Use an engaging, authentic text to build students' knowledge of phonic elements and give them a taste of Japanese culture.
Phonics In Context
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Show What You Know: Read, Write and Solve Math Problems
2 - 3
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| Minilesson
Informational texts, iPads, and interactive games, oh, my! Help students journey through multimodal texts to identify and solve real-world mathematics problems using writing and apps.
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Poetry Plus! Creating 21st Century Poems with Web Tools
3 - 5
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| Minilesson
This lesson encourages students to immerse themselves in poetry as they share their original poems orally and digitally with published poets and peers nationwide.
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Reading Movies and TV: Learning the "Language" of Moving-Image Texts
5 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
Introduce students to the idea that movies and TV have their own language and grammar, which gives them special ways of telling their stories.
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Create a Great Future: STEM Career Research Using Close Reading
6 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
What if students could see the relevance of their school curriculum to real-world, interesting, STEM-related careers? Let's help them create a great future!
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Bringing Economic Vocabulary to Life Through Video Posters
2 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
Imagine if vocabulary could come alive with the click of a button! Students create video posters to demonstrate knowledge of new economics vocabulary.
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Inspire Healthful Reading Using Unconventional Texts
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
This minilesson encourages children to seek out and appropriately react to nutrition labels and to make healthy food choices, integrating science, math, health, and literacy.
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Digital Word Detectives: Building Vocabulary With e-Book Readers
2 - 6
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
Students in grades 2-6 use digital dictionaries and other e-book tools to learn new vocabulary as they read e-books on digital reading devices.
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Loaded Words: Vocabulary That Packs a Punch in Persuasive Writing
4 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
In this minilesson, students practice identifying and purposefully using vocabulary in persuasive writing that is intended to have an emotional impact on the reader.
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Creating a Feast for the Senses With Mentor Texts
3 - 6
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
This lesson teaches intermediate students to "use the experts" to learn how to revise to create sharp, sensory-rich experiences for their readers.
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Playlist for Holden: Character Analysis With Music and Lyrics
7 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
Students compile a playlist of 10 songs representing a literary character and explain their choices based on the book's dialogue, plot, conflict, and resolution.
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What's Under the Slide? Making Inferences Using Microscopes
3 - 5
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
Students hone their critical thinking skills by learning how to make inferences from textual clues.
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Phonic Generalizations in Chrysanthemum
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
Students learn about word families by reading Kevin Henkes's book Chrysanthemum, identifying words with certain vowel pair endings, and reading words with similar endings.
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Using the Check and Line Method to Enhance Reading Comprehension
6 - 8
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
Do your students skim assigned text material without even engaging their brains? The Check and Line method encourages students to think about what they are reading and monitor their own comprehension of the information.
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Word Wizards: Students Making Words
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
The Word Wizard activities in this lesson transform phonics from drudgery into delight! Students manipulate letters to make different words.
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What's My Subject? A Subject-Verb Agreement Minilesson
9 - 12
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
Students explore subject–verb agreement using real-life examples and then talk about the difference between formal and informal language and how to use this important grammatical rule.
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Using Folk Tales: Vowel Influences on the Letter G
K - 2
Lesson Plan
| Minilesson
Gentle, gigantic, gracefuldo these g words describe the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk? Students will explore the hard and soft g sounds by studying fairy tales and animals.