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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting and Assessing an Autobiographical Incident
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students build upon their knowledge of biographies to write their own autobiographical incid...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWord Play: Examining the Writing Process Through Autobiography
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students define the steps of the formal writing process and analyze ex...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat's the Story?: Learning About One Event Through Different Journalistic Styles
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Career & Technical Ed, Reading Comprehension, Arts, Media, & Entertainment, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students explore how the same news story can be presented differently ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWashington Square
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading ComprehensionThis Big Read Teacher’s Guide contains ten lessons to lead you through Henry James’s classic novel, Washington Square. Each less...Contributor: The Big Read Literature SeriesViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkValentine's Day
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesThis 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 / HyperLinkUsing the Four-square Strategy to Define and Identify Poetic Terms
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis 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 / HyperLinkUsing Technology to Analyze and Illustrate Symbolism in "Night"
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Technology and 2 additional..In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students explore the use of symbolism in Elie Wiesel's autobiographical novel "Night." After lear...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Technology to Analyze and Illustrate Symbolism in <i>Night</i>
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Literary Analysis, Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, World History, English-Language ArtsImages have power—they can trigger memories or symbolize abstract ideas. Students put the power of images to the test as they an...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Picture Books to Teach Plot Development and Conflict Resolution
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students examine the craft of developing a story's plot and resolution of a story's conflic...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkUsing Picture Books to Explore Identity, Stereotyping, and Discrimination
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis, Psychology and 2 additional..Students analyze the concepts of identity, stereotyping, and discrimination by reading picture books; identify how these concept...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTypes of Point of View
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literary AnalysisThis 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 / HyperLinkTraveling the Road to Freedom Through Research and Historical Fiction
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, United States History and 2 additional..In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students read historical fiction to gain an understanding of an important period in American hist...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTo the Beat of a Different Drum: Describing World Music and Understanding Its Cultural Significance
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Career & Technical Ed, Reading Comprehension, Music, Arts, Media, & Entertainment and 4 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students examine the language used in music reviews to describe world ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTo Kill a Mockingbird
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading ComprehensionThis Big Read Teacher’s Guide contains ten lessons to lead you through Harper Lee’s classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Each l...Contributor: The Big Read Literature SeriesViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThinking Inductively: A Close Reading of Seamus Heaney's "Blackberry Picking"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students analyze the poem "Blackberry Picking" by Seamus Heaney by listing examples of imagery, d...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThinking Inductively: A Close Reading of Seamus Heaney’s “Blackberry Picking”
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Literary AnalysisThis lesson eases students’ fear of interpreting complex poetry by teaching them a strategy with which they determine patterns o...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTheir Eyes Were Watching God
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading ComprehensionThis Big Read Teacher’s Guide contains ten lessons to lead you through Zora Neale Hurston’s classic novel, Their Eyes Were Watch...Contributor: The Big Read Literature SeriesViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Things They Carried
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading ComprehensionThis Big Read Teacher's guide contains ten lessons to lead you through Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried. Each lesson has fo...Contributor: The Big Read Literature SeriesViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Tell-Tale Hearts of Writers: Exploring the Lives of Authors Through Their Literature
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Literary Analysis, Reading Comprehension, Grammar, English-Language Arts, Vocabulary & SpellingIn this lesson, students use a piece of literature by and an article about Edgar Allan Poe to investigate the relationship betwe...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading ComprehensionThis Big Read Teacher’s Guide contains ten lessons to lead you through an introduction to the poetry and short stories of Edgar ...Contributor: The Big Read Literature SeriesViews: 0Favorites: 0