http://www.readwritethink.net/classroom-resources/
Contribute to ReadWriteThink / RSS / FAQs / Technical Help / Contact Us
- About IRA
- About NCTE
- About Verizon Thinkfinity
- Standards
- Our Advisors
- Our Authors
- Community Stories
- News
Teacher Resources by Grade
| Kindergarten | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1st - 2nd | 3rd - 4th | |
| 5th - 6th | 7th - 8th | |
| 9th - 10th | 11th - 12th | |
Verizon Thinkfinity offers thousands of free K-12 educational resources across seven disciplines for use in and out of school.
Home › Classroom Resources
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan
Can You Convince Me? Developing Persuasive Writing
Through a classroom game and resource handouts, students learn about the techniques used in persuasive oral arguments and apply them to independent persuasive writing activities.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan
Facilitating Student-Led Seminar Discussions with The Piano Lesson
August Wilson's play The Piano Lesson invites students to ask a number of questions—big
and small. After reading the first act, students learn how to create effective discussion questions and
then put them to use in student-led seminar discussions after act 1 and again at the end of the play.
Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive
Grades K – 12 | Printout
Grades K – 8 | Student Interactive
Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive
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 K – 12 | Printout
Students can use this template as a means of communicating about a book that they have read.
Grades K – 8 | Student Interactive
The Postcard Creator helps students learn to identify all the typical parts of a postcard, and then generate their own postcard messages by typing information into letter templates. After printing their texts, students can illustrate the front of their postcards in a variety of ways, including drawing, collage, and stickers.
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.
