
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students write authentic newspaper stories. Various aspects of newspapers are covered, incl...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTeaching the Compare and Contrast Essay through Modeling
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, 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: Literature, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, 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 / HyperLinkImagine That! Playing with Genre through Newspapers and Short Stories
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, uses narrative structures to introduce students to one form of expository writing--news briefs...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMemories Matter: <em>The Giver</em> and Descriptive Writing Memoirs
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Reading ComprehensionUsing 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, Vocabulary & Spelling, Grammar, Literary Analysis, Reading ComprehensionStudents 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 / HyperLinkIt's Halloween!
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies, Literary Analysis, Reading ComprehensionStudents 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, Literary Analysis, Reading ComprehensionStudents 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