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Kristina McLaughlin
| Name | Kristina McLaughlin |
| Location | East Palestine, Ohio |
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"I always find lesson plans on ReadWriteThink.org that match my needs. The lessons are easy to adapt and modify for my class in an Internet school. I recommend the site to teachers in other school districts for its ease of use and fantastic assortment of lessons based on theory."
Kristina McLaughlin has been teaching in northeast Ohio since 1998. For a year and a half, she taught middle- and secondary-level English in a state-run, maximum-security prison for juvenile male offenders. She then taught Title I reading and math for grades 5 to 7 at a charter school in Youngstown, Ohio. Recently, Kristina has been teaching high school English for Treca Digital Academy, an online school. She also teaches at the Kent State University Salem campus. Her instruction there helps college students increase their reading comprehension skills.
Kristina is a member of the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the Modern Language Association. She finds resources provided by IRA and NCTE, including ReadWriteThink.org, to be helpful in developing curriculum and lesson plans that are pertinent to today's students and varying state standards.
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Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Exploring and Sharing Family Stories
Writing gets personal when students interview family members in order to write a personal narrative about that person.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Lights, Camera, Action: Interviewing a Book Character
Students get the inside scoop on a story when they create interview questions and answers for characters in the books they read.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Minilesson
Manipulating Sentences to Reinforce Grammar Skills
Students manipulate sentences from books or magazines to examine changes in meaning and parts of speech.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Recurring Lesson
Using a Word Journal to Create a Personal Dictionary
Students will be the definition of vocabulary experts as they use the skills they learn in this lesson to track, define, and ultimately master unfamiliar words.
