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Through listing and observation, students identify the many texts that they read and compose: including books and magazines, television shows, movies, audio broadcasts, hypertexts, and animations.

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:: 11/18/2020

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Defining Moments: Charting Character Evolution in Lord of the Flies

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Savagery, treachery, lost innocenceÉ "Lord of the Flies" is rife with character development. Use this lesson to help students chart the character changes of Ralph and Jack, both in groups and individually.

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:: 11/18/2020

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Delicious, Tasty, Yummy: Enriching Writing with Adjectives and Synonyms

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Students thoroughly explore identifying synonyms and adjectives before using them to add variety and interest to their own writing.

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:: 11/18/2020

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Demonstrating Comprehension Through Journal Writing

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Students demonstrate comprehension by responding to open-ended questions based on the Newbery Honor book "Mr. Popper's Penguins", and then draw from the text and their personal experiences to create journals.

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:: 11/18/2020

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Demonstrating Understanding of Richard Wright's Rite of Passage

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Students use the elements of persuasion for a specific audience to demonstrate their understanding of Richard WrightŐs accessible and engaging coming-of-age novel, "Rite of Passage.

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:: 11/18/2020

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Descriptive Video: Using Media Technology to Enhance Writing

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Students will have a roaring good time when they watch a scene from "The Lion King" as a way to compare standard and described programming media.

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:: 11/18/2020

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Descriptive Writing and the 100th Day of School

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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.

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:: 11/18/2020

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Designing Effective Poster Presentations

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Students explore the genre of posters, review informational writing and visual design, and then design poster presentations to share in class or at a school-wide fair.

Subject:: Arts; English Language Arts; Reading Informational Text
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Lesson Plan; Unit of Study
Provider:: ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:: ReadWriteThink
Date Added:: 11/18/2020

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Designing Elements of Story in Little Blue and Little Yellow

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In this series of four lessons, students will explore key elements of design in "Little Blue and Little Yellow" to learn about setting, character relationships, and plot.

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:: 11/18/2020

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Designing Museum Exhibits for "The Grapes of Wrath": A Multigenre Project

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Using "The Grapes of Wrath" as a backdrop, students conduct research on issues that the novel addresses, publishing their findings in a multigenre museum exhibit.

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:: 11/18/2020

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Determining Importance: Helping Students Recognize Important Points in Content Text

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Determining Importance: Helping Students Recognize Important Points in Content Text

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This article describes the reading strategy of determining importance and provides templates and guidance for teaching this content area strategy to elementary students.

Subject:: English Language Arts; Reading Informational Text
Material Type:: Lesson Plan
Provider:: Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
Provider Set:: Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears: An Online Magazine for K-5 Teachers
Author:: Clarissa Reeson; Tracey Allen
Date Added:: 02/09/2021

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Developing Characterization in Raymond CarverŐs ŇA Small, Good ThingÓ

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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 ScottyŐs death: more fully.

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:: 11/18/2020

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Developing Inferential Comprehension Through DL-TA and Discussion Webs

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Students will love unwrapping this lesson about before, during, and after reading activities based on Margaree King MitchellŐs book, "GrandaddyŐs Gift".

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:: 11/18/2020

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Developing Reading Plans to Support Independent Reading

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Students analyze their past readings and use that knowledge to create reading plans for the future.

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:: 11/18/2020

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Developing Searching, Skimming, and Scanning Skills With Internet Bingo

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Student pairs aim to be the first team to call out "bingo" in this lesson in which they use skimming and scanning to locate information about ancient Greece and Rome.

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:: 11/18/2020

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Developing Students' Critical Thinking Skills Through Whole-Class Dialogue

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ŇThatŐs my position and IŐm sticking to it!Ó After reading about the Korean War, students will take a position in response to an open-ended question, support their position, and evaluate that support.

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:: 11/18/2020

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Developing a Definition of Reading through Investigation in Middle School

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Students collaboratively interact with a variety of texts as they define reading and develop their own ReaderŐs Profiles modeled after online social networking sites.

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:: 11/18/2020

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Developing a Living Definition of Reading in the Elementary Classroom

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Using the guiding question, "What is reading?" students interact with a variety of texts as they uncover the skills necessary to interact with texts and develop a definition of reading.