The Big, Bad Wolf...Is This a Fact?
(View Complete Item Description)Reading is revamped in this lesson in which students use a multimedia approach to study the books by Seymour Simon.
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Daily Book Boosts
(View Complete Item Description)Book Boosts: one-minute raves at the end of independent reading time: are easy ways to suggest new titles to students, and they act as a way for students to have something to think about as they read.
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Name Talk: Exploring Letter-Sound Knowledge in the Primary Classroom
(View Complete Item Description)Students demonstrate their letter/sound knowledge by working with name cards and sharing observations about their classmates names, giving teachers an opportunity to assess knowledge in a meaningful context.
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Multiple Perspectives: Building Critical Thinking Skills
(View Complete Item Description)Students use critical literacy skills to understand the concept of perspective and to then create a diary for an animal they research with a partner.
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Blogging With Photovoice: Sharing Pictures in an Integrated Classroom
(View Complete Item Description)Make the most of your students' diverse ability levels and experience with a prewriting activity in which they describe an abstract idea using blogging and photographs that they have taken.
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Peer Edit With Perfection: Effective Strategies
(View Complete Item Description)Students take a fresh look at the revision process and help one another polish their written work through a peer-editing strategy that is simple, systematic, and constructive.
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Critical Media Literacy: TV Programs
(View Complete Item Description)By critically analyzing popular television programs, students develop an awareness of the messages that are portrayed through the media.
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Letter Poems Deliver: Experimenting with Line Breaks in Poetry Writing
(View Complete Item Description)Students explore letter poems and experiment with writing letters as poems, using the placement of line breaks to enhance rhythm, sound, meaning, and appearance.
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Cowboys and Castles: Interacting With Fractured Texas Tales
(View Complete Item Description)What do cowboy hats have to do with fairy tales? Two traditional fairy tales and their Texas-based counterparts set the stage for five different ways to respond to text.
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Descriptive Writing and the 100th Day of School
(View Complete Item Description)Students write descriptions of 100th day bottles they create at home, write clues about their bottles for a guessing game, practice descriptive writing, and create a class book.
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Paying Attention to Technology: Writing Technology Autobiographies
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson plan asks students to pay attention to the technologies they use. They graphically map their interactions with technology and compose narratives of their most significant interactions with technology.
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Mail Time! An Integrated Postcard and Geography Study
(View Complete Item Description)Children write and receive postcards from friends and family, and then chart where all those postcards come from on a classroom map.
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Creative Outlining-From Freewriting to Formalizing
(View Complete Item Description)After reading a short story, students use freewriting as a catalyst for a literary analysis essay.
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Developing Characterization in Raymond Carver's "A Small, Good Thing"
(View Complete Item Description)Students read Raymond Carver's story "A Small, Good Thing," focusing on characterization in order to develop one of the static characters: the hit-and-run driver who causes Scotty's death more fully.
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Charting Characters for a More Complete Understanding of the Story
(View Complete Item Description)Character Perspective Charting allows students to compare multiple characters and their points of view to better understand a story.
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e-Book Reading and Response: Innovative Ways to Engage with Texts
(View Complete Item Description)Students in Grades 5 through 12 read and respond to electronic books by using e-book tools and features, including digital note-taking capabilities.
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Prompting Revision through Modeling and Written Conversations
(View Complete Item Description)Students create a checklist outlining what effective writers do, revise his or her own writing, and engage in a written conversation to help peers with the revision process.
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Creating a Feast for the Senses With Mentor Texts
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson teaches intermediate students to "use the experts" to learn how to revise to create sharp, sensory-rich experiences for their readers.
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Loaded Words: Vocabulary That Packs a Punch in Persuasive Writing
(View Complete Item Description)In this minilesson, students practice identifying and purposefully using vocabulary in persuasive writing that is intended to have an emotional impact on the reader.
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Voting! What's It All About?
(View Complete Item Description)Students explore a variety of sources for information about voting. They evaluate the information to determine if it is fact or opinion, and then create a graffiti wall about voting.
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