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Using Words as a Way into Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief Lesson PlanUsing Words as a Way into Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief Lesson Plan
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Use the Visual Thesaurus to predict the subject matter of Rick Riordan's book The Lightning Thief. A pre-reading activity encourages middle schoolers to use context clues and word meaning to discover what the book is about. After they finish the activity, they read the first chapter of the book and research Olympian gods.

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context clues, literature, word meanings, word relationships, word recognition

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mythological references, context clues, word meaning, literature, word recognition, word relationships, lightning thief, rick riordan, english language arts
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4th - 8th
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English Language Arts
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Common Core

RL.4.4 RL.5.4 RL.6.4 RL.7.4 RL.8.4 RL.8.9

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