This lesson supports third-through-sixth grade students as they communicate story setting to their readers through the use of visual image prompts. Activities include individual and cooperative learning group work, as well as whole class discussion.
Utilizing Visual Images for Creating and Conveying Setting in Written Text
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Literacy Centers: Getting Started
K - 2
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This lesson gives teachers resources and guidance to create reading, listening, computer, and poetry Literacy Centers in their own classrooms.
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Active Reading through Self-Assessment: The Student-Made Quiz
6 - 12
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This recurring lesson encourages students to comprehend their reading through inquiry and collaboration. They choose important quotations from the text and work in groups to formulate "quiz" questions that their peers will answer.
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Growing Readers and Writers with Help from Mother Goose
K
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Watch Mother Goose work her magic! This lesson uses nursery rhymes to help emergent readers remember the letters and their sounds and identify word chunks.
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Sort, Hunt, Write: A Weekly Spelling Program
3 - 5
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It's easy to make spelling fun. Using a variety of activities from sorting to using words in context will help deepen students' understanding of word patterns.
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Guided Comprehension: Evaluating Using the Meeting of the Minds Technique
3 - 5
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Based on the Guided Comprehension Model developed by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson introduces students to the strategy of evaluating, using the Meeting of the Minds technique.
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Guided Comprehension: Knowing How Words Work Using Semantic Feature Analysis
3 - 6
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Based on the Guided Comprehension Model developed by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson introduces students to the comprehension strategy of knowing how words work.
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Choosing, Chatting, and Collecting: Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy
6 - 8
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Students identify interesting words from Shakespeare's plays and add them to a classroom vocabulary collection.
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Tell Me Your Story: Video-Inspired Vocabulary Writing
9 - 12
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Students watch a sample of artistic video clips online and respond through creative writing while using the vocabulary words they are currently studying.
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Shared Experiences, Individual Impressions: Buddies Create PowerPoint Stories
K - 2
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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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Readers Theatre
3 - 5
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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.