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- Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Focusing Reader Response Through Vocabulary Analysis
Students suggest and categorize words that they associate with a novel they have recently read, ranging from details about the plot to feelings about a character. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Highlighting Out-of-School Language Expertise with Pop Culture Dictionaries
Students compose dictionary entries for words and phrases from pop culture texts (e.g., television shows, movies, lyrics, YouTube videos), connecting their definitions to their personal use of the terms. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Improve Comprehension: A Word Game Using Root Words and Affixes
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. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Internalization of Vocabulary Through the Use of a Word Map
Students practice with words and develop both definitional and contextual knowledge through two agents—purposeful sequencing of steps and collaboration with peers. - Classroom Resources | Grades 4 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Minilesson
Loaded Words: Vocabulary That Packs a Punch in Persuasive Writing
In this minilesson, students practice identifying and purposefully using vocabulary in persuasive writing that is intended to have an emotional impact on the reader. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
More than One Way to Create Vivid Verbs
This lesson teaches students how to use old verbs in a new way, thus creating new and fresh descriptive phrases. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Persuading the Principal: Writing Persuasive Letters About School Issues
Students learn that you don't have to raise your voice to raise a point. Writing a persuasive letter to your principal is a great way to get your opinions heard. - Classroom Resources | Grades 7 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Picture This: Student Created Online Vocabulary Flashcards
Let the students be the vocabulary experts! Prior to whole class instruction, students create online flashcards and teach the class the new vocabulary. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Reading and Writing Workshop: Freak the Mighty
Students use a variety of reading and writing strategies as they read Rodman Philbrick's Freak the Mighty.
- Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan
Reading Through Different Lenses: Making Text Connections Across the Curriculum
Students learn to comprehend the linguistic text styles of different content areas and use the interactive ReadWriteThink Notetaker tool as the teacher models the exercise.