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- Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 7 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Strategic Reading and Writing: Summarizing Antislavery Biographies
Antislavery heroes are the focus of this lesson. Students research a historical figure who played a key role in the abolition of slavery, and then create a three-dimensional biographical mobile.
- Classroom Resources | Grades 7 – 10 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
The Blog of Anne Frank?: Taking on Social Roles through Online Writing
Anne Frank shared her experiences through a private diary that became public as a book. In this lesson, students will consider how writing creates social identities as they blog about a political issue. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
The Connection Between Poetry and Music
Students won't miss a beat in this reading fluency lesson that combines music and poetry. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
The Two Voices of the ow Spelling Pattern
Variable vowels are the focus of this lesson; students use nursery rhymes and ow to study how vowels can change their sounds according to different spelling patterns. - Classroom Resources | Grades 8 – 11 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
"Three Stones Back": Using Informational Text to Enhance Understanding of Ball Don't Lie
Students engage in a close reading of a passage from Matt de la Pena's novel Ball Don't Lie before researching important background information to assess the accuracy of the claims made by a character. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Timelines and Texts: Motivating Students to Read Nonfiction
In an effort to help motivate students to read nonfiction, students are challenged to use a timeline to help them name the year when certain products were invented. - Classroom Resources | Grades 8 – 10 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Understanding Irony
This lesson enables students to define the three types of irony, identify and differentiate among examples of the types of irony, and demonstrate their understanding of each type. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Using THIEVES to Preview Nonfiction Texts
Students become "thieves" in this lesson as they use a previewing strategy to "steal" information from textbooks and other nonfiction texts before actually reading them. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Using Tiered Companion Texts to Comprehend Complex Nonfiction Texts
Students progress through increasingly difficult tiered texts to gain the necessary background knowledge and problem-solving skills to comprehend complex nonfiction texts. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Vote for Me! Making Presidential Commercials Using Avatars
After researching political platforms of past presidents through primary sources and other resources, students create commercials for these presidents using Voki, an online web tool that produces speaking avatars.