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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Audience & Purpose: Evaluating Disney's Changes to the Hercules Myth
(View Complete Item Description)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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BOOKMATCH: Scaffolding Independent Book Selection
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson will be turning heads and pages as students learn how to choose appropriate books for independent reading exercises and later evaluate their choices.
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Compare & Contrast Map
(View Complete Item Description)The Compare & Contrast Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for different kinds of comparison essays.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Interactive
Enchanting Readers with Revisionist Fairy Tales
(View Complete Item Description)Students examine three examples of revisionist fairy tales in which female characters act in empowered roles rather than behaving helpless and submissive.
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Figurative Language Flipped Classroom Lesson
(View Complete Item Description)Figurative Language Flipped Classroom Lesson
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How to Find a Theme
(View Complete Item Description)This shows how to find a theme in literature.
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I've Got It Covered! Creating Magazine Covers to Summarize Texts
(View Complete Item Description)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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Venn Diagram
(View Complete Item Description)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
When Pigs Fly: A Lesson Plan on Idioms
(View Complete Item Description)This lesson plan centers on a fun, interactive activity that allows students to explore and understand common English idioms.
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CEI: Making a Claim Citing Textual Evidence Lesson 6-8
(View Complete Item Description)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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Acrostic Poems
(View Complete Item Description)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
Action Is Character: Exploring Character Traits with Adjectives
(View Complete Item Description)Students must "become" a character in a novel in order to describe themselves and other characters using powerful adjectives.
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Alphabiography Project: Totally You
(View Complete Item Description)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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Animate that Haiku!
(View Complete Item Description)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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AstroPoetry Writing
(View Complete Item Description)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
(View Complete Item Description)Bio Cube is a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person for a biography or autobiography.
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Blending the Past with Today's Technology: Using Prezi to Prepare for Historical Fiction
(View Complete Item Description)To prepare for literature circles featuring historical novels, students research the decades of the 1930s to the 1990s and share their information using Prezi, a web application for creating multimedia presentations.
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Book Report Alternative: A Character's Letter to the Editor
(View Complete Item Description)Students write a persuasive letter to the editor of a newspaper from a selected fictional character's perspective, focusing on a specific issue or situation explored in the novel.
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Book Report Alternative: Getting Acquainted with Farcebook
(View Complete Item Description)In this alternative to the traditional book report, students report on their novel choices using Facebook-like pages.
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