Skip to main content
ReadWriteThink - Powered by NCTE
  • About
  • Classroom Resources
    • Lesson Plans
    • Teaching Comics
    • Teaching With Primary Resources
    • Calendar
    • Printouts
    • Student Interactives
  • Collections
    • Assessment
    • Authors
    • Booklists
    • Media Literacy
    • Poetry
    • Primary Sources
    • Writing
  • Professional Development
    • Strategy Guides
    • Professional Library
    • Meetings & Events
  • Join NCTE
  • Contact Us
  • About
  • Classroom Resources
    • Lesson Plans
    • Teaching Comics
    • Teaching With Primary Resources
    • Calendar
    • Printouts
    • Student Interactives
  • Collections
    • Assessment
    • Authors
    • Booklists
    • Media Literacy
    • Poetry
    • Primary Sources
    • Writing
  • Professional Development
    • Strategy Guides
    • Professional Library
    • Meetings & Events
  • Join NCTE
  • Contact Us
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • YouTube

Breadcrumb

  1. Home

Type

  • (-) Minilesson

Grades

  • 1 (2)
  • 2 (2)
  • 3 (1)
  • 4 (3)
  • 5 (3)
  • 6 (4)
  • 7 (4)
  • 8 (4)
  • K (2)
  • (-) 9 (6)

Learning Objectives

  • (-) writing genres (6)
  • collaboration (1)
  • Comprehension (3)
  • critical thinking (4)
  • digital literacy (1)
  • Grammar (4)
  • inquiry / research (2)
  • listening (3)
  • literary analysis (5)
  • Media literacy (4)
  • metacognition (2)
  • multimodal literacy (2)
  • reading genres (1)
  • Vocabulary (1)
  • writing process (10)

Topics

  • careers
  • nonfiction
  • poetry
The ABCs of Poetry
Grades
9 - 12
|
Lesson Plan
|
Minilesson
The ABCs of Poetry
Students examine a letter of the alphabet from all angles, creating image pools of original metaphors that they then turn into poems.
Finding Common Ground: Using Logical, Audience-Specific Arguments
Grades
9 - 12
|
Lesson Plan
|
Minilesson
Finding Common Ground: Using Logical, Audience-Specific Arguments
Using a hypothetical situation, students generate arguments from opposing points of view, discover areas of commonality using Venn diagrams, and construct logical, audience-specific arguments to persuade their opponents.
Draft Letters: Improving Student Writing through Critical Thinking
Grades
9 - 12
|
Lesson Plan
|
Minilesson
Draft Letters: Improving Student Writing through Critical Thinking
Draft letters ask students to think critically about their writing on a specific assignment before submitting their work to a reader. This lesson explains and provides models for the strategy.
Grades
9 - 12
|
Lesson Plan
|
Minilesson
Choosing the Best Verb: An Active and Passive Voice Minilesson
Students explore how active and passive voices are appropriate to different audiences. They examine online resources, and then draw conclusions about verb use, which they apply to their own writing.
Grades
9 - 12
|
Lesson Plan
|
Minilesson
Is a Sentence a Poem?
Students use their own poetry to analyze syntax, imagery, and meaning in a one-sentence poem by a canonical author to decide what makes it a poem.
Create a Great Future: STEM Career Research Using Close Reading
Grades
6 - 12
|
Lesson Plan
|
Minilesson
Create a Great Future: STEM Career Research Using Close Reading
What if students could see the relevance of their school curriculum to real-world, interesting, STEM-related careers? Let's help them create a great future!

Explore Resources by Grade

  • KindergartenK
  • 1-2
  • 3-4
  • 5-6
  • 7-8
  • 9-10
  • 11-12

RWT-logo

Powered By NCTE

Footer 1 Menu

  • About
  • Classroom Resources
  • Professional Development
  • Collections
  • Contact Us

Footer 2 Menu

  • National Council of Teachers of English
  • Contribute to RWT
  • FAQs
  • Join NCTE

Footer 3 Menu

  • Legal Notices
  • Privacy Policy
  • Promotional Materials
  • Site Demonstrations

Want to stay in touch with RWT and NCTE? Sign up here!

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • YouTube

© NCTE 2026. All rights reserved