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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 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan
Scaling Back to Essentials: Scaffolding Summarization With Fishbone Mapping
Students work in pairs and groups as they complete fishbone maps that highlight main ideas and relevant details from a cause-effect text and then write summaries of content area texts.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan
Cowboys and Castles: Interacting With Fractured Texas Tales
What do cowboy hats have to do with fairy tales? Two traditional fairy tales and their Texas-based counterparts set the stage for five different ways to respond to text.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan
A Directed Listening-Thinking Activity for "The Tell-Tale Heart"
What’s that sound? Students participate in a Directed ListeningThinking Activity (DLTA) using "The Tell-Tale Heart," make predictions, and respond in the form of an acrostic poem or comic strip.
Minilessons
Teach students the fundamentals by using these quick minilessons.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan
Units
Explore a unit of study through these engaging multiweek lessons.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan
Recurring Lessons
Some lessons bear repeating; use these lessons daily, weekly, or monthly.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan
Involving Students and Families in Ongoing Reflection and Assessment
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Sharon Roth
Director of Professional Development
Urbana, Illinois
Susanne Rubenstein
High School Teacher
Princeton, Massachusetts
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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.


