This lesson asks students to analyze the features of a poetŐs work then create their own poems based on the original model.
In this minilesson, students practice identifying and purposefully using vocabulary in persuasive writing that is intended to have an emotional impact on the reader.
Students identify similes in poetry and gain experience in using similes as a poetic device in their own work.
This video segment from Between the Lions features a catchy song that celebrates an important function of literacy: access to information. It also shows the wide world of print, and all of the knowledge that can be gained from it.
Using the character of Edward Cullen from the Twilight series, this lesson introduces the Byronic hero and asks students to compare the Byronic hero to the traditional hero and villain.
Students explore the theme of love of war through texts on camaraderie among soldiers. They then compose a visual collage depicting their beliefs about the relationship between love and war.
Paper and pixels get compared in this lesson in which students compare both printed and online versions of a magazine.
This choice board, created from Google Slides, includes 20 different eBooks about magical creatures from fantasy, fable, and myth. Share this choice board directly with students and allow them to choose the eBooks they would like to read to learn more about the topic.
Children write and receive postcards from friends and family, and then chart where all those postcards come from on a classroom map.
Students will have a blast as they use descriptive language to write about an ŕexplosiveĚŇ and dramatic moment in their lives.
Following the model of N. Scott MomadayŐs The Way To Rainy Mountain, students write three-voice narratives based on Kiowa folktales, an interview with an Elder, and personal connections to theme.
Students reflect on their school year, creating a digital scrapbook consisting of images and text to present to their school community.
Students analyze the Gwendolyn BrooksŐ poem ŇWe Real CoolÓ and then write about how the characterŐs pool hall days might influence who the character becomes fifty years in the future.
Students work on a guided characterization project, using a graphic map to illustrate the ways a character from a book series grows and evolves over the course of the story.
This lesson provides ideas for celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by encouraging students to explore the connections between Dr. King and themselves through journaling and inquiry-based research.
Using The Giver, students discuss the importance recorded history. This provides context for descriptive writing of studentsŐ own history in a lesson that integrates personal writing, research, and literary response.
Students prepare an already published scholarly article for presentation, with an emphasis on identification of the author's thesis and argument structure.
This lesson teaches students how to use old verbs in a new way, thus creating new and fresh descriptive phrases.
Students read and discuss literature about intolerance and diversity. They work with a partner to write two-voice poems that illustrate situations of intolerance at their school and suggest a step toward acceptance.
Students use critical literacy skills to understand the concept of perspective and to then create a diary for an animal they research with a partner.