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Fact Fragment Frenzy provides elementary students with an online model for finding facts in nonfiction text, then invites students to find facts in five sample passages.

Subject:: English Language Arts; Language, Grammar, and Vocabulary; Reading Foundation Skills; Reading Informational Text; Reading Literature; Speaking and Listening
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Interactive
Provider:: ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:: ReadWriteThink
Date Added:: 11/18/2020

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Fairy Tales from Life

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Picture books provide the basis for an analysis of fairy tale elements before students write their own original tales.

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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Fighting Injustice by Studying Lessons of the Past

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Social injustice occurs every day all over the world. In this lesson, students research a few historical examples of social injustice, including the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, and Japanese internment.

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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From Fact to Fiction: Drawing and Writing Stories

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Students gather factual information about frogs and toads to create nonfiction and fiction stories. Drawing is used for prewriting.

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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From Stop Signs to the Golden Arches: Environmental Print

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Students bring the print-rich environment of the community into the classroom through the use of environmental print, enabling emergent readers to delight in the realization that they are indeed readers.

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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A Genre Study of Letters With The Jolly Postman

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Students read "The Jolly Postman", in which a postman delivers letters to storybook characters. They explore different types of mail and categorize letters from the book and their own mail. Children find favorite words, phrases, and sentences from familiar stories. Working together, they combine their words and phrases to create a poem. The poem is then shared as performance poetry.

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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Get Ready to Go Back to School

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Teachers and students come to school bringing a wide range of backgrounds, languages, abilities, and temperaments. Get things off to the best start by asking them to respect their differences and make the most of their similarities. By sharing information on their lives and dreams, students and teachers can build community in the classroom that will support literacy instruction throughout the school year.

Subject:: English Language Arts; Language, Grammar, and Vocabulary; Reading Foundation Skills; Reading Informational Text; Reading Literature; Speaking and Listening
Material Type:: Lesson Plan; Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:: ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:: ReadWriteThink
Date Added:: 11/18/2020

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A Getting-Acquainted Activity Using My Teacher's Secret Life

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Students build classroom community as they get to know each other and their teacher better by sharing what they like to do outside school.

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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Giving Voice to Child Laborers Through Monologues

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Students present monologues in the "voice" of someone involved in child labor in England, respond to questions, and then discuss contemporary child laborers and compare them to the past.

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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Giving Voice to Students Through "This I Believe" Podcasts

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Students write and record their own essays for a class blog by first completing a series of activities designed to get them thinking and writing about their experiences.

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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Graphic Map

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The Graphic Map assists teachers and students in reading and writing activities by charting the high and low points related to a particular item or group of items, such as events during a day or chapters in a book.

Subject:: English Language Arts; Language, Grammar, and Vocabulary; Reading Foundation Skills; Reading Informational Text; Reading Literature; Speaking and Listening
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Interactive
Provider:: ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:: ReadWriteThink
Date Added:: 11/18/2020

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Having "My "Say: A Multigenre Autobiography Project

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Students compose a multigenre paper, modeled after the Delany sister's autobiography, "Having Our Say", that includes the autobiographical narrative essay as well as an informational nonfiction piece.

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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Hero's Journey

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Students can use this tool to learn about the elements of the hero's journey, analyze a text that follows the hero's journey pattern, or start creating a hero story of their own.

Subject:: English Language Arts; Language, Grammar, and Vocabulary; Reading Foundation Skills; Reading Informational Text; Reading Literature; Speaking and Listening
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Interactive
Provider:: ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:: ReadWriteThink
Date Added:: 11/18/2020

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Hints about Print

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Hints about Print demonstrates the process of evaluating a nonfiction print resource to determine its appropriateness for a research project.

Subject:: English Language Arts; Language, Grammar, and Vocabulary; Reading Foundation Skills; Reading Informational Text; Reading Literature; Speaking and Listening
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Interactive
Provider:: ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:: ReadWriteThink
Date Added:: 11/18/2020

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The History Behind Song Lyrics

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Students research the items listed in the song ŕWe Didn't Start the FireĚŇ by Billy Joel, noting their historical relevance, and then document their findings using an online chart.

Subject:: English Language Arts; Language, Grammar, and Vocabulary; Reading Foundation Skills; Reading Informational Text; Reading Literature; Speaking and Listening
Material Type:: Activity/Lab; Unit of Study
Provider:: ReadWriteThink
Provider Set:: ReadWriteThink
Date Added:: 11/18/2020

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Id, Ego, and Superego in Dr. Seuss's "The Cat in the Hat"

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Dr. Seuss's "The Cat in the Hat" is used as a primer to teach students how to analyze a literary work using plot, theme, characterization, and psychoanalytical criticism.

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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Inferring How and Why Characters Change

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Students will really get into character when they read short stories and analyze the howŐs and whyŐs of charactersŐ behaviors.

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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Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, and Internet Research

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Students use their communication and writing skills as they interview a partner, write an article about them, and create a multimodal presentation to introduce their partner to the class.

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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Investigating Animals: Using Nonfiction for Inquiry-based Research

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Inspired by their curiosity about animals, students work together to research an animal of their choice and present the information they gather to an authentic audience.