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.
Read a Song: Using Song Lyrics for Reading and Writing
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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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Safety Tips With Officer Buckle and Gloria
K - 2
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| Standard Lesson
Safety first! In this lesson, students take the lessons taught by Officer Buckle and Gloria to heart as they explore safety in everyday situations.
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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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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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E-pals Around the World
6 - 8
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| Standard Lesson
With e-pals, students develop real-life writing and social experiences, learn the format of a friendly letter and parts of an e-mail message, and discover other cultures, languages, and geographic areas.
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Using Prediction as a Prereading Strategy
3 - 5
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| Standard Lesson
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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| Standard Lesson
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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| Standard Lesson
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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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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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.
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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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Protecting Our Precious Planet: Sharing the Message of Earth Day
K - 2
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| Standard Lesson
Students discover that they can make a world of difference when they participate in the online Earth Day bag program.