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Read Write Think: Investigating Names to Explore Personal History and Tradition
Contains plans for six lessons that ask students to write about their names and cultural traditions using Sandra Cisneros? "The House on Mango Street" as an example. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan...
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Read Write Think: Writing a Persuasive Letter
This lesson plan uses "Emily's Runaway Imagination" by Beverly Cleary in conjunction with writing a persuasive letter. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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Read Write Think: How to Writing Motivating Students to Write for a Real Purpose
Contains plans for five fourth grade lessons that ask students to write essays for future fourth graders about how to have successful years. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in...
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Read Write Think: Creating Family Timelines Graphing Family Memories
Contains plans for five 50-minute lessons that ask students to create time lines of their own family and life histories. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in...
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Read Write Think: Graphing Plot and Character in a Novel
Contains plans for four lessons that use the book "The Watsons Go To Birmingham 1963" by Christopher Paul Curtis to teach about plot by asking student to graph events in the story. In addition to objectives and standards, this...
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Read Write Think: Enriching Writing With Adjectives and Synonyms
Contains plans for six lessons that teach third- and fourth-grade young scholars about adjectives and uses webbing to come up with synonyms for a list of them. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...
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Read Write Think: Using Comic Books to Teach Onomatopoeia
This lesson plan uses comic books to teach elements of onomatopoeia. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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Read Write Think: What's in a Mystery? Exploring and Identifying Mystery Elements
Contains plans for seven lessons that teach young scholars about the plot structure, character, and setting of the mystery genre. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
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Read Write Think: Exploring Reading Strategies
This lesson plan explores reading strategies by creating a musical soundtrack to accompany the specific reading. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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Read Write Think: Teaching Personification Through Poetry
This lesson plan examines the use of personification in the "great poets." Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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Read Write Think: Promoting Authentic Letter Writing
This lesson plan teaches letter-writing format by using literature and shared writing. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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Read Write Think: How and Why Characters Change
This lesson plan examines and makes inferences into the change and development in characters. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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Read Write Think: Romeo and Juliet for a Digital Age
Interesting lesson which allows students to relate more fully to this work of Shakespeare by rewriting and recreating scenes with modern, digital devices in mind (cell phones, computers, etc.). Excellent and interactive lesson plan.
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Read Write Think: A Directed Listening Thinking Activity
Lesson which requires students to listen to The Tell-Tale Heart read aloud, answer prediction questions during the reading, and write written responses after. Excellent for beginning a mystery unit.
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Read Write Think: Alliteration All Around
This lesson introduces young scholars to the concept of alliteration through the works of the author Pamela Duncan Edwards. Students interpret her illustrations and then create their own alliteration, sharing with the class.
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Read Write Think: Literature in Nonfiction Inquiry
This lesson plan involves students working in groups after reading a work of literature to develop text sets. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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Read Write Think: Creating Abc Books as Assessment
This lesson plan deals with the creation of an alphabet book in relation to the theme of community. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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Read Write Think: Creating a Safe Persona on the Internet
Contains plans for five lessons that explore naming conventions and safety on the internet. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and reflection...
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Read Write Think: Research Paper Strategies
Students use picture books in this lesson to find ideas for research paper topics and structures. Through the use of these resources, students are able to shape content in a much more meaningful way.
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Read Write Think: Question and Answer Books From Genre Study to Report Writing
Contains plans for eight lessons that explore Question and Answer Books and ask students to do research in order to write their own. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites used in the...
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Read Write Think: Growing Readers and Writers With Help From Mother Goose
Contains plans for short, daily minilessons that use nursery rhymes to teach basic reading skills. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as assessment and...
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Read Write Think: Composing and Performing Found Poetry
Excellent lesson plan that requires young scholars to work collaboratively to select parts of poetry and "perform" poems for the class. Uses the book "Berenstein Bears," but any children's book could be acceptable for the lesson plan.
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Read Write Think: Increasing Comprehension Through Prediction Strategies
Contains plans for a lesson about predicting the outcomes of stories based off their first lines. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the lessons as well as...
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Read Write Think: Analyzing Symbolism, Plot, and Theme in "Death and the Miser"
Contains plans for six lessons that ask students to apply literary analysis tools to the painting "Death and the Miser" by Hieronymous Bosch. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used...