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.
Creating a Classroom Newspaper
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Spelling Cheerleading: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations
K - 5
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| 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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Weather: A Journey in Nonfiction
K - 2
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Questions about weather clear up when students use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class.
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Magazine Redux: An Exercise in Critical Literacy
9 - 12
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| 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
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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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Teaching Point of View With Two Bad Ants
3 - 5
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| Standard Lesson
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
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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Going on a Shape Hunt: Integrating Math and Literacy
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students participate in a scavenger hunt for shapes; reading, writing, and discussion of shapes encourage literacy and math skills.
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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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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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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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Applying Question-Answer Relationships to Pictures
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| 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.
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Thundering Tall Tales: Using Read-Aloud as a Springboard to Writing
3 - 5
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| 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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Timelines and Texts: Motivating Students to Read Nonfiction
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
In an effort to help motivate students to read nonfiction, students are challenged to use a timeline to help them name the year when certain products were invented.
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Creative Communication Frames: Discovering Similarities between Writing and Art
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Graphic organizers assist the development of comparative vocabulary and generate discussions of analogy and metaphor in art as students go on a real or virtual tour of an art gallery.
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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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Finding Solutions to Food Waste: Persuasion in a Digital World
7 - 9
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Using various reading strategies and resources, students explore the issue of food waste. They also create persuasive arguments and blog posts examining this topic.
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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.