1 Postcards From My Planet Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Science, Reading Grades: Grades 3–4 Professional Commentary: This site, a letter writing lesson, uses postcards to explore features and conventions of written communication. Set in the context of writing workshop, this resource encourages students to draw upon their background knowledge and prior experiences during writing tasks.... Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 4–5 Professional Commentary: It is often difficult to create authentic contexts for classroom reading and writing assignments. Integrating a letter-exchange program in a writing workshop format, helps to motivate students and build excitement about literacy learning.... 3 Peer Edit with Perfection: Teaching Effective Peer-Editing Strategies Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Revising and editing are essential parts of the writing process. This lesson introduces students to a peer revising/editing protocol.... 4 Writing with Writers: Biography Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: This promising practice, part of a Scholastic's Writing with Writers series, provides strategies for teaching students to write biographies. Designed for implementation within writing workshop, this resource includes a warm-up exercise, genre-specific tips for biography writing, and an example of a biographical sketch.... 5 History Comes Alive: Improve Fluency and Comprehension Using Social Studies Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 2–5 Professional Commentary: This cross-curricular lesson combines Social Studies and Language Arts to demonstrate how the study of an historical topic can be developed to make learning nonfiction more exciting, and also improve fluency and comprehension. This project about Benjamin Franklin includes a series of lessons in which the students: 1) read for information from multiple texts, 2) write a script for a Readers Theater... |