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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMemories Matter: "The Giver" and Descriptive Writing Memoirs
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: History-Social Science, Writing Strategies, 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: 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: 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, Literature, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn 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 / HyperLinkStrategic Reading and Writing: Summarizing Antislavery Biographies
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: History-Social Science, Literature, United States History, Reading Comprehension and 2 additional..In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students practice writing effective summaries using biographies. They first read selections from ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGuided Comprehension in Action: Teaching Summarizing With the Bio-Cube
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students learn about how biographies are constructed using the Guided Comprehension model develop...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDocumenting the American South
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Religion, United States History, Literary Analysis and 3 additional..Documenting the American South (DAS) is a collection of sources on Southern history, literature, and culture from the colonial...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTypes of Point of View
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language ArtsThis 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 / HyperLinkBiography Writing with Patricia and Fredrick McKissack
Grades: 3 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis Scholastic Writing with Writers project focuses on biographical writing. Patricia and Fredrick McKissack, winners of the ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDiscovery Channels: Investigating the Legacies of Exploration and Colonization
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, World History, Reading Comprehension and 2 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students explore the issues surrounding the celebration of Columbus Da...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDude, I'm Interviewing the President: Examining Humor in the Newspaper and Creating Dialogues Between Famous Figures in American History
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students first explore the concept of the interview and the role of th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkJoltin' Joe Has Left and Gone Away: Assessing the Attributes and Influence of Joe DiMaggio and Other American Icons
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: American Democracy, History-Social Science, United States History, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionThis lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, encourages students to assess what qualities are most admirable in entert...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"I" Witness to History: Writing First-person Accounts of Historical Events
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, English-Language Arts, World History, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students read a first-hand account of the Japanese attack on Pearl Har...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFacing the Ghosts of Our Past: Writing Narrative Reflections on the Civil War and Slavery
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Film & Video, United States History, Reading Comprehension and 3 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students read a review of the movie "Beloved" as a starting point for ...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 / HyperLinkTaking the Witness Stand: Describing Historical Events from a First-person Perspective
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Writing Strategies, World History, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students identify a pivotal event in world history that they would lik...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPhotographic Memories: Creating Stories from Photographs
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, Career & Technical Ed, Arts, Media, & Entertainment, Reading Comprehension and 3 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students explore how photographs can be interpreted as conveying rich ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFirst Person Fiction
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Reading ComprehensionKidsReads.com presents this synopsis of the First Person Fiction series as part of its A-Z index of series book titles. The pa...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0