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1 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
2 | Grades K – 5 | Student Interactive | Learning About Language
3 | Grades 1 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
4 | Grades 3 – 5 | Printout | Assessment Tool
Editing Checklist for Self- and Peer Editing
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 – 5 | Student Interactive | Learning About Language
2 | Grades K – 12 | Calendar Activity | September 21
Today is the International Day of Peace.
3 | Grades 1 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
4 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
5 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing Poetry
Lesson Plans
Scaling Back to Essentials: Scaffolding Summarization With Fishbone Mapping
Students work in pairs and groups as they complete fishbone maps that highlight main ideas and relevant details from a cause-effect text and then write summaries of content area texts.
Student Interactives
This tool provides a fun and useful way to explore a variety of topics such as a character in a book, a person or place from history, or even a physical object. An excellent tool to for summarizing or as a prewriting exercise for original stories.
Behind the Scenes With Cinderella
Cinderella without castles, coaches, or ball gowns? Students use versions of Cinderella to explore how the setting of a story—time, place, and culture—affects the characters and plot.
The Webbing Tool provides a free-form graphic organizer for activities that ask students to pursue hypertextual thinking and writing.
Alliteration in Headline Poems
Students will be introduced to the term alliteration and create a headline poem consisting of 25 words that contain at least three examples of alliteration.
Students can use this online tool to print an alphabet chart or pages for an alphabet book.
What Am I? Teaching Poetry through Riddles
Students explore figurative language in poetry by reading and writing riddle poems.
Students can use this tool to learn about the elements of the hero's journey, analyze a text that follows the hero's journey pattern, or start creating a hero story of their own.
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Happily Ever After: Sharing Folk Literature With Elementary and Middle School Students
This unique text provides background about folk literature and how to use this rich genre in your classroom.
Teaching with Zooming Slideshows through Prezi
Through Prezi, a web application, students create "zooming" presentations for various purposes, such as presenting research, defending an opinion, or sharing a digital story.
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Empowering Students and Teachers with RWT
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After nineteen years of teaching high school English and German, I switched to position of media specialist at a middle school