Students will really warm up to this lesson about global warming as they study multimedia materials and use a variety of comprehension strategies.
Critical Literacy in Action: Multimodal Texts on Global Warming
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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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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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Inspire Healthful Reading Using Unconventional Texts
K - 2
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| Minilesson
This minilesson encourages children to seek out and appropriately react to nutrition labels and to make healthy food choices, integrating science, math, health, and literacy.
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Engineering the Perfect Poem by Using the Vocabulary of STEM
7 - 10
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| Standard Lesson
Students research engineering careers and create poetry to understand the vocabulary of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).
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The Big, Bad Wolf...Is This a Fact?
6 - 8
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Reading is revamped in this lesson in which students use a multimedia approach to study the books by Seymour Simon.
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Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
6 - 8
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Striking images can leave lasting impressions on viewers. In this lesson, students make textselfworld connections to a nature- or science-related topic as they collaboratively design a multimedia presentation.
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Reading Informational Texts Using the 3-2-1 Strategy
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students can count on using the 3-2-1 strategy to help them successfully comprehend and write about an informational text.