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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 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan
Semicolons and Swift: Analyzing Punctuation and Meaning
This lesson will help punctuation make a mark on students as they read Jonathan Swift’s work and analyze his use of punctuation.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan
Descriptive Writing and the 100th Day of School
Students write descriptions of 100th day bottles they create at home, write clues about their bottles for a guessing game, practice descriptive writing, and create a class book.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan
Swish! Pow! Whack! Teaching Onomatopoeia Through Sports Poetry
Students explore poetry about sports, looking closely at the use of onomatopoeia. After viewing a segment of a sporting event, students create their own onomatopoeic sports poems.
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 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan
Peace Poems and Picasso Doves: Literature, Art, Technology, and Poetry
Recurring Lessons
Some lessons bear repeating; use these lessons daily, weekly, or monthly.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan
Flip-a-Chip: Examining Affixes and Roots to Build Vocabulary
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Mary E. Shea, Ph.D.
Professor, Director of Graduate Literacy Programs
Buffalo, New York
Lisa Cranston
Comber, Ontario
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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.


