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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 K – 2 | Lesson Plan
"Run, run, as fast as you can." Students use this refrain from The Gingerbread Man to learn letter-sound correspondence. Students use their new skills to write an online story.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan
Figurative Language: Teaching Idioms
It's raining cats and dogs! Students explore figurative language through read-alouds, teacher modeling, and student-centered activities, further developing their understanding of the literal versus the metaphorical translations of idioms.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan
With e-pals, students develop real-life writing and social experiences, learn the format of a friendly letter and parts of an e-mail message, and discover other cultures, languages, and geographic areas.
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 7 – 12 | Lesson Plan
Recurring Lessons
Some lessons bear repeating; use these lessons daily, weekly, or monthly.
Grades 4 – 6 | Lesson Plan
Guided Comprehension: Visualizing Using the Sketch-to-Stretch Strategy
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Christine Joseph, Ph.D.
Instructional Staff Developer
Tampa, Florida
Emily Manning
Instructional Specialist and Adjunct Instructor
Denton, Texas
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.
