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Carolyn Wilhelm
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"ReadWriteThink is a big celebration of books and authors-and the nicest part is that everything is based on theory found in professional reading for teachers. The site allows teachers to stand on the shoulders of authors while empowering children to do the same. It is like one big book club with authors, illustrators, students, and teachers all working and publishing together!"
Before she retired, bringing books to life was a constant theme in Carolyn's classroom, where students imaginatively and thoughtfully approached literature. Books in her classroom had distinguished lives as the stories and authors mentored and guided student and teacher work in reading, writing, performing, and illustrating writers' work.
Carolyn Wilhelm is a National Board Certified Teacher and an NCTE member. She has been actively involved in Phi Delta Kappa, for which she has served as newsletter editor and secretary. She has a BS in Elementary Education, an MS in Special Studies of Gifted Children, and an MA in Curriculum and Instruction K-12. She has taught grades one, two, three, four, and five, as well as gifted education. She has been a free-lance curriculum writer since 1974.
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Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
A Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry
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.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
As Slippery as an Eel: An Ocean Unit Exploring Simile and Metaphor
Students play with simile and metaphor as they study the ocean and use figurative language to write a class book about it.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Completing the Circle: The Craft of Circular Plot Structure
Students identify, explore and apply the elements of circle plot structures to their own stories by using graphic organizers, reading and writing stories, and using checklists to assess their work.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Ferocious Fighting Fish: An Ocean Unit Exploring Beginning Word Sounds
Focus students’ attention on alliteration in this ocean-themed unit. Students explore alliteration in framing texts then compose their own class book to explore figurative language in their own writing.
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