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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 1 – 2 | Lesson Plan
Choosing One Word: Summarizing Shel Silverstein’s “Sick”
Students select what they believe to be the most important word in a text that they have read and justify their choice using examples from the text.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan
Getting the ig in Pig: Helping Children Discover Onset and Rime
Students will need their language-building hard hats as they construct words using onset and rime, building vocabulary and phonics comprehension.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan
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.
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 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 K – 2 | Lesson Plan
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Junius Wright
High School Teacher
Charleston, South Carolina
Erica "Ricki" Berg
High School English Teacher
Vernon, Connecticut
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.