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Verizon Thinkfinity offers thousands of free K-12 educational resources across seven disciplines for use in and out of school.
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Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan
Can You Convince Me? Developing Persuasive Writing
Through a classroom game and resource handouts, students learn about the techniques used in persuasive oral arguments and apply them to independent persuasive writing activities.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan
Facilitating Student-Led Seminar Discussions with The Piano Lesson
August Wilson's play The Piano Lesson invites students to ask a number of questions—big
and small. After reading the first act, students learn how to create effective discussion questions and
then put them to use in student-led seminar discussions after act 1 and again at the end of the play.
Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive
Grades K – 12 | Printout
Grades K – 8 | Student Interactive
Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive
This tool provides a fun and useful way to explore a character in a book or as a prewriting exercise when creating characters for original stories.
Grades K – 12 | Printout
Students can use this template as a means of communicating about a book that they have read.
Grades K – 8 | Student Interactive
The Postcard Creator helps students learn to identify all the typical parts of a postcard, and then generate their own postcard messages by typing information into letter templates. After printing their texts, students can illustrate the front of their postcards in a variety of ways, including drawing, collage, and stickers.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan
Let's Talk About Stories: Shared Discussion With Amazing Grace
Make space for critical literacy and engage students in meaningful, thoughtful discussions. Using Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman, students dig deep into themes such as prejudice, courage, and self-confidence.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan
Females in the Spotlight: Strong Characters in Picture Books
What makes a character strong? Students will gain a new perspective on that question as they read and discuss the picture books recommended for this lesson. Students make the acquaintance of several strong female protagonists as they create and share Character Trading Cards based on these titles.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan
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 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan
Naming in a Digital World: Creating a Safe Persona on the Internet
Students explore naming conventions in digital and non-digital settings then choose and explain specific names and profiles to represent themselves online.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan
Name That Chapter! Discussing Summary and Interpretation Using Chapter Titles
Students name unnamed chapters in a novel they are reading. They discuss possible chapter names, considering accuracy, word choice, and connotation, before settling on a choice.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan
More than One Way to Create Vivid Verbs
This lesson teaches students how to use old verbs in a new way, thus creating new and fresh descriptive phrases.
