Early Literacy Specialists and Educators may use this power point individually or with staff for development of literacy practices K -2. This tool was designed by the Early Literacy Wisconsin State Reading Association Leadership team. This tool has been used with with teams wishing to deepen their early literacy understanding by reading, discussing the book. The use of the power point will enable educators to strengthen individual and team practices. This tool enables educators to dynamically dig into I am Reading by Kathy Collins and Matt Glover generating close reading and conversation of educators.
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Dr. Seuss's "The Cat in the Hat" is used as a primer to teach students how to analyze a literary work using plot, theme, characterization, and psychoanalytical criticism.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 10/10/2017
This series of videos feature Wisconsin educators demonstrating effective use of learning strategies-using prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, summarizing, evaluating, synthesizing-with students. Programs combine actual classroom footage with dialogue and teachers' personal reflections on instructional practices.
The Teachers area of the Into the Book website provides additional information about the classrooms featured in each episode of Behind the Lesson. Click on "Teacher Video" to find information and extra video clips from Dr. Mike Ford's interviews of each teacher.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Material Type:
- Diagram/Illustration
- Provider:
- PBS Wisconsin Education
- Author:
- PBS Wisconsin Education
- Date Added:
- 09/04/2019
Students explore the theme of conflict in literature. They learn the difference between internal and external conflict and various types of conflicts, including self against self, self against other, and self against nature or machine. Stories are used to discuss methods of managing and resolving conflict and interpersonal friction. Note: The literacy activities for the Mechanics unit are based on physical themes that have broad application to our experience in the world â concepts of rhythm, balance, spin, gravity, levity, inertia, momentum, friction, stress and tension.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Reading Literature
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- TeachEngineering
- Provider Set:
- TeachEngineering
- Author:
- Denise Carlson
- Integrated Teaching and Learning Program,
- Jane Evenson
- Malinda Schaefer Zarske
- Date Added:
- 10/14/2015
Students work in small groups to examine Margaret AtwoodŐs use of and observations about language in The HandmaidŐs Tale. Through this activity, students discover and articulate overarching thematic trends in the book and then can extend their observations about official or political language to examples from their own world.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 10/10/2017
In this lesson, students use blogs to hold discussions about the effect of the factors of culture, history, and environment on Latino poetry.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 10/10/2017
If you are looking to do a diversity audit or are in need of resources to make your library more inclusive, check out this curated collection. There is also a webinar recording - How to Audit Your Collection and Why found at https://youtu.be/0r4lEMsfTzw
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Library and Information Science
- Reading Literature
- Material Type:
- Other
- Reading
- Reference Material
- Author:
- Connecticut State Library
- Date Added:
- 05/14/2021
I use this resource in my classroom to conference with students, specifically in reading class. The Google Sheet includes tabs for the student's name, date, title of book, page number they are currently on, a connected standard I may be assessing at the time, and notes about their performance. Students can also read a page or two aloud as a quick fluency check.
- Subject:
- Education
- Elementary Education
- English Language Arts
- Literature
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Material Type:
- Formative Assessment
- Learning Task
- Date Added:
- 01/27/2019
Students prepare an already published scholarly article for presentation, with an emphasis on identification of the author's thesis and argument structure.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 10/10/2017
By exploring myths and truths surrounding Abraham LincolnŐs Gettysburg Address, students think critically about commonly believed stories regarding this famous speech from the Civil War era.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 10/10/2017
Students name unnamed chapters in a novel they are reading. They discuss possible chapter names, considering accuracy, word choice, and connotation, before settling on a choice.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 10/10/2017
Using Beloved as a model of a work with multiple narrative perspectives, students use a visualizing activity and close reading to consider ways in which subjective values shape contradictory representations.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 10/10/2017
The cultural children's story project allows students to explore Native American culture through a new lens by authoring and illustrating children's stories that teach children between the ages of four and six a lesson or tale unique to Native cultural traditions. The exemplar stories are laminated, bound, and given as gifts to an area elementary school with a primarily Native student body. Student authors read the stories to the children, and the books become part of the children's classroom library. The children learn cultural traditions from a young age and see their mentors (often Native students as well) as role models and writers. The authors learn the skills to develop their stories from conception to publication to presentation.Cultural Children's Story Video Lesson
- Subject:
- Character Education
- Early Learning
- English Language Arts
- Literature
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- World Languages
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Author:
- Martha Handrick
- Date Added:
- 05/07/2018
I include this assignment in my 11-12 Grade Native American Literature class. I usually introduce this unit after students have read the short story "This is What it Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona," by Sherman Alexie (Form his book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven). The story (along with pieces of his other short stories) was the inspiration for the 1998 film Smoke Signals, one of the first authentic films to examine the humor, pain, loss and struggle of reservation life.After reading the story and watching the film, students write about what makes the film authentic and how forgiveness plays into the ability to move on.We then watch the documentary film Reel Injun (2009), chronicling the evolution of Native American portrayals in film. Next, students have the opportunity to discuss the attributes of authentic Native American depictions in film and what aspects of Native culture they would like to see in film.Finally, we finish the unit by looking at the impact of stereotypes in film, especially children's films, and students watch the Disney film Pocahantas (2005) through the lens of a movie critic and write a movie review based on the film, focusing on the authenticity of racial and cultural portrayals.Video Lesson: The Evolution of Native American Representations in Film
- Subject:
- Composition and Rhetoric
- Literature
- Reading Literature
- U.S. History
- Material Type:
- Lesson Plan
- Author:
- Martha Handrick
- Date Added:
- 05/18/2018
Using published writers' texts and students' own writing, this unit explores emotions that are associated with the artful and deliberate use of commas, semicolons, colons, and exclamation points (end-stop marks of punctuation).
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 10/10/2017
Students read a variety of picture books that contain elements of the heroŐs journey and use an online interactive tool to analyze the stories.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 10/10/2017
Students read Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis, demonstrate comprehension of the story by involving themselves in discussions, and analyze the characters in preparation for a class "press conference."
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson Plan
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 10/10/2017
Students use both analytical and creative skills to adapt passages from a novel with significant internal dialogue and conflict, such as Toni Morrison's "Beloved", into a ten-minute play.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 10/10/2017
Everyone knows that "Star Wars" character Darth Vader is a villain. This lesson asks students to explore how they know such things about heroes and villains they encounter in texts. After examining how moviemakers communicate the villainy of Darth Vader, students examine a passage from Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone that describes the villain Voldemort, noting how Rowling communicates details about the character. Students then read novels in small groups, with each group member tracking a character in a reading log. When they finish their novels, students design posters and present details on their novels to the class. After the presentations, students make observations on how authors develop character and write journal entries reflecting on what they learned.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 10/10/2017
Students evaluate book reviews written by other children, discussing their components and effectiveness, and write reviews of favorite books to record on video or post online.
- Subject:
- English Language Arts
- Language, Grammar and Vocabulary
- Reading Foundation Skills
- Reading Informational Text
- Reading Literature
- Speaking and Listening
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Unit of Study
- Provider:
- ReadWriteThink
- Provider Set:
- ReadWriteThink
- Date Added:
- 10/10/2017