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WriteDesign Online: Graphic Organizers
Grades: 1 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Literary Analysis, English-Language ArtsThis page, from WriteDesign, offers information about graphic organizers and their use in the classroom. There are links to seve...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0What's Fit to Print? Learning How to Read a Newspaper Critically
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Career & Technical Ed, Arts, Media, & Entertainment, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students evaluate how newspapers are constructed and evaluate the exte...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0What is a family?
Grades: 10 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.In this lesson we will explore the concept of what a family is and why a family is essential to our survival as human beings. T...Contributor: CTE OnlineViews: 0Favorites: 0Weaving the Threads: Integrating Poetry Annotation and Web Technology
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Technology, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, engages students in meaningful research using poetry as a focal point. Students identify words...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Washington 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: 0Voting! What's It All About?
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students both listen to information read aloud from a variety of sources and read from fict...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0The War in Vietnam: A Story in Photographs
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States History, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies and 4 additional..This lesson, provided by the National Archives and Records Administration, relates to Article I, Section 8, which grants Congre...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0The 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"The New York Times" - "All the News That's Fit to Print."
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis ReadWriteThink resource focuses on "The New York Times" and other contemporary newspapers. A classroom activity is featured...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Our Town
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading ComprehensionThis Big Read Teacher’s Guide contains ten lessons to lead you through Thorton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Our Town....Contributor: The Big Read Literature SeriesViews: 0Favorites: 0The American Revolution: Causes
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language ArtsIn this Discovery Education lesson, students will: 1. Taxation of the American colonists by the British led to the revoluti...Views: 0Favorites: 0The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading ComprehensionThis Big Read Teacher's Guide contains ten lessons to lead you through Mark Twain's classic novel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....Contributor: The Big Read Literature SeriesViews: 0Favorites: 0The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Literary Analysis, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsThis resource, from the American Library Association, features a list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990-2000. ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0That's News to Me!: Learning About and Creating a News Media Museum
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Technology and 3 additional..In this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students learn about the Newseum and create their own museum exploring...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Tell It Like It Is: Debating the Reliability of Online Information Resources
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Oral Presentations, Reading Comprehension, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students consider the accuracy of the Web sites they regularly use. Th...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Teaching the Compare and Contrast Essay through Modeling
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students and teacher together create the first half of a draft of a comparison and contrast...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Teaching Students to Evaluate Internet Information Critically
Grades: TK/K to 12Subjects: Technology, Professional DevelopmentThis article, from the International Reading Association, discusses how finding and using information on the Internet requires s...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Teacher CyberGuide: The Bronze Bow
Grades: 6Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Writing Strategies and 7 additional..This unit of instruction, found on the SCORE CyberGuide Web site, is a supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered resource ce...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Strategic Reading and Writing: Summarizing Antislavery Biographies
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, United States History, English-Language Arts and 2 additional..In this ReadWriteThink lesson, students practice writing effective summaries using biographies. They first read selections from ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Spreading the Word: Analyzing the Use of Propaganda in the War Against Terrorism
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, American Democracy, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students analyze the use of propaganda in the war against terrorism, f...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0