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ALEX Lesson Plans
Thinkfinity Lesson Plans
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Using Historical Fiction to Learn About the Civil War
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Description: Students in grades 4 and 5 discuss inferential comprehension and visualization as they use a think-aloud questioning strategy to develop a deeper understanding of a historical novel.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: A Genre Study of Letters With The Jolly Postman
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Description: Students read The Jolly Postman, in which a postman delivers letters to storybook characters. They explore different types of mail and categorize letters from the book and their own mail.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Guided Comprehension: Knowing How Words Work Using Semantic Feature Analysis
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Description: Based on the Guided Comprehension Model developed by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson introduces students to the comprehension strategy of knowing how words work.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 3,4,5,6
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Figurative Language: Teaching Idioms
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Description: It's raining cats and dogs! Students explore figurative language through read-alouds, teacher modeling, and student-centered activities, further developing their understanding of the literal versus the metaphorical translations of idioms.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Today is St. Patrick's Day.
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Description: St. Patrick's Day is celebrated by reading Irish folk tales and using the Story Map tool to create a graphic organizer and see what characteristics are unique to Irish tales.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Research Building Blocks: Notes, Quotes, and Fact Fragments
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Description: Students are guided through the process of taking notes while reading factual information, then turning those notes into new sentences and paragraphs written in their own words.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Inferring How and Why Characters Change
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Description: Students will really get into character when they read short stories and analyze the how's and why's of characters behaviors.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Questioning: A Comprehension Strategy for Small-Group Guided Reading
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Description: Students learn about the process of questioning and using webs to organize information during reading and then practice writing factual and inferential questions.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Vote for Me! Developing, Writing, and Evaluating Persuasive Speeches
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Description: This lesson encourages students in grades 4 and 5 to think critically and write persuasively by focusing on preparing, presenting, and evaluating mock campaign speeches.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Talking About Books to Improve Comprehension
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Description: This lesson is a conversation-starter! In this lesson, students learn about striking up deep-thought conversations and staying on topic in the form of a book talk.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Exploring the Subtext Strategy: Thinking Beyond the Text
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Description: What is it like to have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day? Students find out in this lesson in which they become the characters in Judith Viorst's book.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 2,3,4
Subject: Arts,Language Arts,Social Studies
Title: It Came from Greek Mythology
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Description: In this unit of six lessons, from EDSITEment, students study basic plots of three Greek myths and discuss three common themes in Greek myths. They also explore contemporary uses of terms from Greek mythology and analyze artistic and literary works based on or inspired by Greek myths.
Thinkfinity Partner: EDSITEment
Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Find favorite book picks in the Children's Choices.
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Description: Students create lists of their favorite books and then the class creates a '' Top Picks'' class booklist. Students can use the Book Cover Creator to create a book jacket for their favorite book.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: K,1,2,3,4,5,6
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