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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.
Standard Lessons
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These lessons are designed to offer three to five classroom sessions with step-by-step instructions.
Grades 4 – 6 | Lesson Plan
Exploring Friendship With Bridge to Terabithia
Students make predictions about Bridge to Terabithia and its characters, complete character studies, and relate the characters' experiences to their own as they identify ways to make and keep friends.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan
Critical Literacy in Action: Multimodal Texts on Global Warming
Students will really warm up to this lesson about global warming as they study multimedia materials and use a variety of comprehension strategies.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan
Press Conference for Bud, Not Buddy
Students read Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis, demonstrate comprehension of the story by involving themselves in discussions, and analyze the characters in preparation for a class "press conference."
Minilessons
Teach students the fundamentals by using these quick minilessons.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan
Units
Explore a unit of study through these engaging multiweek lessons.
Grades 7 – 12 | Lesson Plan
Recurring Lessons
Some lessons bear repeating; use these lessons daily, weekly, or monthly.
Grades 3 – 6 | Lesson Plan
Guided Comprehension: Previewing Using an Anticipation Guide
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Lisa Storm Fink
ReadWriteThink.org Project Manager
Urbana, Illinois
Shannon Alicia O'Day, Ph.D.
Middle School Language Arts Teacher of the Gifted
Marietta, Georgia
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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.


