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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Worth Its Weight Letter Writing With "The Things They Carried"

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Contains plans for six lessons that use the Tim O'Brien's story "The Things They Carried" to teach about an author's style as well as letter writing. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Beginning Writers Compare E Mail With Letter Writing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for three lessons that teach younger students the differences between letter writing and e-mail writing. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Promoting Authentic Letter Writing

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
This lesson plan teaches letter-writing format by using literature and shared writing. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Mail Time! An Integrated Postcard and Geography Study

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for five cross-curricular lessons that teach about geography, reading, and writing by having students send postcards to relatives and asking them to send postcards back. In addition to objectives and standards, this...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Writing Effective Letters to the Editor

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Contains plans for four lessons that teach students how to write letters to the editor, including what one is, a review of persuasive writing and letter format, and the importance of writing many drafts. In addition to objectives and...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Bats, Friend or Foe. An Argument Writing Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
Students will state an argument with evidence, for or against, bats being removed from their environment by writing a letter to the editor and citing evidence for your claim.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Writing a Persuasive Letter

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan uses "Emily's Runaway Imagination" by Beverly Cleary in conjunction with writing a persuasive letter. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative: A Character?s Letter to the Editor

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Contains plans for four 50-minute lessons that ask students to write letters to the editor from the points of view of characters in books they have read. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Exploring Literature Through Letter Writing Groups

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan enables students to participate in a letter exchange designed to promote discussion on literature-based topics. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Improving Student Writing Through Critical Thinking

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Contains plans for a instructional activity about writing draft letters, or reflective letters about pieces of writing that students are submitting to an instructor. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Songwriting for Beginning Letter Sounds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A great resource for teachers. This lesson plan uses songs and singing as a guide for young scholars in learning letter names and beginning consonant sounds. Students in first and second grade can extend this lesson by creating new...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: The Ab Cs of Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Contains plans for a poetry lesson that asks students to write poems after brainstorming metaphors and other ideas as a group. Ideas are groups by different themes, like letters of the alphabet. In addition to objectives and standards,...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Alphabiography Project Totally You

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Contains plans for two lessons that ask learners to write autobiographies using aspects of their lives for each letter of the alphabet. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Phonics Through Literature Learning About the Letter M

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Contains plans for lessons that teach about the letter M using a "Mystery Box" filled with items starting with M and the books "Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed" and "Five Little Monkeys Sitting in a Tree" by Eileen Christelow. In...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: A Z: Learning About the Alphabet Book Genre

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Contains plans for at least seven 20- to 30-minute sessions about alphabet books. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to PDF handouts and links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: A Mini Lesson on Semicolons

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Practical lesson on middle schoolers' use of the semicolon, modeled on Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Reading and Analyzing Multigenre Texts

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This lesson plan deals with the process of analyzing a variety of literary texts from poetry and letters to diary entries and works of fiction. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Become a Character

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this online lesson plan and activity, students actually "become" a character from a novel in their analysis of characterization. The lesson plan uses the Scarlet Letter, but any novel can be used. RL.9-10.3 Analyzing Characters,...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Phonic Generalizations in "Chrysanthemum"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This online lesson uses an interactive activity to teach students how to determine the common and alternative sounds for specific vowel combinations. The words for this lesson are taken from the book "Chrysanthemum," by Kevin Henkes....
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Alphabet Organizer

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
An online resource for a variety of tools and topics concerning student knowledge and learning of the English alphabet. Includes lesson plan links, online tools, interactive games, and more.
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Playing Name Bingo With

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Contains plans for two lessons of get-to-know-you activities that use a Name Bingo Game to help learners break the ice with each other. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Thank You Day

For Teachers 2nd
Show appreciate for important people by writing letters.
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CPALMS

Mountain Bicycles, Inc.

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this MEA simulation, kindergarten students will be deciding which type of bike will be best for a company to sell in their community. Students must work in cooperative groups as they determine...
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Van Gogh's Self Portraits

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students will examine Vincent van Gogh's self-portraits and letters to better understand the artist's life story and personality. They will paint two Van Gogh-style self-portraits to show two parts of their own personality and write a...

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