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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 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan
Finding Figurative Language in The Phantom Tollbooth
Students examine figurative language in The Phantom Tollbooth and create a chart representing the literal and figurative meanings of words and phrases.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan
Artistic Elements: Exploring Art Through Descriptive Writing
Paint a vivid picture in your reader's mind with good descriptive writing! Artwork provides the perfect starting point for practicing descriptive writing that conveys color, shape, line, and mood.
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.
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 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan
Recurring Lessons
Some lessons bear repeating; use these lessons daily, weekly, or monthly.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan
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Susan Ruckdeschel
Director of Reading and Language Arts for Edison Learning
New York, New York
Dawn Hogue
Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin
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.
