Cinderella without castles, coaches, or ball gowns? Students use versions of Cinderella to explore how the setting of a storytime, place, and cultureaffects the characters and plot.
Behind the Scenes With Cinderella
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Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading Strategy
9 - 12
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History takes on new dimensions in this interactive multimedia lesson that emphasizes the B-D-A approach to research as students investigate the experiences of people with disabilities since the early 1800s.
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Discovering a Passion for Poetry With Langston Hughes
9 - 12
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Through a study of Langston Hughes' poetry, students connect his writing to his place in history.
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The Big Green Monster Teaches Phonics in Reading and Writing
K - 2
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A big green monster helps students build their reading fluency and word recognition skills through choral reading, literacy center activities, and writing stories.
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Creating a Classroom Newspaper
3 - 5
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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.
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Guided Comprehension: Evaluating Using the Meeting of the Minds Technique
3 - 5
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Based on the Guided Comprehension Model developed by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson introduces students to the strategy of evaluating, using the Meeting of the Minds technique.
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Teaching Audience Through Interactive Writing
K - 2
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Through interactive writing, students work together and then independently to create invitation letters for a group of their peers and their families.
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Guided Comprehension: Knowing How Words Work Using Semantic Feature Analysis
3 - 6
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Based on the Guided Comprehension Model developed by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson introduces students to the comprehension strategy of knowing how words work.
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Guided Comprehension: Summarizing Using the QuIP Strategy
3 - 6
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Students learn to use the QuIP (questions into paragraphs) comprehension strategy to organize information and then synthesize it in writing.
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Guided Comprehension: Monitoring Using the INSERT Technique
4 - 6
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Based on the Guided Comprehension Model developed by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson introduces students to the comprehension strategy of monitoring.
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Guided Comprehension: Previewing Using an Anticipation Guide
3 - 6
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Based on the Guided Comprehension Model developed by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson introduces students to the comprehension strategy of previewing.
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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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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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Critical Reading: Two Stories, Two Authors, Same Plot?
9 - 12
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Students make predictions about the stories and analyze story elements, compare and contrast the different stories, distinguish between fact and opinion, and draw conclusions supported by evidence from their readings.
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Analyzing the Purpose and Meaning of Political Cartoons
9 - 12
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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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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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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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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.