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Book Report Alternative: Creating a Childhood for a Character
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Book Report Alternative: Creating a Childhood for a Character
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Students explore familiar literary characters, usually first encountered as adults, but whose childhood stories are only told later. Students then create childhoods for adult characters from books of their choice.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Informational Text
Reading Literature
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:
ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
07/08/2021
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Book Report Alternative: Creating a New Book Cover
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Book Report Alternative: Creating a New Book Cover
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Students explore book covers of a variety of books then create a new cover for a book they have read.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Informational Text
Reading Literature
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:
ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
07/08/2021
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Book Report Alternative: Examining Story Elements Using Story Map Comic Strips
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Book Report Alternative: Examining Story Elements Using Story Map Comic Strips
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Comic frames are traditionally used to illustrate a story in a short, concise format. In this lesson, students use a six-paneled comic strip frame to create a story map, summarizing a book or story that they've read. Each panel retells a particular detail or explains a literary element (such as setting or character) from the story.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Informational Text
Reading Literature
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:
ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
07/08/2021
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Book Report Alternative: Getting Acquainted with Farcebook
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In this alternative to the traditional book report, students report on their novel choices using Facebook-like pages.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Informational Text
Reading Literature
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:
ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
07/08/2021
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Book Report Alternative: Glog That Book!
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In this alternative book report, students identify the elements of fiction in books they have read by creating glogs, interactive multimedia posters, and then share their glogs.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Informational Text
Reading Literature
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:
ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
07/08/2021
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Book Report Alternative: Hooking a Reader with a Book Cover
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Students select a book to read based only on its cover art. After reading the book, they use an interactive tool to create a new cover for it.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Informational Text
Reading Literature
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:
ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
07/08/2021
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Book Report Alternative: Summary, Symbol, and Analysis in Bookmarks
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Book Report Alternative: Summary, Symbol, and Analysis in Bookmarks
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Students make bookmarks on computers and share their ideas with other readers at their school, while practicing summarizing, recognizing symbols, and writing reviews-all for an authentic audience.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Informational Text
Reading Literature
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:
ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
07/08/2021
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Book Report Alternative: The Elements of Fiction
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Book Report Alternative: The Elements of Fiction
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Students identify the elements of fiction in a book they have read and share summaries of them by writing and illustrating their own mini-book.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Informational Text
Reading Literature
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:
ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
07/08/2021
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Book Report Alternative: Writing Resumes for Characters in Historical Fiction
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Book Report Alternative: Writing Resumes for Characters in Historical Fiction
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Students write resumes for historical fiction characters. They first explore help wanted ads to see what employers want, and then draft resumes for the characters they've chosen.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Informational Text
Reading Literature
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:
ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
07/08/2021
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Book Reviews, Annotation, and Web Technology
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Book Reviews, Annotation, and Web Technology
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Students work in groups to create annotated book reviews with links to topics of interest related to their book.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Informational Text
Reading Literature
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Unit of Study
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:
ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
07/08/2021
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Book Sorting: Using Observation and Comprehension to Categorize Books
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Book Sorting: Using Observation and Comprehension to Categorize Books
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Students utilize their reading and writing skills as they think critically in order to sort books in multiple ways.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Informational Text
Reading Literature
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:
ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
07/08/2021
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BrainVenture Friendship
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BrainVenture Friendship
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BrainVentures are engaging & interactive, digital, enrichment activities meant to supplement your standard aligned curriculum. They can be used as indepent or collaborative practice as well as remotely or on campus.
Additional Standards: MDE SEL 3A-B, 4A-B Social Awareness 3A. Demonstrate awareness of other people’s emotions and perspectives 3B. Demonstrate consideration for others and a desire to positively contribute to the school and community. Relationship Skills 4A. Use positive communication and social skills to
interact effectively with others
4B. Develop and maintain positive relationships

Subject:
Business and Communication
Communication
Education
English Language Arts
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Interactive
Module
Reading
Author:
Wendy Skinner
Date Added:
03/15/2022
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Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English Dictionary
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Brave New Words: Novice Lexicography and the Oxford English Dictionary
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Students become novice lexicographers as they explore recent new entries to the dictionary, learn the process of writing entries for the Oxford English Dictionary, and write a new entry themselves.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Informational Text
Reading Literature
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:
ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
07/08/2021
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Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Critical Discussion of Social Issues
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Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Critical Discussion of Social Issues
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Through a series of picture book read-alouds, students engage in critical discussion of complex issues of race, class, and gender.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Informational Text
Reading Literature
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Author:
ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
07/08/2021
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Breaking the Rules with Sentence Fragments
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Though teachers usually caution students against using sentence fragments, Edgar Schuster's work demonstrates that professional writers often use fragments effectively. This lesson helps students understand that there are reasons that they can and should use sentence fragments to become effective writers.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Informational Text
Reading Literature
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:
ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
07/08/2021
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A "Brief, Urgent Message": Theme in Slaughterhouse-Five
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A "Brief, Urgent Message": Theme in Slaughterhouse-Five
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As a culminating activity for "Slaughterhouse-Five", students make a compilation album (a CD with 6-8 tracks) that reflects their analysis, understanding, and reaction to the ideas in the novel "Slaughterhouse-Five".

Subject:
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Informational Text
Reading Literature
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:
ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
07/08/2021
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Brochures: Writing for Audience and Purpose
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Brochures: Writing for Audience and Purpose
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Students create brochures on the same topic as another piece of writing they have done, highlighting how shifting purposes and audiences creates changes in their strategies as writers.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Informational Text
Reading Literature
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Unit of Study
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:
ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
07/08/2021
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Building Classroom Community Through the Exploration of Acrostic Poetry
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Building Classroom Community Through the Exploration of Acrostic Poetry
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What do your students think about each other? Find out as you teach them the concepts of acrostic poems and challenge them to write an uplifting acrostic about a classmate.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Informational Text
Reading Literature
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:
ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
07/08/2021
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Building Phonemic Awareness With Phoneme Isolation
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Students improve phonemic awareness through games and chants that help them isolate beginning and ending sounds and connect them with their written symbols (graphemes)

Subject:
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Informational Text
Reading Literature
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:
ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
07/08/2021
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Building Reading Comprehension Through Think-Alouds
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Building Reading Comprehension Through Think-Alouds
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Students learn components of think-alouds and type-of-text interactions through teacher modeling. In the process, students develop the ability to use think-alouds to aid in reading comprehension tasks.

Subject:
English Language Arts
Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Informational Text
Reading Literature
Speaking and Listening
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:
ReadWriteThink
Date Added:
07/08/2021
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