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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCulture Shock
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Geography, History-Social Science, Writing StrategiesThis Xpeditions lesson asks students to think about how cultural customs differ throughout the world. Students research a foreig...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Boston Tea Party: Costume Optional?
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, United States History, Writing StrategiesThis lesson, from EDSITEment, contains three activities for students to study the events of the Boston Tea Party of 1776 and ref...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCreative Communication Frames: Discovering Similarities Between Writing and Art
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Visual Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students build a comparative frame to explore the creative processes of writing and art as c...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkIntroducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, and Internet Research
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Visual Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students read, write, speak, listen, and research as they interview a partner and write an a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMemories Matter: "The Giver" and Descriptive Writing Memoirs
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, History-Social Science, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students combine reading with descriptive writing. Students read "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Alternative Plots for Robert C. O'Brien's "Z for Zachariah"
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students read the science fiction novel "Z for Zachariah," by Robert C. O'Brien. This book i...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCosmic Oranges: Observation and Inquiry Through Descriptive Writing and Art
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Visual Arts, Science, Writing StrategiesThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, employs scientific observation, descriptive writing, sketching, reading, investigation, and po...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAlliteration in Headline Poems
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students are introduced to the term alliteration. They are given examples of alliteration and ask...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkShe Did What? Revising for Connotation
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students examine the simple sentence, "She walked into the room." Students act out ways that...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting a Flashback and Flash-Forward Story Using Movies and Texts as Models
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Visual Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson from ReadWriteThink, students are introduced to examples of flashbacks and flash-forwards through the film "The S...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: From Image to Detailed Narrative
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Visual Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this ReadWriteThink lesson, students think critically about their interpretations of the events in an image and write about t...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkChoose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Technology, Writing StrategiesThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, combines reading and writing in a collaborative, small-group learning experience. It utilizes ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkCreative Writing Through Wordless Picture Books
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students are exposed to wordless picture books, and they begin developing story lines orall...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBook Report Alternative: Summary, Symbol, and Analysis in Bookmarks
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students practice summarizing, recognizing symbols, and writing reviews--all while writing ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBook Reviews, Annotation, and Web Technology
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Technology, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students write a group book review, taking notes in their journals throughout the reading a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBook Report Alternative: Character and Author Business Cards
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students make business cards for characters and authors. As students make the business card...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkAudience, Purpose, and Language Use in Electronic Messages
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Technology, Writing StrategiesThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, explores the language of electronic messages and how it affects other writing. Furthermore, it...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkE-pals Around the World
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, Technology, Writing StrategiesThis lesson, from ReadWriteThink, helps teachers select e-pals for their students and develop real-life writing and learning exp...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHeroes Around Us
Grades: 6 to 8Subjects: Reading Comprehension, English-Language Arts, Humanities, History-Social Science, Writing StrategiesIn this lesson, from ReadWriteThink, students explore the distinction between a hero and an idol. Students select, read about, a...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWriting Folktales
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: English-Language Arts, Visual Arts, Writing StrategiesIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students explore the common elements of folktales and tall tales, while learning how these tales built ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0