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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 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan
Pictures Tell the Story: Improving Comprehension With Persepolis
Students get the big picture of the Middle East when they read and analyze Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel Persepolis.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan
Timelines and Texts: Motivating Students to Read Nonfiction
In an effort to help motivate students to read nonfiction, students are challenged to use a timeline to help them name the year when certain products were invented.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan
Teaching Science Through Picture Books: A Rainforest Lesson
Students read Welcome to the Green House, use note-taking strategies, find patterns in text structure, learn vocabulary in context, and write efferent and affective responses to the text.
Minilessons
Teach students the fundamentals by using these quick minilessons.
Grades 7 – 12 | Lesson Plan
Playlist for Holden: Character Analysis With Music and Lyrics
Units
Explore a unit of study through these engaging multiweek lessons.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan
A High-Interest Novel Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in Schools
Recurring Lessons
Some lessons bear repeating; use these lessons daily, weekly, or monthly.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan
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Rachel Karchmer-Klein, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Literacy Education
Newark, Delaware
Christy Simon
Educational Consultant
Urbana, Illinois
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.
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