Inferring How and Why Characters Change
(View Complete Item Description)Students will really get into character when they read short stories and analyze the hows and whys of character behaviors.
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Students will really get into character when they read short stories and analyze the hows and whys of character behaviors.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
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.
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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.
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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.
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In this alternative book report, students identify the elements of fiction in books they have read by creating glogs, interactive multimedia posters, and then share their glogs.
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Students write descriptions of characters, incorporate new vocabulary words, practice using simile and metaphor, engage in peer editing, and post their revised descriptions on the walls for a matching game.
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Learn about Greek gods, heroes, and creatures through digital storytelling produced by students who have learned research techniques.
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Figurative Language Flipped Classroom Lesson
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This shows how to find a theme in literature.
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Start the presses! Catchy titles, eye-popping graphics, and attractive fonts are all on students agendas in this lesson as they create magazine covers to summarize a topic.
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This interactive tool allows students to create Venn diagrams that contain two or three overlapping circles, enabling them to organize their information logically.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
This lesson plan centers on a fun, interactive activity that allows students to explore and understand common English idioms.
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This "jigsaw" activity will give students the opportunity to work in groups to summarize a 1 to 2 page informational text. It "jigsaws" down to 1 class summary and can be done in 2 or 3 days. This plan was designed for a class of 22 students but can be easily modified by varying group size.
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This is a middle school 6-8 grade lesson on CEI: Making a Claim Citing Textual Evidence. It may be used as a review lesson for the EOG assessment.
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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.
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This online tool enables students to learn about and write acrostic poems. Elements of the writing process are also included.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
Students must "become" a character in a novel in order to describe themselves and other characters using powerful adjectives.
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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.
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An activity combining language and science to encourage students to think about the night sky to help them write a poem related to astronomy.
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Bio Cube is a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person for a biography or autobiography.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive