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ALEX Lesson Plans
Thinkfinity Lesson Plans
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Using Web-Based Bookmarks to Conduct Internet Research
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Description: The important thing about this lesson is that it connects literature and science. The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown provides a model for original student poems about a content area topic. Web-based bookmarks guide students to appropriate sites on the topic, and a graphic organizer helps them focus their research.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 2,3
Subject: Language Arts
Title: The Frog Beyond the Fairy Tale Character: Searching Informational Texts
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Description: Frogs often appear as the main character in fiction stories, but what do students really know about frogs? Students find out in this lesson in which they research real-life frogs.
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Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Read Across America Day celebrates Dr. Seuss.
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Description: After sharing The Cat in the Hat and other patterned books with students, groups brainstorm sets of rhyming words and crate a story using these words.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2
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: Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein was published in 1974.
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Description: Students are introduced to a Silverstein verse and asked for their impressions. They then draw that they imagine when they read one of his lines and then write a line or two to continue the passage.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Ferocious Fighting Fish: An Ocean Unit Exploring Beginning Word Sounds
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Description: Focus students attention on alliteration in this ocean-themed unit. Students explore alliteration in framing texts then compose their own class book to explore figurative language in their own writing.
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Grade Span: K,1,2
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Improving Fluency through Group Literary Performance
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Description: Students participate in shared reading, choral reading, and readers theater, using books by Bill Martin, Jr. Repeated readings and literary performances help students with their reading accuracy, expression, and rate.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2
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