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Nancy Drew
| Name | Nancy Drew |
| Location | Tecumseh, Ontario, Canada |
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"I happened onto ReadWriteThink.org by chance, as I was browsing the International Reading Association website. The program immediately caught my attention, and I applied first as a peer reviewer and then as a lesson writer. Both have been very positive experiences, challenging and at the same time affirming."
Nancy Drew is a teacher consultant for the Greater Essex County District School Board in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Her current assignment includes work in early literacy and early years for the district's 60 elementary schools. Nancy has been a classroom teacher for 18 years and has taught from kindergarten through sixth grade. She has also worked in a number of schools to assist students and teachers in integrating technology into their curriculum. In addition, Nancy worked on the Early Reading Strategy, a province-wide early literacy initiative coordinated by the Ministry of Education. She assisted in training teachers in the implementation of a balanced literacy model of instruction. Nancy is a member of the International Reading Association.
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Contributions on ReadWriteThink.org |
Grades K – 4 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Digging Deeper: Developing Comprehension Using Thank You, Mr. Falker
A read-aloud of Patricia Polacco’s Thank You, Mr. Falker helps promote deeper comprehension through questioning to achieve personal connections and discussions of character and theme.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Fact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using Diary of a Worm
Students often believe that fiction writers make everything up, seldom realizing how research worms its way into entertaining writing. In this lesson, students read Diary of a Worm to find out how fact merges with fiction.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Recurring Lesson
Learning Centers: From Shared to Independent Practice
Seven blind mice—see how they spend each day of the week in this lesson that uses the book Seven Blind Mice to guide students through shared reading, writing, and listening activities.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Minilesson
Use an engaging, authentic text to build students’ knowledge of phonic elements and give them a taste of Japanese culture.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Q is for Duck: Using Alphabet Books With Struggling Writers
A is for zoo? Q is for duck? The alphabet as students know it is transformed when students create a class book that contains clever associations for each letter of the alphabet.
Grades 2 – 3 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Using Web-Based Bookmarks to Conduct Internet Research
The important thing about this lesson is… that it connects literature and science. The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown provides a model for original student poems about a content area topic. Web-based bookmarks guide students to appropriate sites on the topic, and a graphic organizer helps them focus their research.
