Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by using a bilingual book to recognize unfamiliar words and construct meaning from the text.
Let's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for English-Language Learners
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Reading and Writing About Pollution to Understand Cause and Effect
3 - 5
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| Standard Lesson
Students get to write a whale of a tale when they complete a graphic organizer sequencing the journey of a mountain fish to a polluted waterway.
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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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This is My Story: Encouraging Students to Use a Unique Voice
3 - 5
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| Standard Lesson
What did the wolf think of Red Riding Hood? Once Upon a Fairy Tale offers his side of the story and more, providing vivid examples of how voice enlivens narrative. After comparing versions of the story, students apply the concept of voice to Fractured Fairy Tales and other writing activities.
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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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Reading and Writing About Whales Using Fiction and Nonfiction Texts
K - 2
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Students will have a whale of a good time in this lesson in which they use fiction and nonfiction texts to write a letter to an online scientist.
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Learning Centers: From Shared to Independent Practice
K - 2
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| Recurring Lesson
Seven blind mice—see how they spend each day of the week in this lesson that uses the book Seven Blind Mice to guide students through shared reading, writing, and listening activities.
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Using Prediction as a Prereading Strategy
3 - 5
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Students learn about and apply the prediction strategy while reading a trade book. They use response journals to record questions and responses based on prereading predictions.
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Whole-to-Parts Phonics Instruction: Teaching Letter-Sound Correspondences
K - 2
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Students will find that learning onset and rime is a handy skill when they read the Jack and Jill rhyme.
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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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Using a Predictable Text to Teach High-Frequency Words
K - 2
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After reading an engaging yet predictable text about a child looking for his cat, students use a similar format and high-frequency words to craft tales about their own lost pets.
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Alaska Native Stories: Using Narrative to Introduce Expository Text
3 - 5
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Tradition and technology come together in this lesson in which students learn about Alaskan animals through Native American tales and their own online research.
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Multimedia Responses to Content Area Topics Using Fact-"Faction"-Fiction
3 - 5
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| Standard Lesson
Students climb into the mind of a spider in this lesson that asks them to compose a spider diary using spider facts, fiction, and "faction"fiction that sounds like fact.
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Gingerbread Phonics
K - 2
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| Standard Lesson
"Run, run, as fast as you can." Students use this refrain from The Gingerbread Man to learn letter-sound correspondence. Students use their new skills to write an online story.
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Using THIEVES to Preview Nonfiction Texts
6 - 8
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| Standard Lesson
Students become "thieves" in this lesson as they use a previewing strategy to "steal" information from textbooks and other nonfiction texts before actually reading them.
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From Fact to Fiction: Drawing and Writing Stories
K - 2
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Students gather factual information about frogs and toads to create nonfiction and fiction stories. Drawing is used for prewriting.
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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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Getting the ig in Pig: Helping Children Discover Onset and Rime
K - 2
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| Standard Lesson
Students will need their language-building hard hats as they construct words using onset and rime, building vocabulary and phonics comprehension.
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Exploring World Cultures Through Folk Tales
3 - 5
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| Standard Lesson
Journey around the world with students as they read a Japanese, African, or Welsh folk tale, create a visual depiction of the tale, research the tale's culture, and present findings.
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The Two Voices of the ow Spelling Pattern
3 - 5
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| Standard Lesson
Variable vowels are the focus of this lesson; students use nursery rhymes and ow to study how vowels can change their sounds according to different spelling patterns.