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Home › Classroom Resources › Grades 3-4
Grades 2 – 5 | Lesson Plan
Name Tag Glyphs
In this lesson, students practice a way to communicate without words by using a glyph. They create a name card using information about themselves. Students also interpret glyphs made by others.
Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive
Acrostic Poems
This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Elements of the writing process are also included.
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Lesson Plans
Creating a Classroom Newspaper
Students write authentic newspaper stories, including learning about various aspects of newspapers, such as writing an article, online articles, newspaper reading habits, and layout and design techniques.
Student Interactives
This online activity helps students recognize word patterns by having them sort a series of words into short-vowel word families.
Exploring Cause and Effect Using Expository Texts About Natural Disasters
Students explore the nature and structure of expository texts that focusing on cause and effect and apply what they learned using graphic organizers and writing paragraphs to outline cause-and-effect relationships.
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.
Compiling Poetry Collections and a Working Definition of Poetry
This unit introduces students to a variety of poetic forms and elements, as they compile their own collections of poetry.
The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay.
Seasonal Haiku: Writing Poems to Celebrate Any Season
After listening to haiku poetry, students use seasonal descriptive words to write their own haiku, following the traditional format. They then publish their poems by mounting them on illustrated backgrounds.
This interactive tool allows students to create Venn Diagrams that contain two overlapping circles, enabling them to organize their information logically.
| Professional Development |
Paraphrasing: An Effective Comprehension Strategy
In this article, the author explains what paraphrasing is and how it can increase student's comprehension.
The First Thing Every Writer Has to Know
How do you get upper elementary and middle school writers to actually put something on the page, take a risk, produce a string of sentences? Get this question and more answered at Jeff's Web seminar!
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