Students use circle plot diagrams as writing tools to write their own stories, share their work with peers, and self-evaluate using a checklist.

Young scholars identify sets of objects and represent them in numbers, words, and pictures. Students incorporate numerical, visual, and written descriptions in a revised and published format.

Students investigate racial integration in the United States through these literature-based lessons. Students focus on pre- and post-reading strategies to increase reading comprehension.

Students choose books from the classroom library, then use their observation skills to sort them into categories while discussing the content and illustrations. The teacher guides students toward increasingly creative sorting methods.

Students have an opportunity to write addition and subtraction stories. Students first draw a series of pictures that depict adding more or taking away objects; they then write a corresponding story to go with the pictures they've drawn.

Pupils develop fluency as they participate in a choral reading of the text. After reading the story, students construct sentences using words from the predictable text. At the conclusion of the instructional activity, pupils write their...

Learners discuss the importance of a written history of humanity and how prior knowledge and life experiences influence others. They soon realize the horror of Jonas's utopian society.

Students build a greater understanding of poetry and the poet's voice. Further, the experience requires students to analyze and develop their own interpretation of a poem's meaning and representation through performance.

Students make persuasive arguments both orally and in writing after participating in a variety of activities. Students play a game, analyze an argument, and model a persuasive piece of writing using an online tool.

Pupils draw a sequential story and then match words to the drawings to write a published piece. Students write stories that include all literary elements.

Pupils participate in shared reading and book talks to recall main plot points and details in the stories they read. Students provide support and modeling for peers in their groups when responding to reading.

Pupils describe the basic conventions of cinquain and interpret examples of cinquain. Students characterize the relationship between structure and meaning in cinquain. Pupils compose their own cinquain that describes a person, place, or...

Young scholars listen to and read fairy tales, focusing on common elements and comprehension. Students collaborate in small groups to write and present original fairy tales to the class in a variety of formats.

Middle schoolers explore Dr. Martin Luther King's use of semicolons and their rhetorical significance, then apply the activity to their own writing by searching for ways to follow Dr. King's model and use the punctuation mark in their...

Pupils use multiple sources to create a timeline about the life of a person of their choosing. Students work together to research and resolve potentially conflicting information about the person they research.

Middle schoolers brainstorm crimes committed by characters from that text. Groups of students work together to act as the prosecution or defense for the selected characters, while also acting as the jury for other groups.

Students act out ways that the student in the sentence might enter the room, revising the sample sentence to increase the specificity of the word and explore connotation. Students select words with powerful connotations for their own...

Students examine how to develop a story's plot and resolve its conflict by analyzing picture books. Students use the text and illustrations as cues and the ReadWriteThink Story Map as tools in their understanding.

Students explore picture books to identify the characteristics of four types of conflict. Students analyze conflict using a graphic organizer. Students write a compare-and-contrast essay comparing a personal conflict with one from a...

Pupils write Family Message Journals to encourage family involvement. Students compose messages based on classroom activities through guided writing and, finally, independently.

Pupils write reports as emergent readers and writers. Students use non-fiction to research an animal of their choice, learn more about their world, and share their writing.

Pupils employ all of their senses in order to describe an orange. Young scholars use writing, including similes and metaphors, speaking, and drawing to demonstrate their knowledge of the orange.

Students participate in a shared, choral reading to focus on fluency and comprehension. Students participate in reader's theater to perform for an audience while further improving their literacy skills.

Learners identify the techniques of satire in a satirical work. Students analyze a satirical work to determine the comment or criticism it makes about the subject it ridicules.