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Voting! What's It All About?
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Voting! What's It All About?
Students explore a variety of sources for information about voting. They evaluate the information to determine if it is fact or opinion, and then create a graffiti wall about voting.
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Investigating Junk Mail: Negotiating Critical Literacy at the Mailbox
Students increase their media literacy skills by critically examining and revising junk mail.
Designing Elements of Story in <i>Little Blue and Little Yellow</i>
Grades
K - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Designing Elements of Story in Little Blue and Little Yellow
In this series of four lessons, students will explore key elements of design in Little Blue and Little Yellow to learn about setting, character relationships, and plot.
Captioning the Civil Rights Movement: Reading the Images, Writing the Words
Grades
2 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Captioning the Civil Rights Movement: Reading the Images, Writing the Words
Teachers guide students to carefully view images from the Civil Rights Movement and write captions that accurately describe the images and/or their probable purposes.
Native Americans Today
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Native Americans Today
This lesson challenges students' views of Native Americans as a vanished people by asking them to compare their prior knowledge with information they gather while reading about contemporary Native Americans.
Cultural Connections and Writing for Change
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Cultural Connections and Writing for Change

A little understanding can go a long way. After learning about difficulties that Palestinian youths face, students will write a letter to an official discussing these issues.

A Musical Prompt: Postcards From the Concert
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
A Musical Prompt: Postcards From the Concert
Students won't miss a beat in this musical lesson that combines listening with personal response on a postcard.
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Creating a Classroom Newspaper
Students write authentic newspaper stories, including learning about various aspects of newspapers, such as writing an article, online articles, newspaper reading habits, and layout and design techniques.
Thundering Tall Tales: Using Read-Aloud as a Springboard to Writing
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Thundering Tall Tales: Using Read-Aloud as a Springboard to Writing
Imagination and application are key to this tall tale lesson in which students take what they know about tall tales to spin a yarn of their own.
Using Pictures to Build Schema for Social Studies Content
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Using Pictures to Build Schema for Social Studies Content
How do you read an image? Students find out in this lesson in which they "read" several images of the Boston Massacre to better understand the event and recognize effects of propaganda.
Developing Searching, Skimming, and Scanning Skills With Internet Bingo
Grades
4 - 8
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Developing Searching, Skimming, and Scanning Skills With Internet Bingo
Student pairs aim to be the first team to call out "bingo" in this lesson in which they use skimming and scanning to locate information about ancient Greece and Rome.
Zines for Kids: Multigenre Texts About Media Icons
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Zines for Kids: Multigenre Texts About Media Icons
Special edition! Students use ReadWriteThink tools to create magazines about prominent figures using a variety of writing genres and styles.
Writing a Movie: Summarizing and Rereading a Film Script
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Writing a Movie: Summarizing and Rereading a Film Script
Lights! Camera! Action! In this lesson, students view a scene with no dialogue from E.T., write a script for that scene, and perform a dramatic reading while the scene plays.
Is Superman Really All That Super? Critically Exploring Superheroes
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Is Superman Really All That Super? Critically Exploring Superheroes
What makes a superhero super? By comparing popular culture superheroes with heroic characters in children's literature, students learn to think critically about character traits, and consider how cultural perspectives influence the kinds of heroes we choose.
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
Sharing Favorite Books Using Interactive Character Trading Cards
Using selected characters from a text of their choice, students put their literary analysis skills to work by creating fictional character trading cards.
Storytelling in the Social Studies Classroom
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Unit
Storytelling in the Social Studies Classroom
People make the past come alive as students research and then share stories about famous Americans who promoted democratic ideals.
A Race With Grace: Sports Poetry in Motion
Grades
3 - 5
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Lesson Plan
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Standard Lesson
A Race With Grace: Sports Poetry in Motion
In this lesson, athletics, aesthetics, and poetics intersect in new ways as developing literacy learners experiment together with the forms of language.

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