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In fifth grade unit 5, Reading Historical Fiction Book Clubs, students will be organized into reading clubs consisting of 3-5 students of similar reading levels as they read historical fiction text set made up of related historical fiction, informational text and primary sources (photographs, letters, posters etc.) How do readers read, analyze and interpret historical fiction text? to understand their historical fiction and the time period connected to the text.
Summarize a written text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
- Subject:
- Reading Literature
- Material Type:
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- Oakland Schools
- Date Added:
- 06/20/2017
V is for vocabulary. A content area unit provides the theme for a specialized ABC book, as students select, research, define, and illustrate a word for each alphabet letter.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Adapting the song "A-Hunting We Will Go," students put a "whale" in a "pail" and even "take a little "bear" and hug it if we "dare"."
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Students increase their understanding of alphabet books by participating in a variety of reading and writing activities.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 08/23/2013
This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Elements of the writing process are also included.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Interactive
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 08/19/2013
Students create acrostic poems using their names and the names of things that are important to them.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Creating an illustrated alphabet book of action words, from "attack" to "zap", reinforces the definition of verbs as it stretches and expands students' vocabulary.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Students must "become" a character in a novel in order to describe themselves and other characters using powerful adjectives.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Using names and high-frequency words from nursery rhymes and the Big Book "The Enormous Watermelon", students engage in word recognition activities such as character identification and a word matching game.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
This recurring lesson encourages students to comprehend their reading through inquiry and collaboration. They choose important quotations from the text and work in groups to formulate "quiz" questions that their peers will answer.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Given the secondary position of persons of African descent throughout their history in America, it could reasonably be argued that all efforts of creative writers from that group are forms of protest. However, for purposes of this discussion, Defining African American protest poetrysome parameters might be drawn. First—a definition. Protest, as used herein, refers to the practice within African American literature of bringing redress to the secondary status of black people, of attempting to achieve the acceptance of black people into the larger American body politic, of encouraging practitioners of democracy truly to live up to what democratic ideals on American soil mean. Protest literature consists of a variety of approaches, from the earliest literary efforts to contemporary times. These include articulating the plight of enslaved persons, challenging the larger white community to change its attitude toward those persons, and providing specific reference points for the nature of the complaints presented. In other words, the intention of protest literature was—and remains—to show inequalities among races and socio-economic groups in America and to encourage a transformation in the society that engenders such inequalities. For African Americans, Some of the questions motivating African American protest poetrythat inequality began with slavery. How, in a country that professed belief in an ideal democracy, could one group of persons enslave another? What forms of moral persuasion could be used to get them to see the error of their ways? In addition, how, in a country that professed belief in Christianity, could one group enslave persons whom Christian doctrine taught were their brothers and sisters? And the list of “hows” goes on. How could white Americans justify Jim Crow? Inequalities in education, housing, jobs, accommodation, transportation, and a host of other things? In response to these “hows,” another “how” emerged. How could writers use their imaginations and pens to bring about change in the society? Protest literature, therefore, focused on such issues and worked to rectify them. Poetry is but one of the media through which writers address such issues, as there are forms of protest fiction, drama, essays, and anything else that African Americans wrote—and write.
- Subject:
- Reading Literature
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Reading
- Author:
- National Humanities Center
- Trudier Harris
- Date Added:
- 05/03/2019
Tradition and technology come together in this lesson in which students learn about Alaskan animals through Native American tales and their own online research.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Students learn about alliteration, and then practice using alliteration in acrostic poems, tongue twisters, alphabet books, and number books.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Students will be introduced to the term alliteration and create a headline poem consisting of 25 words that contain at least three examples of alliteration.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Students compare attending a performance at The Globe Theater with attending a modern theater production or movie. They then create a commercial for an Elizabethan audience promoting a modern product.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Students write original stories using alphabetical order, beginning each page with a new letter, and then illustrate their texts in class or at home with their families.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
The traditional autobiography writing project is given a twist as students write alphabiographies - recording an event, person, object, or feeling associated with each letter of the alphabet.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
After reading Avis novel "Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?", students create an alter ego for themselves and use it to write their own radio show, modeled after the book.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Through a close reading of "Amelia Bedelia", students reread the material to discuss text-dependent questions, promoting deep thinking about the text and its characters.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Groups of students read and discuss American folklore stories, each group reading a different story. Using a jigsaw strategy, the groups compare character traits and main plot points of the stories. A diverse selection of American folk tales is used for this lesson, which is adaptable to any text set.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Popular culture provides an introduction to Shakespeare's poetic devices in this lesson, which asks students to explore an excerpt from Shakespeare's "Hamlet".
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Students create epitaphs for characters from a tragedy, such as "Hamlet".
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Students analyze images of Oscar Wilde used to publicize his 1882 American lecture tour. They then compare a caricature to another researched image, sharing this analysis in a podcast.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
It is important for students to know how to evaluate messages conveyed by the news media. Exploration of the artistic techniques used in political cartoons leads to critical questioning.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Students explore and analyze the techniques that political (or editorial) cartoonists use and draw conclusions about why the cartoonists choose those techniques to communicate their messages.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Students review the basic conventions for using quotations from literature or references from a research project, focusing on accurate punctuation and page layout, then apply the conventions to their texts.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
In this lesson, students learn to ask the right questions about the validity of surveys.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Theres no question that students will be able to compose good survey questions by the end of this lesson.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Supporting inquiry-based research projects, the Animal Inquiry interactive invites elementary students to explore animal facts and habitats using writing prompts to guide and record their findings.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Interactive
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 08/19/2013
Following the traditional form of the haiku, students publish their own haikus using Animoto, an online web tool that creates slideshows that blend text and music.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Students analyze World War II posters, as a group and then independently, to explore how argument, persuasion and propaganda differ.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Cover Sheet
Teacher Examples
Template
- Subject:
- Composition and Rhetoric
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Author:
- Christine Sudyn
- Date Added:
- 07/09/2019
What drives changes to classic myths and fables? In this lesson students evaluate the changes Disney made to the myth of "Hercules" in order to achieve their audience and purpose.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Students explore using electronic messaging and Internet abbreviations for specific purposes and examine the importance of using a more formal style of writing based on their audience.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Students keep a daily diary that records how and when they listen to audio texts, then analyze the details and compare their results to published reports on American radio listeners.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Turn summer reading lists from a teacher-centered requirement to a student-driven exploration by asking students to create brochures and flyers that suggest books to explore during the summer months.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
'Reading between the lines' can be as crucial to comprehension as understanding the words on the page. Through guided author studies, students experience the benefits and the limitations of inference.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 08/23/2013
This lesson uses "One Green Apple" by Eve Bunting to teach how characters change across a text. It will also guide students through writing an epilogue to accompany their independent book.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
Students examine familiar car names for underlying connotations then proceed through a series of steps, increasing their control over language, until they select words with powerful connotations in their own writing.
- Subject:
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013