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Bingo! Using Environmental Print to Practice Reading

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The game Bingo is transformed in this lesson in which students use symbols and images to make connections to environmental print through the use of personalized Bingo cards.

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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Bio Cube

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Bio Cube is a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person for a biography or autobiography.

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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Biographies: Creating Timelines of a Life

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In this lesson students explore a number of sources to create a biographical timeline about a selected person. Students collaboratively research and resolve conflicting information they find during their investigation.

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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A Biography Study: Using Role-Play to Explore Authors' Lives

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Students read biographies and explore websites of selected American authors and then role-play as the authors.

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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Blending Fiction and Nonfiction to Improve Comprehension and Writing Skills

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Students use a text set to increase understanding of content area material and demonstrate what they have learned by writing an original piece that blends together narrative and expository elements.

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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Blending the Past with Today's Technology: Using Prezi to Prepare for Historical Fiction

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To prepare for literature circles featuring historical novels, students research the decades of the 1930s to the 1990s and share their information using Prezi, a web application for creating multimedia presentations.

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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Blogging With Photovoice: Sharing Pictures in an Integrated Classroom

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Make the most of your students' diverse ability levels and experience with a prewriting activity in which they describe an abstract idea using blogging and photographs that they have taken.

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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Blogtopia: Blogging about Your Own Utopia

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Students work together to create their own utopias, using blogs as the primary source of publication.

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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Book Buddy Biographies: Intermediate and Primary Students Working Together

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Students create a personalized biography for their reading buddy, and each child is the author, illustrator, and editor.

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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Book Clubs: Reading for Fun

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This lesson describes how small groups of students can plan meetings to discuss what they've read in a "just for fun" book club they've organized - and that they control.

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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Book Cover Guide

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Explore the parts of book covers and dust jackets with this online guide, designed to to allow users to review the content that appears on each portion of these artifacts.

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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Book Report Alternative: A Character's Letter to the Editor

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Students write a persuasive letter to the editor of a newspaper from a selected fictional character's perspective, focusing on a specific issue or situation explored in the novel.

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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Book Report Alternative: Character and Author Business Cards

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Students respond to a book they have read by thinking symbolically to create a business card for one of the characters.

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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Book Report Alternative: Characters for Hire! Studying Character in Drama

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In this alternative to the traditional book report, students respond to a play they have read by creating a resume for one of its characters.

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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Book Report Alternative: Comic Strips and Cartoon Squares

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Students must think critically to create comic strips highlighting six important scenes from a book they have read.

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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Book Report Alternative: Creating Reading Excitement with Book Trailers

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In this alternative to the traditional book report, students create book trailers using Microsoft Photo Story 3, a free downloadable software program for digital storytelling.

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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Book Report Alternative: Creating a Childhood for a Character

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Students explore familiar literary characters, usually first encountered as adults, but whose childhood stories are only told later. Students then create childhoods for adult characters from books of their choice.

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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Book Report Alternative: Creating a New Book Cover

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Students explore book covers of a variety of books then create a new cover for a book they have read.

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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Book Report Alternative: Examining Story Elements Using Story Map Comic Strips

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Comic frames are traditionally used to illustrate a story in a short, concise format. In this lesson, students use a six-paneled comic strip frame to create a story map, summarizing a book or story that they've read. Each panel retells a particular detail or explains a literary element (such as setting or character) from the story.