Students work in groups to create annotated book reviews with links to topics of interest related to their book.
Book Reviews, Annotation, and Web Technology
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Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience
6 - 8
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Students analyze "choose your own adventure" stories and brainstorm to develop setting, characters, and plots for their own adventures stories and related Websites.
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Writing Reports in Kindergarten? Yes!
K
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This lesson encourages young students to see themselves as writers with a message to convey. Three types of reports are provided to show what kindergartners and emergent writers can do.
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Crit Lit for Kids: From Critical Consciousness to Service Learning
6 - 8
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Students take their ideas from the classroom page to the community pavement when they participate in a service-learning project based on their multimedia presentations.
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Writers' Workshop: The Biographical Sketch
3 - 5
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Students use the faces and places they learn about in their research to write a biography about a contemporary or historical figure.
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Developing Story Structure With Paper-Bag Skits
6 - 8
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Lights, camera, action, and a bit of mystery! In this lesson, students use mystery props in a skit bag to create and perform in short, impromptu skits.
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Zines for Kids: Multigenre Texts About Media Icons
3 - 5
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Special edition! Students use ReadWriteThink tools to create magazines about prominent figures using a variety of writing genres and styles.
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Analyzing Character Development in Three Short Stories About Women
9 - 12
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Students read three short stories about women; discuss the development of female characters, gender differences, and society's expectations; and write scripts in which the characters discuss their similarities and differences.
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History Comes Alive: Developing Fluency and Comprehension Using Social Studies
2 - 5
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Let the power of imagination and inference serve as a "time machine" to bring Benjamin Franklin into the classroom! History and science come to life in a dialogue with Franklin the inventor, developed through lesson activities that incorporate research, imagination, writing, visual arts, and drama.
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Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
9 - 12
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Make connections across genres and across cultures to engage students in the study of literary voice and themes. Comprehension skills and vocabulary also come into play, especially for English language learners, as students read a novel and related poems, then write and perform original poems related to the novel.