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Students read the book and watch the movie Charlotte's Web. In this compare and contrast lesson, students take notes and then use a Venn diagram to compare the book and the movie. During the lessons students discuss friendship, problem solving, and how Charlotte worked to help Wilbur.
Students analyze the recent boom in women's sports, focusing on the Women's World Cup Soccer tournament to examine various people's views about women athletes. They write a newspaper article summarizing what they learned in their 'interviews.'
Middle schoolers complete a survey to explore the popularity of Harry Potter books. In this literature and controversy lesson, students examine why certain books are controversial or popular. Middle schoolers write original plays about their favorite Harry Potter book.
Students investigate the role and nature of story-telling as it preserves history and culture and discuss how puppetry serves as an effective method of presentation. They create basic outlines for puppet shows that relay important historical events.
Students study the fundamentals of playwriting and complete a variety of pre-writing activities before they use expressive language in writing their own one-act plays. They also build "bigger-than-life" sculptures of the main character in their plays.
Fourth graders use graphic organizers as a tool to enhance writing by improving organization and including details. In addition, 4th graders are encouraged to use graphic organizers to organize their ideas when writing in other content areas.
Young scholars drill on Spanish vocabulary words by participating in a card game. They use a list of teacher-prepared clues that are glued to cards. Later they apply these words to skits and dialogues about health issues.
Sixth graders discover word choices to use when writing a conversation. They explore synonyms for "said." Students examine a thesaurus. They create a writing piece using the writing process. Students edit and revise their work.
Learners investigate writing scenarios that can be performed. They examine the parts and levels of scenarios that can actually be performed.
Fourth graders apply syllable division rules and letter-sound correspondence rules to decode mystery words. They work on increasing their reading fluency by participating in choral or concert reading each day. They read along with the teacher as she encourages proper flow, phrasing, and intonation while reading. Finally, they answer question about the reading.