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Verizon Thinkfinity offers thousands of free K-12 educational resources across seven disciplines for use in and out of school.
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Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive
Character Trading Cards
This tool provides a fun and useful way to explore a character in a book or as a prewriting exercise when creating characters for original stories.
Grades 7 – 12 | Calendar Activity
Celebrate Teen Tech Week!
Students select a topic for research using a variety of technologies and practice citing media sources. They can create their report in an electronic medium such as a CD, podcast, or video.
Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive
Grades 3 – 12 | Calendar Activity
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan
Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive
The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay.
Grades 3 – 12 | Calendar Activity
Music in Our Schools Month is in March.
Students explore the effects of music on a story by reading a story, novel, or play, viewing the musical version, and comparing the two. Students can then select a text read in class and create a musical adaptation.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan
My Family Traditions: A Class Book and a Potluck Lunch
After analyzing Family Pictures/Cuadros de Familia by Carmen Lomas Garza, students create a class book with artwork and information about their ancestry, traditions, and recipes, followed by a potluck lunch.
Grades 3 – 6 | Lesson Plan
Guided Comprehension: Summarizing Using the QuIP Strategy
Students learn to use the QuIP (questions into paragraphs) comprehension strategy to organize information and then synthesize it in writing.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan
Improve Comprehension: A Word Game Using Root Words and Affixes
Students study common root words and affixes, improve their comprehension and spelling, and make a card game in which they form words with a prefix, root word, and suffix.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan
Wading Through the Web: Teaching Internet Research Strategies
The Internet is often the first stop for student researchers, but few know how to vet sources effectively. In this lesson, students learn about Internet research through an interactive PowerPoint presentation.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan
Completing the Circle: The Craft of Circular Plot Structure
Students identify, explore and apply the elements of circle plot structures to their own stories by using graphic organizers, reading and writing stories, and using checklists to assess their work.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan
Having My Say: A Multigenre Autobiography Project
Students compose a multigenre paper, modeled after the Delany sister's autobiography, Having Our Say, that includes the autobiographical narrative essay as well as an informational nonfiction piece.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan
Teaching the Compare and Contrast Essay through Modeling
The compare and contrast essay is taught through modeling from the brainstorming phase through the first draft.
