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Read Write Think: It's My Life Multimodal Autobiography Project
Contains plans for nine lessons that ask students to write autobiographies before creating multimedia presentations for them. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as...
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Read Write Think: The Mysteries of Memory Memorization Techniques That Work
Contains plans for four lessons that teach students about memory and techniques to better remember information. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...
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Read Write Think: Background for the Graphic Novel Persepolis a Web Quest on Iran
Contains plans for eight lessons that provide information on the Iranian Revolution as background material for the graphic novel "Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi. Some resources could be used without the novel. In addition to objectives...
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Read Write Think: Developing Searching, Skimming, and Scanning Skills
Contains plans for two or three lessons that teach searching, skimming, and scanning skills using an internet bingo game that is easily adaptable to a variety of topics. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan...
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Read Write Think: Inside or Outside? A Mini Lesson on Quotation Marks and More
Contains plans for a minilesson that teaches about the proper use of quotation marks in dialogue. 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: Did You Say Spiders?
Contains plans for six thirty-minute lessons that ask learners to make response journals and multimedia projects about spiders. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites...
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Read Write Think: Developing Phonemic Awareness
This online lesson stresses the importance of emergent readers' understanding of rhyming patterns in language. Through this, students will learn and apply the concepts of rhyme through exercises and interactive activities. A great...
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Read Write Think: Peer Review: Narrative
Excellent lesson that teaches a new and more relevant way of conducting a peer review. Through the PQP (Praise-Question-Polish) process students gain a greater understanding of how to review others' work as well as improve their own...
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Read Write Think: Technical Reading and Writing Using Board Games
Contains plans for a game that helps teach technical reading and writing while reviewing a novel that students have read. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as...
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Read Write Think: Guess What's in the Bag a Language Based Activity
Contains plans for a language activity called "Guess What's in the Bag." Learners try to guess the object in a bag in order to develop descriptive language, listening, and problem solving skills. In addition to objectives and standards,...
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Read Write Think: Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience
This series of lessons involves student collaboration, writing and analytical skills, technology and imagination. While the instructional activity suggests use of FrontPage, it would also be possible to use a number of other authoring...
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Read Write Think: Using Narrative for Expository Text
Lesson in which students read various narrative texts which provide a context for them to learn content-area topics. Narratives allow the students to begin to understand expository texts.
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Read Write Think: "The Giver" and Descriptive Writing
Online lesson plan uses the novel "The Giver," to teach students the importance of writing descriptive memoirs. Students write these descriptions individually after seeing their significance through the reading.
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Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative: Bookmarks
Interesting online lesson that offers a twist on the traditional book report. Middle schoolers use bookmarks online to justify their preferences and offer analysis of text; they use summaries and symbols to write and analyze.
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Read Write Think: Creating Class Rules a Beginning to Creating Community
Contains plans for two lessons that teach about proper classroom behavior and creating community by discussing why they are in school and what they need in order to accomplish their goals while there. In addition to objectives and...
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Read Write Think: Writing an Autobiographical Incident
Lesson in which students are required to read and analyze biographies and autobiographies and use them as a model for writing about an autobiographical experience. Students complete the writing process and share written work with the class.
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Read Write Think: Book Report Alternative Character and Author Business Cards
Contains plans for two lessons that provide an alternative to the traditional book report: students create character and author business cards. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used...
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Read Write Think: Draw a Math Story From the Concrete to the Symbolic
Contains plans for four cross-curricular lessons that ask students to write simple addition and subtraction stories after reading a number of models. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF...
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Read Write Think: Research Building Blocks: Skim, Scan, and Scroll
Contains plans for two lessons on locating supporting details that are part of a larger unit on researching a state symbol. It works on skills like determining the most important information, using key words to identify relevant...
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Read Write Think: Whole to Parts Phonics Instruction: Letter Sound Correspondences
Contains plans for two lessons that use the whole-to-parts phonics approach to beginning reading. It uses onset and rime to group word families and spelling patterns to show sounds in context. In addition to objectives and standards,...
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Read Write Think: Writing Leads in the Middle School Class
Great lesson in which students read various examples of "leads," or attention-grabbing introductions, in literature. Students then contemplate and develop their own interesting "lead" for a short story and share it with the class. Great...
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Read Write Think: Book Buddy Biographies Students Working Together
Contains plans for a few lessons that introduce a program called "Book Buddies" where intermediate students pair with primary students in order to read together. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains...
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Read Write Think: Combining Persuasion and Literary Analysis
Contains plans for eight lessons that ask middle schoolers to put characters from a work of literature on trial. This lesson uses Shakespeare's "The Tempest" as an example, but this concept can be applied to other works as well. In...
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Read Write Think: Everyone Loves a Mystery a Genre Study
Contains plans for lessons that teach about the mystery story genre, including its story elements and vocabulary. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lessons as well as...