Students really get into character in this lesson as they act out the parts of a script and analyze character motivations and dialogue.
Plotting a Plan to Improve Writing: Using Plot Scaffolds
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Descriptive Video: Using Media Technology to Enhance Writing
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students will have a roaring good time when they watch a scene from The Lion King as a way to compare standard and described programming media.
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What Are My Rights? Exploring and Writing About the Constitution
9 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Students speak up in this lesson about rights, examining the Constitution in the context of issues that affect their everyday lives.
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I've Got It Covered! Creating Magazine Covers to Summarize Texts
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
Start the presses! Catchy titles, eye-popping graphics, and attractive fonts are all on students' agendas in this lesson as they create magazine covers to summarize a topic.
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That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme Court
9 - 12
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| Unit
Students have the right to have fun in this lesson in which they create a PowerPoint presentation about civil rights and the Supreme Court.
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To, Too, or Two: Developing an Understanding of Homophones
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
The classroom becomes a stage in this interactive lesson in which students sing, act, and design comic strips to learn the meanings and spellings of common homophones.
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I've Got the Literacy Blues
9 - 12
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| Unit
Students will be singing the blues in this lesson in which they identify themes from "The Gift of the Magi" and write and present blues poetry based on those themes.
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Exploring Disability Using Multimedia and the B-D-A Reading Strategy
9 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
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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Figurative Language: Teaching Idioms
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
It's raining cats and dogs! Students explore figurative language through read-alouds, teacher modeling, and student-centered activities, further developing their understanding of the literal versus the metaphorical translations of idioms.
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The Big Green Monster Teaches Phonics in Reading and Writing
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Standard Lesson
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
Lesson Plan
| Unit
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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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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Weather: A Journey in Nonfiction
K - 2
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| Unit
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
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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Teaching Point of View With Two Bad Ants
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| 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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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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| Unit
Students tell their life stories in this lesson about autobiographies based on family photographs.
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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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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.