Through interactive writing, students work together and then independently to create invitation letters for a group of their peers and their families.
Teaching Audience Through Interactive Writing
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Spelling Cheerleading: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations
K - 5
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
"2-4-6-8, students will be spelling great" in this lesson that teaches the y rule for adding suffixes through cheering the spelling of words aloud, word sorts, and writing stories.
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Hey Diddle, Diddle! Generating Rhymes for Analogy-Based Phonics Instruction
1
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students practice matching rhyming words, apply phonological awareness to analogy-based phonics, and use the interactive Construct-a-Word to create rhyming words by adding a beginning consonant to a word ending.
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Magazine Redux: An Exercise in Critical Literacy
9 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
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
Lesson Plan
| 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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Identifying and Understanding the Fallacies Used in Advertising
9 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
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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Telling a Story About Me: Young Children Write Autobiographies
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Unit
Students tell their life stories in this lesson about autobiographies based on family photographs.
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Astronomy Poetry: Combining Poetry With the Content Areas
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Unit
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
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
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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Reciprocal Revision: Making Peer Feedback Meaningful
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| 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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Thundering Tall Tales: Using Read-Aloud as a Springboard to Writing
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
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.
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Phonics In Context
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
Use an engaging, authentic text to build students' knowledge of phonic elements and give them a taste of Japanese culture.
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Name Talk: Exploring Letter-Sound Knowledge in the Primary Classroom
K - 1
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students demonstrate their letter/sound knowledge by working with name cards and sharing observations about their classmates' names, giving teachers an opportunity to assess knowledge in a meaningful context.
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Show What You Know: Read, Write and Solve Math Problems
2 - 3
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
Informational texts, iPads, and interactive games, oh, my! Help students journey through multimodal texts to identify and solve real-world mathematics problems using writing and apps.
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Reading Movies and TV: Learning the "Language" of Moving-Image Texts
5 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
Introduce students to the idea that movies and TV have their own language and grammar, which gives them special ways of telling their stories.
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Create a Great Future: STEM Career Research Using Close Reading
6 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
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!
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Tell Me Your Story: Video-Inspired Vocabulary Writing
9 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Recurring Lesson
Students watch a sample of artistic video clips online and respond through creative writing while using the vocabulary words they are currently studying.
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Awareness of Alliteration: Enhancing Writing Through Mentor Texts
1
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Through this lesson, primary students strengthen their phonemic awareness while using picture books featuring alliteration as models for their own writing.
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Resumes and Cover Letters for High School Students
9 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Unit
High school students are taught how to use resumes and cover letters to highlight their skills and make them stand out, whether applying to college or for a job.
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3-2-1 Vocabulary: Learning Filmmaking Vocabulary by Making Films
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Unit
Bring the vocabulary of film to life through the processes of filmmaking. Students learn terminology and techniques simultaneously as they plan, film, and edit a short video.