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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 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 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan
Exploring Cause and Effect Using Expository Texts About Natural Disasters
Students explore the nature and structure of expository texts that focusing on cause and effect and apply what they learned using graphic organizers and writing paragraphs to outline cause-and-effect relationships.
Minilessons
Teach students the fundamentals by using these quick minilessons.
Grades 1 – 2 | Lesson Plan
Units
Explore a unit of study through these engaging multiweek lessons.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan
Compiling Poetry Collections and a Working Definition of Poetry
Recurring Lessons
Some lessons bear repeating; use these lessons daily, weekly, or monthly.
Grades 3 – 6 | Lesson Plan
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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.


