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Writing: Show, Don’t Tell
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Writing: Show, Don’t Tell
Third Grade
Writing
Help students learn about descriptive writing with this engaging lesson. Your class will learn to show character emotions though the “show, don’t tell” writing technique with videos, practice writing, and class participation.
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Writing: Show, Don’t Tell
Lesson Plan
Writing: Show, Don’t Tell
Help students learn about descriptive writing with this engaging lesson. Your class will learn to show character emotions though the “show, don’t tell” writing technique with videos, practice writing, and class participation.
Third Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
Main ideas and Details
Lesson Plan
Main ideas and Details
Third Grade
Writing
Use this lesson to help your ELs understand main idea and supporting details. They'll analyze non-fiction word, sentence, and paragraph structures. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the In Search of Main Ideas lesson.
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Main ideas and Details
Lesson Plan
Main ideas and Details
Use this lesson to help your ELs understand main idea and supporting details. They'll analyze non-fiction word, sentence, and paragraph structures. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the In Search of Main Ideas lesson.
Third Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
Narrative Writing: Adding Dialogue
Lesson Plan
Narrative Writing: Adding Dialogue
Third Grade
Writing
This lesson challenges young learners to add dialogue to their writing. Students will love using their creativity to write personal narratives.
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Narrative Writing: Adding Dialogue
Lesson Plan
Narrative Writing: Adding Dialogue
This lesson challenges young learners to add dialogue to their writing. Students will love using their creativity to write personal narratives.
Third Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
Main Ideas, Please!
Lesson Plan
Main Ideas, Please!
Third Grade
Writing
Your students will be introduced to the concept of a main idea in this fun lesson using props to support their thinking.
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Main Ideas, Please!
Lesson Plan
Main Ideas, Please!
Your students will be introduced to the concept of a main idea in this fun lesson using props to support their thinking.
Third Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
On-Demand Prewriting
Lesson Plan
On-Demand Prewriting
Third Grade
Writing
Students will develop pre-writing confidence by learning how to approach unfamiliar opinion writing prompts. Writers will generate a topic sentence and flush out supporting information.
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On-Demand Prewriting
Lesson Plan
On-Demand Prewriting
Students will develop pre-writing confidence by learning how to approach unfamiliar opinion writing prompts. Writers will generate a topic sentence and flush out supporting information.
Third Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
Argument Arrangements
Lesson Plan
Argument Arrangements
Third Grade
Writing
Help your students strengthen their argument writing! Using the strategy of writing advantages and disadvantages, students will delve into writing strong reasons that are rooted in evidence.
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Argument Arrangements
Lesson Plan
Argument Arrangements
Help your students strengthen their argument writing! Using the strategy of writing advantages and disadvantages, students will delve into writing strong reasons that are rooted in evidence.
Third Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
Tell Me About It! Writing Opinion Essays
Lesson Plan
Tell Me About It! Writing Opinion Essays
Third Grade
Writing
Do your students have strong opinions? This lesson, which features a bunch of fun essay-building exercises, provides an outlet for young writers to express their opinions.
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Tell Me About It! Writing Opinion Essays
Lesson Plan
Tell Me About It! Writing Opinion Essays
Do your students have strong opinions? This lesson, which features a bunch of fun essay-building exercises, provides an outlet for young writers to express their opinions.
Third Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
Strategic School Persuasion
Lesson Plan
Strategic School Persuasion
Third Grade
Writing
Persuasive writing is at hand! With authentic and relevant school-related topics, students will encounter and use organizational structures found in persuasive essays.
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Strategic School Persuasion
Lesson Plan
Strategic School Persuasion
Persuasive writing is at hand! With authentic and relevant school-related topics, students will encounter and use organizational structures found in persuasive essays.
Third Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
In Search of the Main Idea
Lesson Plan
In Search of the Main Idea
Third Grade
Writing
Young learners will love finding the main ideas in short informational texts. Featuring a bunch of fun worksheets, this lesson will help students learn about different topics while improving their reading skills.
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In Search of the Main Idea
Lesson Plan
In Search of the Main Idea
Young learners will love finding the main ideas in short informational texts. Featuring a bunch of fun worksheets, this lesson will help students learn about different topics while improving their reading skills.
Third Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
Totally Terrific Titles
Lesson Plan
Totally Terrific Titles
Third Grade
Writing
Boost your students’ writing with instruction on book titles! A title should be catchy and inclusive of the content of a book. Use this lesson to teach your students the art and mechanics of writing terrific titles.
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Totally Terrific Titles
Lesson Plan
Totally Terrific Titles
Boost your students’ writing with instruction on book titles! A title should be catchy and inclusive of the content of a book. Use this lesson to teach your students the art and mechanics of writing terrific titles.
Third Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
Creating an Informative Picture Book
Lesson Plan
Creating an Informative Picture Book
Second Grade
Writing
With this integrated lesson, your students will organize information and write an informative book about your current science unit. This lesson will help strengthen student writing while also reviewing and summarizing your current science unit.
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Creating an Informative Picture Book
Lesson Plan
Creating an Informative Picture Book
With this integrated lesson, your students will organize information and write an informative book about your current science unit. This lesson will help strengthen student writing while also reviewing and summarizing your current science unit.
Second Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
Experience Explanations
Lesson Plan
Experience Explanations
Third Grade
Writing
When your students make connections to their personal lives, their writing will flourish! Use this lesson plan as a springboard to helping students plan and develop their own personal narratives.
Lesson Plan
Experience Explanations
Lesson Plan
Experience Explanations
When your students make connections to their personal lives, their writing will flourish! Use this lesson plan as a springboard to helping students plan and develop their own personal narratives.
Third Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
Interesting Introductions
Lesson Plan
Interesting Introductions
Third Grade
Reading
Teach young authors how to "hook" readers with this hands-on lesson. By examining novels and developing their own introductions, students will be able to hone their writing skills.
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Interesting Introductions
Lesson Plan
Interesting Introductions
Teach young authors how to "hook" readers with this hands-on lesson. By examining novels and developing their own introductions, students will be able to hone their writing skills.
Third Grade
Reading
Lesson Plan
My Perfect Pet
Lesson Plan
My Perfect Pet
Third Grade
Writing
In this lesson, your students will go through the writing process to write about their perfect pets and then make a 3-D version of this pet, mount the final draft, and display it.
Lesson Plan
My Perfect Pet
Lesson Plan
My Perfect Pet
In this lesson, your students will go through the writing process to write about their perfect pets and then make a 3-D version of this pet, mount the final draft, and display it.
Third Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
Running On: Copy Editing for Run-on Sentences
Lesson Plan
Running On: Copy Editing for Run-on Sentences
Third Grade
Writing
Equip your students to stop run-on sentences with punctuation and capitalization! In this lesson, your students will explore copyediting symbols for capitalization and punctuation and use these symbols as they edit writing.
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Running On: Copy Editing for Run-on Sentences
Lesson Plan
Running On: Copy Editing for Run-on Sentences
Equip your students to stop run-on sentences with punctuation and capitalization! In this lesson, your students will explore copyediting symbols for capitalization and punctuation and use these symbols as they edit writing.
Third Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
My Teacher for President!
Lesson Plan
My Teacher for President!
Second Grade
Writing
Need a promotion? Then have your students participate in a writing lesson that will have them voting for you! Give students the opportunity to place teachers in the spotlight, as they persuade others why teachers make the best presidents.
Lesson Plan
My Teacher for President!
Lesson Plan
My Teacher for President!
Need a promotion? Then have your students participate in a writing lesson that will have them voting for you! Give students the opportunity to place teachers in the spotlight, as they persuade others why teachers make the best presidents.
Second Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
Indentation Intentions
Lesson Plan
Indentation Intentions
Third Grade
Writing
What is the intention of an indentation within a paragraph? Within this lesson, students will explore the reasons why we indent. They’ll categorize and classify content to construct paragraphs that include indentations.
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Indentation Intentions
Lesson Plan
Indentation Intentions
What is the intention of an indentation within a paragraph? Within this lesson, students will explore the reasons why we indent. They’ll categorize and classify content to construct paragraphs that include indentations.
Third Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
St. Patrick's Day Celebrations
Lesson Plan
St. Patrick's Day Celebrations
Third Grade
Writing
St. Patrick's Day is a widely popular holiday all over the world. Teach your students about some interesting traditions as they write an informative text about how St. Patrick's Day is celebrated.
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St. Patrick's Day Celebrations
Lesson Plan
St. Patrick's Day Celebrations
St. Patrick's Day is a widely popular holiday all over the world. Teach your students about some interesting traditions as they write an informative text about how St. Patrick's Day is celebrated.
Third Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
Tree of Cranes
Lesson Plan
Tree of Cranes
Second Grade
Reading
This winter-themed lesson plan, which incorporates the book
Tree of Cranes
by Allen Say, teaches students about Japanese traditions and customs. They will review the basic elements of a narrative story, and then write their own narratives about a special event or moment in their life.
Lesson Plan
Tree of Cranes
Lesson Plan
Tree of Cranes
This winter-themed lesson plan, which incorporates the book
Tree of Cranes
by Allen Say, teaches students about Japanese traditions and customs. They will review the basic elements of a narrative story, and then write their own narratives about a special event or moment in their life.
Second Grade
Reading
Lesson Plan
Activist Heroes
Lesson Plan
Activist Heroes
Third Grade
Writing
Fully adaptable, this lesson can be used to to highlight African American leaders, famous women, veterans, or any other group of individuals who have acted heroically and have positively influenced our nation!
Lesson Plan
Activist Heroes
Lesson Plan
Activist Heroes
Fully adaptable, this lesson can be used to to highlight African American leaders, famous women, veterans, or any other group of individuals who have acted heroically and have positively influenced our nation!
Third Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
Stylish Opinion Topic Sentences
Lesson Plan
Stylish Opinion Topic Sentences
Third Grade
Writing
Your class' prewriting skills will burst with style as they state opinion and supporting reason sentences with descriptive adjectives.
Lesson Plan
Stylish Opinion Topic Sentences
Lesson Plan
Stylish Opinion Topic Sentences
Your class' prewriting skills will burst with style as they state opinion and supporting reason sentences with descriptive adjectives.
Third Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
Black Revolutionaries: Malcolm X
Lesson Plan
Black Revolutionaries: Malcolm X
Second Grade
Writing
This lesson teaches kids all about Malcolm X and how his childhood influenced him to become one of America's most well known, controversial, and revolutionary figures. First kids will listen to a read-aloud authored by Malcolm X's daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz, and then they will write an informative paragraph.
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Black Revolutionaries: Malcolm X
Lesson Plan
Black Revolutionaries: Malcolm X
This lesson teaches kids all about Malcolm X and how his childhood influenced him to become one of America's most well known, controversial, and revolutionary figures. First kids will listen to a read-aloud authored by Malcolm X's daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz, and then they will write an informative paragraph.
Second Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
Main Idea: It's in the Bag!
Lesson Plan
Main Idea: It's in the Bag!
Second Grade
Writing
Help your class grasp the concept of "main idea" with this fun, hands-on lesson. Students will dive into mystery bags full of supportive detail clues to determine the main idea of each bag.
Lesson Plan
Main Idea: It's in the Bag!
Lesson Plan
Main Idea: It's in the Bag!
Help your class grasp the concept of "main idea" with this fun, hands-on lesson. Students will dive into mystery bags full of supportive detail clues to determine the main idea of each bag.
Second Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
G or PG? Persuade Me!
Lesson Plan
G or PG? Persuade Me!
Third Grade
Writing
Does your class enjoy watching movies? In this action-packed lesson, students will state their opinion on G vs. PG-rated movies in schools, and share three reasons to support it. No silent films here, as students will have a lot to say.
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G or PG? Persuade Me!
Lesson Plan
G or PG? Persuade Me!
Does your class enjoy watching movies? In this action-packed lesson, students will state their opinion on G vs. PG-rated movies in schools, and share three reasons to support it. No silent films here, as students will have a lot to say.
Third Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Text
Lesson Plan
Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Text
Second Grade
Writing
Use this lesson to help your students learn how to find the main idea and details in a nonfiction text using a graphic organizer for support.
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Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Text
Lesson Plan
Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Text
Use this lesson to help your students learn how to find the main idea and details in a nonfiction text using a graphic organizer for support.
Second Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
Action! Students Create Reader's Theater
Lesson Plan
Action! Students Create Reader's Theater
Third Grade
Reading
Students will have a blast turning a reading passage into a Reader's Theater skit. This lesson teaches them to use dialogue to help readers understand the experiences of different characters.
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Action! Students Create Reader's Theater
Lesson Plan
Action! Students Create Reader's Theater
Students will have a blast turning a reading passage into a Reader's Theater skit. This lesson teaches them to use dialogue to help readers understand the experiences of different characters.
Third Grade
Reading
Lesson Plan
Parts of a Drama
Lesson Plan
Parts of a Drama
Third Grade
Writing
Expose your students to the wonderful genre of drama, but be sure to teach them the important key terms so they understand the structure. Use this as a stand alone lesson or a pre-lesson for the
Putting a Play Together!
lesson.
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Parts of a Drama
Lesson Plan
Parts of a Drama
Expose your students to the wonderful genre of drama, but be sure to teach them the important key terms so they understand the structure. Use this as a stand alone lesson or a pre-lesson for the
Putting a Play Together!
lesson.
Third Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
Characters and Dialogue
Lesson Plan
Characters and Dialogue
Third Grade
Writing
Help your ELs identify the characters and their dialogue in a story. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the
Action! Students Create Reader’s Theater
lesson.
Lesson Plan
Characters and Dialogue
Lesson Plan
Characters and Dialogue
Help your ELs identify the characters and their dialogue in a story. This lesson can stand alone or be used as a pre-lesson for the
Action! Students Create Reader’s Theater
lesson.
Third Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
Supporting Opinions with Style
Lesson Plan
Supporting Opinions with Style
Third Grade
Writing
Your students’ organization and prewriting skills will shine as they introduce their topic, state an opinion, and list three supporting reasons.
Lesson Plan
Supporting Opinions with Style
Lesson Plan
Supporting Opinions with Style
Your students’ organization and prewriting skills will shine as they introduce their topic, state an opinion, and list three supporting reasons.
Third Grade
Writing
Lesson Plan
Construct and Deconstruct Contractions
Lesson Plan
Construct and Deconstruct Contractions
Third Grade
Writing
There is great wonder in building things and taking them apart. Use this grammar lesson with your students to teach them how to construct and deconstruct contractions while correctly using an apostrophe.
Lesson Plan
Construct and Deconstruct Contractions
Lesson Plan
Construct and Deconstruct Contractions
There is great wonder in building things and taking them apart. Use this grammar lesson with your students to teach them how to construct and deconstruct contractions while correctly using an apostrophe.
Third Grade
Writing
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