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1 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
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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 1 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
2 | Grades K – 12 | Calendar Activity | September 21
Today is the International Day of Peace.
3 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose
4 | Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
5 | Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing Poetry
Lesson Plans
Strategic Reading and Writing: Summarizing Antislavery Biographies
Antislavery heroes are the focus of this lesson. Students research a historical figure who played a key role in the abolition of slavery, and then create a three-dimensional biographical mobile.
Student Interactives
The Fractured Fairy Tale tool encourages students to create their own fractured fairy tales.
Giving Voice to Child Laborers Through Monologues
Students present monologues in the "voice" of someone involved in child labor in England, respond to questions, and then discuss contemporary child laborers and compare them to the past.
The Persuasion Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to map out their arguments for a persuasive essay or debate.
What Am I? Teaching Poetry through Riddles
Students explore figurative language in poetry by reading and writing riddle poems.
The Mystery Cube helps students identify and summarize story elements in this popular genre. It can be used as a postreading or prewriting activity.
Swish! Pow! Whack! Teaching Onomatopoeia Through Sports Poetry
Students explore poetry about sports, looking closely at the use of onomatopoeia. After viewing a segment of a sporting event, students create their own onomatopoeic sports poems.
Useful for a wide variety of reading and writing activities, this outlining tool allows students to organize up to five levels of information.
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Creating Lifelong Readers Through Independent Reading
This book provides information on the benefits of independent reading, how to set up a classroom library, and ways to actively engage students in independent reading.
Beyond Voices of Readers: Students on School's Effects on Reading
This article summarizes and explicates research on 272 twelfth-grade students' reading autobiographies. Cope quotes from some noteworthy comments and makes some suggestions on how teachers and schools might do a better job of teaching literature.
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