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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
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
This selection is an informational narrative in the form of a play or Readers' Theater. The play is about a group of boys and girls who are summertime campers at the National Sea Base camp in the Florida Keys. Their adventure includes camping, snorkeling, and sailing aboard the ship. This is a new adventure for the characters in this story.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Literature
- Reading Informational Text
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- Basal Alignment Project
- Provider Set:
- Columbus District
- Author:
- Author Unknown
- Date Added:
- 09/01/2013
Students are guided through an informal exploration of nonfiction texts and child-oriented Websites, learning browsing and skimming techniques for the purpose of gathering interesting information.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Reading Informational Text
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 09/25/2013
This designed instruction looks to provide students with the tools they need to become an active participant in reading and writing. The specific focus of this one-hour OER module will be to aid learners in determining main ideas and supporting details in statements and paragraphs. Learners will be able to understand the main idea of a paragraph and identify the supporting details that promote the main point.
- Subject:
- Reading Informational Text
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Author:
- John Settlemyer
- Date Added:
- 04/26/2019
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
This informational text describes how paleontologists continue to investigate unanswered questions about dinosaurs.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Literature
- Reading Informational Text
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- Basal Alignment Project
- Provider Set:
- Cincinnati District
- Author:
- T.V. Padma
- Date Added:
- 09/01/2013
In this informational text, elementary school readers learn about the difference between weather and climate and about components of the climate system. The text can be used to practice visualizing and other comprehension strategies. Available in K-2 and 3-5 grade bands and as an illustrated book as well as a text document, the story appears in the online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Education
- Reading Informational Text
- Chemistry
- Physics
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Reading
- Teaching/Learning Strategy
- Provider:
- Ohio State University
- Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
- Provider Set:
- Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle
- Author:
- Jessica Fries-Gaither
- National Science Foundation
- Date Added:
- 05/30/2012
Students explore their towns' landmarks, symbols, and people; look at brochures and other informational tools; practice writing for a specific audience and revising; and work collaboratively to create a brochure.
- Subject:
- Arts and Humanities
- Reading Informational Text
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 08/23/2013
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