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- Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Unit
That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme Court
Students have the right to have fun in this lesson in which they create a PowerPoint presentation about civil rights and the Supreme Court. - Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Unit
The Passion of Punctuation
Using published writers' texts and students' own writing, this unit explores emotions that are associated with the artful and deliberate use of commas, semicolons, colons, and exclamation points (end-stop marks of punctuation). - Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Unit
The Ten-Minute Play: Encouraging Original Response to Challenging Texts
Students use both analytical and creative skills to adapt passages from a novel with significant internal dialogue and conflict, such as Toni Morrison's Beloved, into a ten-minute play. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Thrills! Chills! Using Scary Stories to Motivate Students to Read
Students examine story elements through teacher read-alouds and independent reading and then use reader-response journals and graphic organizers to prepare for the creation of their own scary stories. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Traveling the Road to Freedom Through Research and Historical Fiction
Students learn how to walk a mile in someone else's shoes by reading historical fiction about the Underground Railroad. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Voting! What's It All About?
Students explore a variety of sources for information about voting. They evaluate the information to determine if it is fact or opinion, and then create a graffiti wall about voting. - Classroom Resources | Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Weather: A Journey in Nonfiction
Questions about weather clear up when students use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
When I Was Young In...A Literature to Language Experience
Past meets present in this lesson in which students practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Writers' Workshop: The Biographical Sketch
Students use the faces and places they learn about in their research to write a biography about a contemporary or historical figure. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Zines for Kids: Multigenre Texts About Media Icons
Special edition! Students use ReadWriteThink tools to create magazines about prominent figures using a variety of writing genres and styles.