Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Showing How to Deal With Anger
Molly Bang's book, When Sophie Get's Angry-Really, Really Angry, provides students with positive ways of dealing with anger. When students explore their own methods of dealing with anger and then talk and write about new ways of...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Poems About Ages and Stages
William Shakespeare's "The Seven Ages of Man" pointed out how life happens in stages. Modeling the Bard himself and Harry Chapin's "Cat's In The Cradle", which breaks a father-son relationship into four stages (verses), each student will...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Introducing the Venn Diagram in the Kindergarten Classroom
Contains plans for short lessons that introduce the use of Venn Diagrams to kindergarten students. Uses interactive Venn Diagram exercises to make the concept easy to understand. In addition to objectives and standards, this...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Family Ties Making Connections to Improve Reading Comprehension
Contains plans for five lessons that teach students to make authentic connections to reading selections. Lessons use books such as "Bigmama?s" by Donald Crews, "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats, and "The Relatives Came" by Cynthia...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Global Oneness Project: Sports for Social Change
In this lesson, learners explore how participation in team sports can help empower youth in other areas of their lives. Students identify principles of how young people learn and discuss the ties between sports, civic engagement, and...
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Manners
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a writing prompt. Students will write about the topic as a means of reflecting on their manners.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Discipline Packet
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides reproducible packet that will engage students in reflecting about their behavior. The packet may be used as typical writing prompts or as part of a classroom management system. Additional...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Blogging With Photovoice: Sharing Pictures in Integrated Class
Photovoice is a technique that has participants take photos in response to a prompt, reflect on the meaning behind three of their photos, and share the photos to find common themes. It is an ideal strategy for all forms of classrooms,...
Literacy Head
Literacyhead: Images to Give Writers Ideas: I Know Here
Enjoy this collection of images that invite us to reflect upon the important places in our lives. Students can practice articulating and writing about their personal sense of place in the world using these images to spark their...