This assignment will go viral with students as they think about the meanings of words and images in public service announcements from YouTube before creating a PSA of their own.
MyTube: Changing the World With Video Public Service Announcements
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BioBags: Linking Literature and Life
3 - 5
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| Standard Lesson
Students create BioBags, a collection of texts that mark special times in their lives. BioBags provide a way for students to share a variety of events and texts.
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Blogging With Photovoice: Sharing Pictures in an Integrated Classroom
9 - 12
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| Standard Lesson
Make the most of your students' diverse ability levels and experience with a prewriting activity in which they describe an abstract idea using blogging and photographs that they have taken.
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Shared Experiences, Individual Impressions: Buddies Create PowerPoint Stories
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Recurring Lesson
Stories and snapshots of school-related experiences are the perfect sources of inspiration for students as they create PowerPoint presentations with the help of an older student.
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Comparing a Literary Work to Its Film Interpretation
9 - 12
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| Standard Lesson
Students will really get into the swing of things as they analyze the text and film versions of Edgar Allan Poe's story, "The Pit and the Pendulum."
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Crit Lit for Kids: From Critical Consciousness to Service Learning
6 - 8
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Students take their ideas from the classroom page to the community pavement when they participate in a service-learning project based on their multimedia presentations.
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Read a Song: Using Song Lyrics for Reading and Writing
K - 2
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| Standard Lesson
This lesson will be music to the students' ears when they hear that they get to read song lyrics and compose original lyrics for a familiar song.
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Developing Story Structure With Paper-Bag Skits
6 - 8
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Lights, camera, action, and a bit of mystery! In this lesson, students use mystery props in a skit bag to create and perform in short, impromptu skits.
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Zines for Kids: Multigenre Texts About Media Icons
3 - 5
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Special edition! Students use ReadWriteThink tools to create magazines about prominent figures using a variety of writing genres and styles.
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Writing a Movie: Summarizing and Rereading a Film Script
3 - 5
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| Standard Lesson
Lights! Camera! Action! In this lesson, students view a scene with no dialogue from E.T., write a script for that scene, and perform a dramatic reading while the scene plays.
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Phonics Through Literature: Learning About the Letter M
K - 1
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students learn about phonics by focusing on the letter m and participating in an integrated array of activities, including reading, writing, mathematics, music, art, and technology.
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Readers Theatre
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Recurring Lesson
Students develop scripts, perform, and use their voices to depict characters from texts, giving them the opportunity to develop fluency and further enhance comprehension of what they are reading.
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QARs + Tables = Successful Comprehension of Math Word Problems
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Using census data for an example, students use the question-answer relationship (QAR) strategy to understand and solve word problems that refer to tables and other graphics.
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Lights, Camera, Action: Interviewing a Book Character
6 - 8
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Students get the inside scoop on a story when they create interview questions and answers for characters in the books they read.
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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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Compare and Contrast Electronic Text With Traditionally Printed Text
6 - 8
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| Standard Lesson
Students become familiar with the similarities and differences between electronic and printed text by comparing the textual aids included in a textbook with those of an educational website.
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In the Poet's Shoes: Performing Poetry and Building Meaning
6 - 8
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Students take poetic license when they interpret William Carlos William's poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" to help create a poem of their own.
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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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Media Literacy: Examining the World of Television Teens
6 - 8
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| Standard Lesson
Pop culture and the classroom collide in this lesson when students go behind the scenes to analyze a television series for characterization to use in an original television show proposal.
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Music and Me: Visual Representations of Lyrics to Popular Music
9 - 12
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Students will whistle while they work on this lesson, creating a photomontage movie of their interpretation of a favorite song's lyrics that will end everyone's day on a high note.