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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 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.
Grades K – 5 | Lesson Plan
Spelling Cheerleading: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations
"2-4-6-8, students will be spelling great" in this lesson that teaches the y rule for adding suffixes through cheering the spelling of words aloud, word sorts, and writing stories.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan
Finding Poetry in Prose: Reading and Writing Love Poems
After reading several poems that expand the definition of love poetry, students compose found poems based on a personal memoir—either their own or a love story of another writer.
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 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan
Crit Lit for Kids: From Critical Consciousness to Service Learning
Recurring Lessons
Some lessons bear repeating; use these lessons daily, weekly, or monthly.
Grades 3 – 6 | Lesson Plan
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James Bucky Carter
Assistant Professor of English Education
El Paso, Texas
Sharon B. Kletzien, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita
West Chester, Pennsylvania
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.
