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We have hundreds of standards-based lesson plans written and reviewed by educators using current research and the best instructional practices. Find the perfect one for your classroom.
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These lessons are designed to offer three to five classroom sessions with step-by-step instructions.
Grades 2 – 5 | Lesson Plan
A Schema-Building Study With Patricia Polacco
Students use the Semantic Impressions and Possible Sentences strategies to write about Patricia Polacco's books Chicken Sunday and Rechenka's Egg, complete a character study, and write using a WebQuest.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan
Teaching Point of View With Two Bad Ants
Students will be crawling all over this assignment when they use illustrations and text to learn about life from a bug’s point of view.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan
Let's Talk About Stories: Shared Discussion With Amazing Grace
Make space for critical literacy and engage students in meaningful, thoughtful discussions. Using Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman, students dig deep into themes such as prejudice, courage, and self-confidence.
Minilessons
Teach students the fundamentals by using these quick minilessons.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan
Units
Explore a unit of study through these engaging multiweek lessons.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan
Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
Recurring Lessons
Some lessons bear repeating; use these lessons daily, weekly, or monthly.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan
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Rochester, Michigan
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Standards
Every lesson plan on ReadWriteThink has been aligned not only to the IRA/NCTE Standards for the English Language Arts but to individual state standards as well.