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Read Write Think: Playing With Genre Through Newspapers and Short Stories Lesson PlanRead Write Think: Playing With Genre Through Newspapers and Short Stories Lesson Plan
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ReadWriteThink
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Grade
6th - 8th
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English Language Arts
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Lesson Plans
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Lexile Measures
1220L
Lesson Plan

Read Write Think: Playing With Genre Through Newspapers and Short Stories

Curated by ACT

Contains plans for three lessons that ask middle schoolers to compare narrative writing (short stories) to expository writing (news articles) in order to understand what makes each genre unique. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection activities.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

expository text

Additional Tags

compare genre, expository, expository information, understand genre, ncte, readwritethink: playing with genre through newspapers and short stories, readwritethink, expository writing, genre

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

CCRA.R.9 W.6.9.a RL.6.7 RL.7.6 RL.8.2 RL.7.2 RL.8.5 SL.7.2 CCRA.W.3 RI.6.9 RI.7.9 RI.6.6 RL.6.9 RL.6.2 RI.7.2 RI.8.9 RI.6.2 CCRA.R.6 RST.6-8.5 RI.8.2 RST.6-8.6 CCRA.W.2 RI.7.7 RI.8.10 W.7.3.e

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