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Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative Creating a Childhood for a Character
Contains plans for four lessons that ask students to create childhoods for characters in books they have read. This lesson uses Jane Yolen's "Merlin and the Dragons" as an example, but this book report alternative can be used with a...
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Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative Comic Strips and Cartoon Squares
Contains plans for two lessons that provide an alternative to the traditional book report: using comic strips and cartoon squares to respond to a written text. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...
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Read Write Think: Book Review Template
Use this book review template to help students communicate what they have read in a more efficient manner. Other ideas for its use are provided.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese Real Time Data Projects: Movie in the Making
In this project students will report on a book by describing how they would turn that book into a motion picture. After reading and studying the main components of their novel, students will use their imaginations to explain how they...
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Class Flow: The Three Little Javelinas
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is to be used while reading the book The Three Little Javelinas. It includes a phonics review, vocabulary and drawing conclusions lessons, compare/contrast, and websites that would...