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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
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 K – 2 | Lesson Plan
Active Reading Using The Enormous Watermelon
Using names and high-frequency words from nursery rhymes and the Big Book The Enormous Watermelon, students engage in word recognition activities such as character identification and a word matching game.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan
Students compose found and parallel poems based on a descriptive passage they have chosen from a piece of literature they are reading.
Minilessons
Teach students the fundamentals by using these quick minilessons.
Grades 6 – 8 | 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
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Kristina McLaughlin
East Palestine, Ohio
Sharan A. Gibson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
San Diego, California
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.
