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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPoems That Tell a Story: Narrative and Persona in the Poetry of Robert Frost
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, LiteratureIn this four-lesson unit, from EDSITEment, students read, discuss, and analyze selected poems by Robert Frost. The activities th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCinderella Folk Tales: Variations in Character
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Geography, LiteratureIn 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 / HyperLinkMemories Matter: "The Giver" and Descriptive Writing Memoirs
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students combine reading with descriptive writing. Students read "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFairy Tale Autobiographies
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students work together in small groups to read, discuss and analyze fairy tales. After compiling ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting and Assessing an Autobiographical Incident
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students build upon their knowledge of biographies to write their own autobiographical incid...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkStory Character Homepage
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, helps students develop a thorough understanding of character. In groups, students look at exam...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMyth and Truth: "The First Thanksgiving"
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, United States History, Reading ComprehensionBy exploring myths surrounding the Wampanoag, the Pilgrims, and the "First Thanksgiving," this lesson from ReadWriteThink asks s...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Big, Bad Wolf . . . Is This a Fact?
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Technology, Vocabulary & Spelling, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureThis ReadWriteThink lesson combines the nonfiction works of Seymour Simon with teacher modeling, discussion groups, and student-...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: DocumentAutobiographical Incident Rubric
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis rubric, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, allows students to assess and remodel original autobiographical incidents.Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0- Resource Type: Document
Figurative Language Resource Page
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, offers examples of and definitions for several types of figurative lang...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0 - Resource Type: Document
Figurative Language
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis student reproducible, from a ReadWriteThink lesson, provides definitions of several types of figurative language, including...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0 
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBiography Project: Research and Class Presentation
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students brainstorm about famous people and each selects one to research by reading a biogr...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBeyond the Story: A Dickens of a Party
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, LiteratureIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students are invited to attend a 19th-century party as a character from Charles Dickens' "A...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFiction, 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing the Four-square Strategy to Define and Identify Poetic Terms
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, helps young students better understand poetry. Use of the four-square strategy offers the stud...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAnimal Spirit and Powers (Nahuales)
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Foreign Languages, Visual ArtsThis lesson, from ARTSEDGE, teaches basic elements of poetic verse in Spanish and English (sensory use, imagery, stanza, poetic ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkValentine's Day
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on Valentine's Day, a holiday which arose from a confluence of Christian and pagan themes. ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Story of Epic Proportions: What Makes a Poem an Epic?
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literature, History-Social ScienceThis EDSITEment lesson introduces students to the epic poem form and to its roots in the oral tradition. Students learn about th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkKing Arthur: Man or Legend?
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: World History, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Theatre, Visual ArtsIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students learn about the legend of King Arthur as depicted in stories, poems, and artwork. Students exp...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0- Resource Type: Document
Symbolism in the Legend of King Arthur
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, World History, English-Language Arts, LiteratureThis student reproducible, from an ARTSEDGE lesson, prompts students to examine the symbolism of the Round Table, The Holy Grail...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0