Integrating various creative formats with solid, researched fact, allows students to show what they have learned. The resulting "museum" can be shared with an audience in any of a number of ways. Includes handouts, rubric, and...

Workshop 5 centers on multigenre writing, an eclectic approach to writing instruction that offers students a wide range of options for expressing ideas and communicating knowledge. As students explore different avenues for translating...

Contains plans for three 50-minute lessons that ask students to use the writing process to write about a piece of visual art. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used...

A teacher resource for getting students to understand and appreciate the contribution of Randolph Caldecott in recognition of his birthday. Allows students to be creative and contains lesson plans, web links, and a bibliography. From...

A classroom activity concerning the life and works of the "Junie B. Jones" author Barbara Park. Includes creative discussions and processes, web links, and an annotated bibliography. From ReadWriteThink's calendar on 4/21/07.

In this lesson, 7th graders rewrite an expression to help determine a solution.

In this lesson, 7th graders write and solve an inequality to solve the problem.

This activity is a good practice for counting objects. Students will count pre-filled bags of objects and record their answers. Examples are included in this lesson. This activity can become a daily 10-minute routine with the students...

Teams must protect a raw egg from an eight feet fall with a container they designed. To construct the container teams must use only materials given to them in a bag and must do it in an allotted time frame. Lesson plan includes a...

"Manipulate words and letters" with these "language brain teasers" that ask you to think about letters, anagrams, syllables, consonants, rhymes, and other topics that you talk about in English class. Try the brain teasers presented here,...