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Read Write Think: Wartime Poetry Working With Similes
Contains plans for four lessons that use photos and depictions of World War II to inspire similes to use in poems. 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: Flip a Chip: Examining Affixes and Roots to Build Vocabulary
Contains plans for a vocabulary lesson that uses an activity called Flip-a-Chip to teach about affixes. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the lesson as well as assessment and...
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Read Write Think: Living the Dream 100 Acts of Kindness
Contains plans for mini-lessons that ask students to put the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in action by performing 100 acts of kindness. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used...
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Read Write Think: A Mini Lesson on Semicolons
Practical activity on students' use of the semicolon, modeled on Martin Luther King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail."
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Read Write Think: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Media
Contains plans for five lessons that teach students how to recognize and avoid stereotyping in media. 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: Guided Comprehension: Monitoring
Online lesson introduces students to the concept of monitoring. Students learn the INSERT technique, which allows them to monitor their thinking and comprehension using a coding system.
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Read Write Think: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations
Contains plans for two lessons that use movement and cheering to teach the letter y spelling generalization. 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: Ghosts and Fear in Language Arts
This lesson plan explores the scaring methods employed by Gothic literature and ghost stories. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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Read Write Think: Creating Careers for Characters
Interactive lesson which allows students to actually "become" a character in a story they have read. Students analyze and evaluate their character, and extend the activity into choosing a career for that character.
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Read Write Think: A Harlem Renaissance Retrospective
In this lesson plan, students work in collaborative groups to conduct Internet research and create a museum exhibit that highlights the work of selected artists, musicians, and poets of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Read Write Think: Strategy to Define: Identify Poetic Terms
Online lesson plan offers teachers the ability to teach a "Four-square," strategy technique for poetic terms. Young scholars explore websites and define terms such as alliteration, assonance, simile, and rhyme.
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Read Write Think: m.l. King, Jr.: Identifying With a Hero
Lesson that attempts to help younger students understand and identify with Martin Luther King, Jr. through reading, writing, listening, and speaking activities. Encourages students to attempt to live out King's "Dream," in their own lives.
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Read Write Think: A Hunting We Will Go Teaching Rhyming Through Musical Verse
Contains plans for two lessons that teach about rhyming words using the song "A-Hunting We Will Go." 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: Using Process Drama in the Classroom
This lesson plan for using process drama in the classroom includes an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
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Read Write Think: Writing Poetry With Rebus and Rhyme
An excellent resource for teachers who are interested in teaching innovative poetry techniques to their elementary students. Uses proven and well-documented methods to teach poetic elements in reading and writing.
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Read Write Think: Teaching the Compare and Contrast Essay Through Modeling
Contains plans for three lessons that teach students how to write comparison contrast essays after modeling the form to 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: Sort, Hunt, Write a Weekly Spelling Program
Contains plans for five lessons that provide a spelling program where students categorize spelling words before using them in context. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to sites used in the...
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Read Write Think: Lesson Plan: Reading Fluency Through Oral Interpretation
An online lesson plan for middle school students concerning learning reading fluency through oral interpretation. Students read poetry aloud in presentation-form and work together at interpreting the poem, increasing understanding of...
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Read Write Think: An Active & Passive Voice Mini Lesson
Lesson which allows students to explore active/passive voice verb choice through numerous online resources, and then apply these principles to their own writing style.
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Read Write Think: Using Word Webs to Teach Synonyms for Commonly Used Words
Contains plans for seven lessons that teach students to use more expressive synonyms in their written and oral language. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains printable resources for the lessons as...
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Read Write Think: Seuss and Silverstein: Posing Questions, Presenting Points
Contains plans for four lessons that ask learners to formulate critical thinking questions and lead class discussions about the issues raised in the books of Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein. In addition to objectives and standards, this...
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Read Write Think: To, Too, or Two Developing an Understanding of Homophones
Contains plans for a lesson that teaches students the difference among common homophones using many modalities. 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: Dynamic Duo Text Talks Examining the Content of Internet Sites
Contains plans for two lessons that ask student to explore a variety of online texts about Anne Frank and the Holocaust. 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: Reading and Analyzing Multigenre Texts
This lesson plan deals with the process of analyzing a variety of literary texts from poetry and letters to diary entries and works of fiction. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and...