Interaction and adventure draws high school and elementary school students together as they analyze stories about the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Exploring Cross-Age Tutoring Activities With Lewis and Clark
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Magazine Redux: An Exercise in Critical Literacy
9 - 12
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Paper and pixels get compared in this lesson in which students compare both printed and online versions of a magazine.
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Analyzing the Purpose and Meaning of Political Cartoons
9 - 12
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| Standard Lesson
It is important for students to know how to evaluate messages conveyed by the news media. Exploration of the artistic techniques used in political cartoons leads to critical questioning.
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Mind Pictures: Strategies That Enhance Mental Imagery While Reading
6 - 8
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| Standard Lesson
Students create mental images while reading using a three-pronged approach: developing schemata and visual awareness; Watch-Read-Watch-Read (W-R-W-R), using video clips; and a strategy similar to the think-aloud approach.
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What Did They Say? Dialect in The Color Purple
9 - 12
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Y'all set down a spell and learn ‘bout dialects!" In other words, your students will use The Color Purple to explore dialect and how it reveals information about the characters.
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Teaching Point of View With Two Bad Ants
3 - 5
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Students will be crawling all over this assignment when they use illustrations and text to learn about life from a bug's point of view.
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Identifying and Understanding the Fallacies Used in Advertising
9 - 12
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Students examine the fallacies that surround them every day, deconstruct fallacious images and messages in advertisements, and demonstrate their understanding of the fallacies through multimedia presentations.
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Diagram It! Identifying, Comparing, and Writing About Nonfiction Texts
K - 2
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Students compare the traits fact and fiction by using a Venn diagram to compare fiction and nonfiction books about Native Americans.
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Using Historical Fiction to Learn About the Civil War
3 - 5
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Students in grades 4 and 5 discuss inferential comprehension and visualization as they use a think-aloud questioning strategy to develop a deeper understanding of a historical novel.
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Fact or Fiction: Learning About Worms Using Diary of a Worm
K - 2
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| Standard Lesson
Students often believe that fiction writers make everything up, seldom realizing how research worms its way into entertaining writing. In this lesson, students read Diary of a Worm to find out how fact merges with fiction.
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Word Maps: Developing Critical and Analytical Thinking About Literary Characters
9 - 12
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| Standard Lesson
Students read "After Twenty Years" by O. Henry, use a word map to identify characters' qualities or traits, discuss the characters' feelings and actions, and reflect upon these in journals.
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Telling a Story About Me: Young Children Write Autobiographies
K - 2
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Students tell their life stories in this lesson about autobiographies based on family photographs.
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Readers Theatre With Jan Brett
1 - 2
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Students in grades 1-2 use Jan Brett's Hedgie's Surprise for a Readers Theatre experience.
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Astronomy Poetry: Combining Poetry With the Content Areas
6 - 8
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Students' responses to this lesson will be out of this world after they've researched astronomy to write poetry and compile a poetry book.
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Questioning: A Comprehension Strategy for Small-Group Guided Reading
3 - 5
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| Standard Lesson
Students learn about the process of questioning and using webs to organize information during reading and then practice writing factual and inferential questions.
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Reciprocal Revision: Making Peer Feedback Meaningful
6 - 8
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| Standard Lesson
Interpreting art is a subjective process. In this lesson, students write written responses analyzing a work of art and use feedback from their peers to revise or confirm their initial responses.
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Junie B. Jones Introduces Literacy Mystery Boxes
K - 2
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Like Junie B. Jones, students will be saying "Wait till you hear this" after listening to a Junie B. story and creating mystery boxes to help retell the story.
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You Can't Spell the Word Prefix Without a Prefix
6 - 8
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| Standard Lesson
Students explore the role of prefixes, as well as their origins and meanings, and examine how the understanding of prefixes can improve comprehension, decoding, and spelling.
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A High-Interest Novel Helps Struggling Readers Confront Bullying in Schools
9 - 12
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Students read a work of realistic fiction about bullying and gain understanding through writing, Readers Theatre, and discussion.
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Applying Question-Answer Relationships to Pictures
3 - 5
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| Standard Lesson
A picture is worth a thousand words as students are guided in viewing wordless picture books and responding to four different types of questions about the images they see.