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Lesson Plans
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 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.
Grade K | Lesson Plan
Introducing the Venn Diagram in the Kindergarten Classroom
In this lesson, kindergarten students manipulate hula hoops and real objects, as they use Venn diagrams to problem solve, explore, and record information to share with others.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan
Website Planning in a Bilingual Classroom
Students complete a family survey and plan a website to share the responses, increasing their understanding and appreciation of their own families and cultures, and their classmates as well.
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 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan
Making It Visual for ELL Students: Teaching History Using Maus
Recurring Lessons
Some lessons bear repeating; use these lessons daily, weekly, or monthly.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan
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Our Authors |  |
Rachel Karchmer-Klein, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Literacy Education
Newark, Delaware
Scott Filkins
Literacy Coach
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.
