Students use sets of words that share a spelling pattern to create a card game like "Go Fish" and then play the game in groups, helping them improve their spelling.
Spelling Patterns "Go Fish" Card Game
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Let's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for English-Language Learners
K - 2
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| Standard Lesson
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.
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Improve Comprehension: A Word Game Using Root Words and Affixes
6 - 8
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| Standard Lesson
Students study common root words and affixes, improve their comprehension and spelling, and make a card game in which they form words with a prefix, root word, and suffix.
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Crit Lit for Kids: From Critical Consciousness to Service Learning
6 - 8
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Students take their ideas from the classroom page to the community pavement when they participate in a service-learning project based on their multimedia presentations.
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Writers' Workshop: The Biographical Sketch
3 - 5
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Students use the faces and places they learn about in their research to write a biography about a contemporary or historical figure.
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Becoming History Detectives Using Shakespeare's Secret
6 - 8
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| Standard Lesson
Is the case closed on the authorship of Shakespeare's plays? Student history detectives explore the evidence for and against one of the possible alternatives, Edward deVere, using the novel Shakespeare's Secret plus a variety of online sources.
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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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Guided Comprehension in Action: Teaching Summarizing With the Bio-Cube
6 - 8
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| Recurring Lesson
Students learn the ins and outs of writing biographies by researching a contemporary or historical figure and writing a summary.
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Read a Song: Using Song Lyrics for Reading and Writing
K - 2
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| Standard Lesson
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.
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Empowered Fiction Writers: Generating and Organizing Ideas for Story Writing
6 - 8
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| Standard Lesson
Do their minds go blank when they confront a blank piece of paper? Speedwriting can help students get started on writing and come up with topics to write about. They can then incorporate their key ideas and phrases into a narrative with the help of a graphic story organizer.
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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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Whose Shoes? Using Artifacts to Teach Reading and Rhyming Patterns
1 - 2
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| Standard Lesson
If the shoe fits… Actually, any shoe will fit this lesson, and the Artifact Analysis Questions provided will help students see it in a whole new way. Several rhyming texts take the shoe theme a step further, and introduce activities to increase students' awareness of rhyming words.
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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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Get Cooking With Words! Creating a Recipe Using Procedural Writing
3 - 5
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| Standard Lesson
Students participate in read-alouds of books that exemplify effective word choice, explore how to choose words to best communicate an idea, and then write explicit instructions for a recipe.
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Casting Shadows Across Literacy and Science
K - 2
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| Standard Lesson
Shadows, shadows, everywhere! In this lesson, students read fiction, informational text, and poetry about shadows to extend their knowledge of the concept before casting their own shadow poetry.
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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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Analyzing Character Development in Three Short Stories About Women
9 - 12
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Students read three short stories about women; discuss the development of female characters, gender differences, and society's expectations; and write scripts in which the characters discuss their similarities and differences.
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History Comes Alive: Developing Fluency and Comprehension Using Social Studies
2 - 5
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Let the power of imagination and inference serve as a "time machine" to bring Benjamin Franklin into the classroom! History and science come to life in a dialogue with Franklin the inventor, developed through lesson activities that incorporate research, imagination, writing, visual arts, and drama.
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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.