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ALEX Lesson Plans
Subject: English Language Arts (4), or English Language Arts (4), or Social Studies (4)
Title: A Father's Life at Russell Cave
Description: In this lesson, students will learn about a father's life at Russell Cave and learn about different writing genres.
This lesson plan is made possible through the ALEX and the U.S. National Park Service Partnership.
Subject: English Language Arts (4), or English Language Arts (4), or Science (3 - 4), or Technology Education (3 - 5)
Title: The Earth has Many Layers
Description: This is a hands-on lesson that will help students explore what geologists do to study the different layers of the Earth. Students will work in cooperative groups to complete this activity. Students will also keep a Science Journal telling about their findings. This lesson will follow the Learning Cycle.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science, GEMS Project funded by the Malone Family Foundation.
Subject: English Language Arts (4), or English Language Arts (4), or Technology Education (3 - 5)
Title: Aunt Chip and the Triple Creek Dam Affair by Patricia Pollaco
Description: In this lesson, students will read and summarize the book by pages. After publishing, students will use their slides as sequencing exercises. This lesson plan can be adapted for any grade level or book.
Thinkfinity Lesson Plans
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Exploring How Section Headings Support Understanding of Expository Texts
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Description: Nonfiction may be dull for some students, but this lesson helps them focus on the main ideas. Through awareness of section headings, students learn to sort and categorize main concepts.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 3,4,5
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: 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: Guided Comprehension: Making Connections Using a Double-Entry Journal
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Description: Based on the Guided Comprehension Model by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson helps students learn three types of connections (text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world) using a double-entry journal.
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Grade Span: 4,5,6
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Wartime Poetry: Working With Similes
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Description: Students analyze a photograph, brainstorm words to describe the characters' senses and feelings, work in pairs to describe a character's experience, and create a poem using their ideas and similes.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Comics in the Classroom as an Introduction to Narrative Structure
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Description: This lesson uses comic strip frames to define plot and reinforce the structure that underlies a narrative. Students finish by writing their own original narratives.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Readers Theatre
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Description: Students develop scripts, perform, and use their voices to depict characters from texts, giving them the opportunity to develop fluency and further enhance comprehension of what they are reading.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Q is for Duck: Using Alphabet Books With Struggling Writers
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Description: A is for zoo? Q is for duck? The alphabet as students know it is transformed when students create a class book that contains clever associations for each letter of the alphabet.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Using Science Texts to Teach the Organizational Features of Nonfiction
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Description: Students explore organizational features of nonfiction science. Students then work together to create a two-page spread using those features to present information about their local environment.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5
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.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: November is National American Indian Heritage Month.
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Description: Students explore Native American heritage through the study of pourquoi tales, write their own original pourquoi tales, and use the ReadWriteThink Printing Press to publish them.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Subject: Arts,Language Arts,Science
Title: 'Leap, plashless'': Emily Dickinson and Poetic Imagination
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Description: In this lesson, from EDSITEment, students read and explore one of Emily Dickinson's nature poems, A Bird came down the Walk--through interaction with other art forms. First, they listen to clips of a hymn to help them hear Dickinson's meter. Then, they view 19th-century bird images and describe what they see, just as a poet would. They observe how a poet plays with language and imagery to create a scene by acting out verse lines. Finally, they write a brief poem of their own, using what they have learned and their own observations.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Blending Fiction and Nonfiction to Improve Comprehension and Writing Skills
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Description: Students use a text set to increase understanding of content area material and demonstrate what they have learned by writing an original piece that blends together narrative and expository elements.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: All About Our Town: Using Brochures to Teach Informational Writing
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Description: Students explore their towns' landmarks, symbols, and people; look at brochures and other informational tools; practice writing for a specific audience and revising; and work collaboratively to create a brochure.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Creating a Classroom Newspaper
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Description: Students write authentic newspaper stories, including learning about various aspects of newspapers, such as writing an article, online articles, newspaper reading habits, and layout and design techniques.
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Grade Span: 3,4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Edward Stratemeyer, creator of book series such as Nancy Drew, was born on this day in 1862.
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Description: Students select several books from one of Stratemeyer's series to read, discuss shared elements in the books, and use the 3-Circle Venn Diagram to compare story elements.
Thinkfinity Partner: ReadWriteThink
Grade Span: 3,4,5,6,7,8
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Voting! What's It All About?
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Description: Students explore a variety of sources for information about voting. They evaluate the information to determine if it is fact or opinion, and then create a graffiti wall about voting.
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.
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Grade Span: 4,5
Subject: Language Arts
Title: Cyberspace Explorer: Getting to Know Christopher Columbus
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Description: Students explore multiple online sources to gather information about the life of Christopher Columbus, complete a cyber scavenger hunt, and use their notes to prepare a timeline and summary report.
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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.
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Grade Span: 2,3,4
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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