Students rework their forgotten/abandoned drafts by cutting and covering up selected words. By creatively manipulating text, they explore portal writing, a strategy for envisioning a new story or story direction.
The Folger Shakespeare Library provides the full searchable text of "Cymbeline" to read online or download as a PDF. All of the lines are numbered sequentially to make it easier and more convenient to find any line.
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The purpose of this lesson is to estimate and measure mass in grams.
Included is a YouTube video to support Grade 3 Blended Learning Math - Unit 4.11: Measurement - Exploring Mass: The Gram.
The purpose of the video lesson is to review what contractions are and practice using them. The accompanying handout provides more practice.
The purpose of the video lesson is to review what personification is and practice writing personification using objects and self-drawn pictures.
The purpose of the video lesson is to review writing poetry, including rhyming schemes and rhythm.
The purpose of this video lesson is to learn the difference between fiction and non-fiction.
The purpose of the video lesson is to learn how to write recipes that aren't always with food.
The purpose of the video lesson is to learn about the part of speech, adjectives. The accompanying handout reviews what adjectives are, provides practice using adjectives and gives the opportunity to to write a response journal using interesting adjectives.
The purpose of the video lesson is to introduce the figurative language technique of similes.
The purpose of the video lesson is to go over the steps of the writing process. The accompanying handout leads the writer through the stages of the writing process to write a surprise story.
The purpose of the video lesson is to go over the steps of writing a friendly letter. The accompanying handout gives an example of a friendly letter, outlining the parts, as well as an opportunity to write a friendly letter.
The purpose of the video lesson is to learn to read between the lines when reading text - inference reading.
The purpose of the video lesson is to review the making connections reading strategy and the difference between fiction and non-fiction.
The purpose of the video lesson is to review syllables. The accompanying handout provides practice with syllabication.
The purpose of the video lesson is to review how to give and receive effective feedback. The accompanying handout provides an outline of the important things to remember when giving and receiving feedback. The attached self-evaluation has students think about the feedback that they give and also how they seek and react to feedback for themselves.
The purpose of the video lesson is to review how to use a thesaurus.
The purpose of the video lesson is to review the effective characteristics of reading aloud. The accompanying handout provides a synopsis of the important things to remember to be a good oral reader. The attached self-assessment has students think about the quality of their oral reading and set goals.
The purpose of the video lesson is to review effective strategies for identifying unknown words. The accompanying handout provides a list of word attack strategies for helping with determining the meaning of unfamiliar words.