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We have hundreds of standards-based lesson plans written and reviewed by educators using current research and the best instructional practices. Find the perfect one for your classroom.
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These lessons are designed to offer three to five classroom sessions with step-by-step instructions.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan
Teaching Point of View With Two Bad Ants
Students will be crawling all over this assignment when they use illustrations and text to learn about life from a bug's point of view.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan
Figurative Language: Teaching Idioms
It's raining cats and dogs! Students explore figurative language through read-alouds, teacher modeling, and student-centered activities, further developing their understanding of the literal versus the metaphorical translations of idioms.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan
Many Years Later: Responding to Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool"
Students analyze the Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "We Real Cool" and then write about how the character's pool hall days might influence who the character becomes fifty years in the future.
Minilessons
Teach students the fundamentals by using these quick minilessons.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan
Units
Explore a unit of study through these engaging multiweek lessons.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan
Once Upon a Link: A PowerPoint Adventure With Fractured Fairy Tales
Recurring Lessons
Some lessons bear repeating; use these lessons daily, weekly, or monthly.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan
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Matthew D. Brown
Canyon Country, California
Lotta C. Larson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Elementary Education
Manhattan, Kansas
Standards
Every lesson plan on ReadWriteThink has been aligned not only to the IRA/NCTE Standards for the English Language Arts but to individual state standards as well.
