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1 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
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3 | Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
4 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
5 | Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
1 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
2 | Grades 1 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
3 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing Poetry
4 | Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
5 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
1 | Grades K – 12 | Calendar Activity | September 21
Today is the International Day of Peace.
2 | Grades 1 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
3 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing Poetry
4 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
5 | Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
Lesson Plans
Pictures Tell the Story: Improving Comprehension With Persepolis
Students get the big picture of the Middle East when they read and analyze Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis.
Student Interactives
The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay.
A High-Interest Novel Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in Schools
Students read a work of realistic fiction about bullying and gain understanding through writing, Readers Theatre, and discussion.
The Fractured Fairy Tale tool encourages students to create their own fractured fairy tales.
A Poem of Possibilities: Thinking about the Future
After reading John Updike's “Ex-Basketball Player,” students write poems describing themselves five years in the future. The teacher takes the poems and mails them to students in five years.
Useful for a wide variety of reading and writing activities, this outlining tool allows students to organize up to five levels of information.
Finding Poetry in Prose: Reading and Writing Love Poems
After reading several poems that expand the definition of love poetry, students compose found poems based on a personal memoir—either their own or a love story of another writer.
The Mystery Cube helps students identify and summarize story elements in this popular genre. It can be used as a postreading or prewriting activity.
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Graphic Novels in the Secondary Classroom and School Libraries
This article examines the rise in popularity of graphic novels, the sales of which have steadily increased as their influence expands into adolescent culture.
Both Art and Craft: Teaching Ideas That Spark Learning
This lively, readable text offers countless practical ideas for student activities in the areas of literature, reading, writing, and thematic units.
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Finding the "Write" on ReadWriteThink
Tisha Ortega | Teacher | Hartsburg, IL
I have been a Spanish teacher for almost 20 years, and I had always taught at large, urban schools