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ALEX Lesson Plans
Thinkfinity Lesson Plans
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Let's Build a Snowman
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Description: In this lesson, students use both fiction and nonfiction texts, the Internet, and a K-W-L chart to learn about how animals survive the winter.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Write letters that make things happen!
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Description: In a small group or as individuals, students write letters related to a unit of study or particular topic they have studied.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: The Beverly Cleary Sculpture Garden was dedicated on October 13, 1995.
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Description: Students select characters that they believe are the most memorable from Cleary's books and write short persuasive essays to explain their choices.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 1,2,3,4,5,6
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Two Thumbs Up! Get Students Writing and Publishing Book Reviews
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Description: Students evaluate book reviews written by other children, discussing their components and effectiveness, and write reviews of favorite books to record on video or post online.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2,3
Subject: Language Arts
Title: A Bear of a Poem: Composing and Performing Found Poetry
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Description: Children find favorite words, phrases, and sentences from familiar stories. Working together, they combine their words and phrases to create a poem. The poem is then shared as performance poetry.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Play with Words: Rhyme and Verse
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Description: In this unit of six lessons, from EDSITEment, students use their senses to experience poetry. Students listen to poems and rhymes, clap out syllables, and sing along with familiar tunes. They also use puppets and crafts to help recall and retell favorite poems. Finally, students experience the joy of crafting their own original poems.
Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEment
Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: From Fact to Fiction: Drawing and Writing Stories
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Description: Students gather factual information about frogs and toads to create nonfiction and fiction stories. Drawing is used for prewriting.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Composing Cinquain Poems: A Quick-Writing Activity
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Description: Students use themed graphic organizers to compose cinquain poems on topics common in the early elementary classroom.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Mail Time! An Integrated Postcard and Geography Study
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Description: Children write and receive postcards from friends and family, and then chart where all those postcards come from on a classroom map.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2
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