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Sharon Roth
| Name | Sharon Roth |
| Location | Urbana, Illinois |
| Role | Director of Professional Development |
| Membership |  |
"ReadWriteThink has been a great opportunity for me to work with teachers across the country as they connect their classroom experience to professional development by writing standards-based, peer-reviewed lesson plans for the site."
Sharon is the Division Director of Professional Development at NCTE. With experiences in elementary education, instructional technology, and administration, Sharon has contributed to the field of education for seventeen years. In her current position, she develops online and onsite professional development experiences for K–college educators, overseeing the NCTE Consulting Network and the Pathways projects.
As an elementary teacher in a pre K-12 district, she has taught language arts, social studies, science, and mathematics. In addition to her classroom teaching experience, she has served as a curriculum coach for K-6 teachers to assist teachers in aligning classroom practices with state and national standards, and designing appropriate assessment tools.
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Contributions on ReadWriteThink.org |
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Cover to Cover: Comparing Books to Movies
Students compare and analyze novels and the movies adapted from them. They design new DVD covers and a related insert for the movies, reflecting their response to the movie version.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan
Get the Reel Scoop: Comparing Books to Movies
Students compare a book to its film adaptation, and then perform readers theater of a scene from the book that they feel was not well represented in the movie version.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Investigating Junk Mail: Negotiating Critical Literacy at the Mailbox
Students increase their media literacy skills by critically examining and revising junk mail.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Leading to Great Places in the Elementary Classroom
Students examine great leads in children's literature before writing or revising a lead in their own writing.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Leading to Great Places in the Middle School Classroom
Students examine leads in existing texts and create alternative leads for them before revising leads in their own writing.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Learning to Learn with Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster
Modeled on the activities in Miss Alaineus: A Vocabulary Disaster, a picture book, students combine vocabulary exploration with word play by planning their own vocabulary parade.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Playing with Prepositions through Poetry
Students play with and explore prepositions during a whole group reading of Ruth Heller’s Behind the Mask, and then by composing and publishing prepositional poems based on the book’s style.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Polishing Preposition Skills through Poetry and Publication
Students deepen and refine their understanding of prepositions by reading Ruth Heller's Behind the Mask. They write preposition poetry and create a study guide using an online tool.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Using Picture Books to Teach Characterization in Writing Workshop
Students explore character development through experiences with picture books. They learn about the connections between reading and writing and apply the information they learn to revisions of their own writing.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Using Picture Books to Teach Setting Development in Writing Workshop
Students use a graphic organizer to analyze setting development in picture books. They then apply what they have learned to their own writing.
