Reading Genres Lesson Plans Reviewed by Teachers

ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: A Genre Study of Letter With the Jolly Postman

For Teachers 2nd - 5th

In this lesson outline based on The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, students learn about parts of a letter, the different genres of mail, and letter attributes by studying the letters included in the book.

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Read Write Think: Finding Poetry in Prose Reading and Writing Love Poems

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

Contains plans for three lessons about love poetry that ask students to review the genre before writing their own. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the...

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Read Write Think: Playing With Genre Through Newspapers and Short Stories

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards

Contains plans for three lessons that ask students to compare narrative writing (short stories) to expository writing (news articles) in order to understand what makes each genre unique. In addition to objectives and standards, this...

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Read Works: Genre Studies: Informational Text Kindergarten Unit: Labeled Diagrams

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Bats by Gail Gibbons to teach learners how to identify facts learned from labeled diagrams within an informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice...

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Read Works: Lessons: A Picture Book of George Washington

For Teachers K

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students that biographies tell stories about real people who are famous or important.

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Read Write Think: Animal Study From Fiction to Facts

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Contains plans for five 50-minute lessons that ask students to compare and research information about animals from fiction and nonfiction texts. In addition to student objectives and standards, these instructional plans contains links to...

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Read Write Think: Collaboration of Sites, Sounds: Wikis to Catalog Protest Songs

For Teachers 9th - 10th

This lesson makes a connection to popular culture by asking students to research and analyze contemporary and historic protest songs and to catalogue them in a class wiki.

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Read Write Think: Reading and Analyzing Multigenre Texts

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards

This lesson plan deals with the process of analyzing a variety of literary texts from poetry and letters to diary entries and works of fiction. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and...

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Read Works: 1st Grade Lesson: Classifying Texts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson in which students use the books Froggy Goes to School by Jonathan London and Life Cycle of a Frog by Angela Royston to learn to classify texts as fiction or nonfiction. Lesson includes direct...

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Read Works: Genre Studies: Biography Kindergarten Unit: Important Person

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses A Picture Book of George Washington by David A. Adler to teach students what biography is and why the subjects of biographies are important people. Ideas for direct teaching, guided...

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Read Write Think: Examining Transcendentalism

For Teachers 9th - 10th

Interactive lesson plan that allows students to view the works and ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau through the popular culture of their time. Students use multiple genres to grasp the concepts of Transcendentalism,...

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Read Write Think: Question and Answer Books From Genre Study to Report Writing

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards

Contains plans for eight lessons that explore Question and Answer Books and ask students to do research in order to write their own. In addition to objectives and standards, these instructional plans contain links to sites used in the...

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Pbs Learning Media: Lesson Plan: Grades 7 12: Exploring Selected Haiku by Issa

For Teachers 9th - 10th

A lesson plan, based on the work of the Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa, that explores the haiku form of poetry. Students will learn features of a haiku, identify features within Issa's work, and write an original haiku. The lesson plan...

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Writing Fix: Truth Be Told

For Teachers 3rd - 8th

This lesson plan extends student understanding of the concept of "truisms" and "writing hooks" to introduce writings. Gretchen Bernabei's Reviving the Essay, the book Fox, written by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks, will be read aloud and...

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British Library: 19th Century Non Fiction Texts: Work & Welfare

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

This thematic collection will allow students to read and understand 19th-century non-fiction texts, and support them in identifying key features for a range of genres, audiences, and purposes. Each source is accompanied by original...

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