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Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive
Venn Diagram
This interactive tool allows students to create Venn diagrams that contain two or three overlapping circles, enabling them to organize their information logically.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan
Tell Me Your Story: Video-Inspired Vocabulary Writing
Students watch a sample of artistic video clips online and respond through creative writing while using the vocabulary words they are currently studying.
Lesson Plans
Giving Voice to Students Through "This I Believe" Podcasts
Students write and record their own essays for a class blog by first completing a series of activities designed to get them thinking and writing about their experiences.
Student Interactives
The Story Map interactive is designed to assist students in prewriting and postreading activities by focusing on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution.
Recording Readers Theatre: Developing Comprehension and Fluency With Audio Texts
Students investigate audio texts of mystery stories, evaluate them in terms of both literary and audio qualities, and create Readers Theatre scripts, which they use to record their own podcasts.
Bio Cube is a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person for a biography or autobiography.
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.
Discovering Traditional Sonnet Forms
Students read sonnets, charting the poems' characteristics and using their observations to deduce traditional sonnet forms. They then write original sonnets, using a poem they have analyzed as a model.
Students use this online tool to create an alphabet chart or pages for an alphabet book.
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Professional Development |  |
Textmasters: Bringing literature circles to textbook reading across the curriculum
A fifth-grade science teacher and university researcher challenged the notion that textbook reading follows the same archaic formula: read the textbook and answer the questions at the end of the section. Together, they adapted literature circle roles to fit textbook structures, resulting in the strategy they call Textmasters. This article describes the strategy, along with the action research project that proves its efficacy in the content area middle school classroom.
Studying Literature: New Approaches to Poetry and Fiction
The book includes a variety of literary texts, along with accessible discussions and stimulating exercises to help students investigate the values, assumptions, and practices that underlie literary activity.
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Community Stories |  |
Creativity is the Key to Hook Reluctant Readers
Doris Powers | Educator | Pennsauken, NJ
As a teacher who works with high school students that struggle with reading, there have been times in my classroom when I have felt disappointed with a lesson. However, lucky for me, I have found many valuable and successful strategies, by utilizing ReadWriteThink.org. One lesson I particularly like is “Book Report Alternative: Hooking a Reader with a Book Cover” by Cassandra Love, where she provides a creative alternative to the book report. Students are given the opportunity to exhibit their ability to comprehend, interpret, and appreciate text. I believe that we need to hook reluctant readers with the joys of reading by implementing creative strategies based on their interests
