What does the world look like through a javelina's eyes? Students become javelinas in this lesson when they analyze a character and write from his or her perspective.
Using Writing and Role-Play to Engage the Reluctant Writer
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Exploring Cross-Age Tutoring Activities With Lewis and Clark
9 - 12
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Interaction and adventure draws high school and elementary school students together as they analyze stories about the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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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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Mind Pictures: Strategies That Enhance Mental Imagery While Reading
6 - 8
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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 Classifying Verbs in Context
3 - 5
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| Minilesson
The interactive read-aloud in this lesson helps students to identify and classify the three verb typesaction, state-of-being or linking, and helping verbs.
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Peer Edit With Perfection: Effective Strategies
3 - 5
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Students take a fresh look at the revision process and help one another polish their written work through a peer-editing strategy that is simple, systematic, and constructive.
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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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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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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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Q is for Duck: Using Alphabet Books With Struggling Writers
3 - 5
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A is for zoo? Q is for duck? The alphabet as students know it is transformed when students create a class book that contains clever associations for each letter of the alphabet.
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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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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.