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Read Write Think: Sequence of Events Chart
A printable graphic organizer to help students sequence events and recognize cause and effect relationships within a story. Directions on how to use this graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are also...
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Read Write Think: Thoughtful Threads: Sparking Rich Online Discussions
Today's learners love chatting online with friends. This lesson plan combines that love with literature. Students form literature circles and have meaningful online discussions about a literary work.
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Read Write Think: Cnn Debuted as the First Television News Network in 1980
These lesson plans relate to the gathering and production of news and creating a visual timeline. There are links to other lesson plan ideas, as well as web links, and a brief bibliography. SL.11-12.2 Eval&Integrate sources
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Read Write Think: Acquiring New Vocabulary
This lesson teaches elementary students new vocabulary terms through book discussion groups. Students use context clues, prior knowledge, and print and online resources for vocabulary understanding in their discussion.
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Read Write Think: Writing Good Endings
This lesson plan explores endings and conclusions to children's literature in an attempt to teach how to successfully write a good ending. Included in the lesson plan are an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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Read Write Think: Digging Up Details on Worms: Using Science in an Inquiry Study
A lesson plan based on a study unit of earthworms, using the inquiry model to integrate scientific processes with literacy practices. Instruction plans, related resources, and standards are included.
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Read Write Think: Writing Reports in Kindergarten
Lesson which provides three types of reports for early elementary students to share. These allow young students to see themselves as writers with something useful to contribute from an early age.
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Read Write Think: Defining and Exploring an Author's Stylistic Choices
Contains plans for two lessons that teach students how to recognize an author's use of style in literature. These plans use "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston as an example, but the basic ideas can be adapted to other...
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Read Write Think: Collaborative Revising
Lesson in which students engage in an entire-group revising process, using a story which has already been written by the group. An excellent follow-up lesson to the "prewriting and drafting" lesson.
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Read Write Think: Using Comprehension Strategies With Elie Wiesel's Night
Working in small groups, students read and discuss Elie Wiesel's memoir Night and then take turns assuming the "teacher" role, as the class works with four different comprehension strategies.RI.11-12.4 Word meaning, RI.11-12.10b Text...
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Read Write Think: Creating Question and Answer Books Through Guided Research
Contains plans for five lessons that develop research skills in primary students by having them create their own question and answer books. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in...
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Read Write Think: Reading/writing About Whales Using Fiction and Nonfiction Texts
Students will have a whale of a good time in this lesson in which they use fiction and nonfiction texts to write a letter to an online scientist.
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Read Write Think: Exploring Satire With the Simpsons
Contains plans for three lessons that use the popular television show "The Simpsons" to teach about satire and satirical techniques. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and...
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Read Write Think: Poetry: Varying Views of America
Lesson allows learners to examine the various views of American perspective through studying three poems by diverse poets: "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman, "I, Too, Sing America" by Langston Hughes, and "On the Pulse of Morning"...
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Read Write Think: Reading Comprehension Through Math Problem Solving
Contains plans for two lessons designed to help primary students' reading comprehension with mathematical story problems. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as...
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Read Write Think: Exploring Mlk's Words Through Poetry
This online lesson attempts to teach students the power of Martin Luther King's words in his "I Have a Dream" speech and others. Students create a diamante poem (seven-line diamond-shaped poem) to analyze and evaluate his words and...
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Read Write Think: Text Features: Non Fiction [Pdf]
Compare the printed page to an electronic web page and use this activity to discuss the similarities and differences. A cross-curricular tie-in with ecosystems. Could easily be adapted to another subject area.
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Read Write Think: Making Connections to Myth and Folktale
Excellent online lesson based on N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain. Students create a three-voice narrative based on the novel in studying and learning about myths and folktales. W.9-10.3a,3b,3d,3e Narratives, W.9-10.5 Writing...
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Read Write Think: Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender Fair Pronouns
Contains plans for two lessons that teach students how to avoid gender stereotyping while using pronouns. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment...
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Read Write Think: Become a Character
In this online lesson and activity, students actually "become" a character from a novel in their analysis of characterization. The lesson uses the Scarlet Letter, but any novel can be used. RL.9-10.3 Analyzing Characters, RL.11-12.3 Auth...
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Read Write Think: Notetaker Interactive Tool
An excellent interactive site which allows students to take notes as well as organize, plan, and revise their writing, as well as assist with reading skills. Provides several options for student creativity and improvement concerning...
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Read Write Think: The Statue of Anne
A short activity centered around "Copyright Awareness Week." A good resource for teachers who are looking for manageable ways to teach the ethics and laws concerning copyrighting and plagiarism.
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Read Write Think: Double Entry Journal
A printable double-entry journal page along with directions on how to use this type of graphic organize, as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources.
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Read Write Think: Essay Rubric
A printable four-point rubric to use when evaluating essays for focus/details, organization, voice, word choice, and usage/mechanics. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organize as well as lists of teaching ideas are also...