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Michelle Ota
| Name | Michelle Ota |
| Location | Seattle, Washington |
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Contributions on ReadWriteThink.org |
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Color Poems—Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting
Students use their five senses as a prewriting tool to guide their poetry writing as they compose free-form poems using imagery to describe a color.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Promoting Diversity in the Classroom and School Library through Social Action
Students explore the effects of stereotypes by analyzing children’s books. Then they create bookmarks that encourage readers to question the assumptions of stereotyped books and to seek out matching, balanced texts.
