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Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan

Read a Song: Using Song Lyrics for Reading and Writing

This lesson will be music to the students’ ears when they hear that they get to read song lyrics and compose original lyrics for a familiar song.

 

Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan

Hoax or No Hoax? Strategies for Online Comprehension and Evaluation

Are your students easily fooled? You’ll find out in this lesson in which students carefully and critically examine hoax websites to determine their validity.

 

Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan

Using Prediction as a Prereading Strategy

Students learn about and apply the prediction strategy while reading a trade book. They use response journals to record questions and responses based on prereading predictions.

 

Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan

Developing a Definition of Reading through Investigation in Middle School

Students collaboratively interact with a variety of texts as they define reading and develop their own Reader’s Profiles modeled after online social networking sites.

 

Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan

And I Quote: A Punctuation Proofreading Minilesson

Students review the basic conventions for using quotations from literature or references from a research project, focusing on accurate punctuation and page layout, then apply the conventions to their texts.

 

Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan

Guess What’s in the Bag: A Language-based Activity

Students play a guessing game to practice using descriptive language.