The first days of April always make me think of the Prologue to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, and of Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d.” So many April poems, it’s little wonder…
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Write a Poem a Day for National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month, sponsored by Academy of American Poets and other poetry organizations. ReadWriteThink includes links to poetry lesson plans, websites, and classroom activities on the calendar entry for April 1. I wondered, however, if we had enough…
March 27 to April 2 on ReadWriteThink
Hope March is heading out like a lamb for you. After all the snow and rain of the last weeks, we could all use a nice, pleasant transition into April. As you plan your classes for the last days of…
March 20—26 on ReadWriteThink
Spring is finally here. National Poetry Month is just weeks away. No matter what grade level you teach, ReadWriteThink has lesson plans and related resources to support you. New Resources Answer students’ questions and discuss current events with Thinkfinity.org’s classroom…
March 13-19 on ReadWriteThink
We’ve set our clocks forward for Daylight Savings Time, and Spring is nearly here. What will you do in class this week? Here are some resources from ReadWriteThink to support you. New Resources Answer students’ questions and discuss current events…
Lesson Plans and Resources for Script Frenzy
If you are thinking of challenging students to take part in the Young Writers Program (YWP) for Script Frenzy, you’ll want some resources to support the project. As I explained in more detail yesterday, Script Frenzy is the free event…
Educational Resources You’re Guaranteed to Like
If you are an English teacher, I’m here to make you a promise. Every day, I gather the latest news stories on literacy, literature, and composition and post them online. When I finish that, I publish details on the wonderful…
ReadWriteThink: Love of War in Tim O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story”
Students explore texts on camaraderie among soldiers as an introduction to the theme of love of war. As a culminating activity, students compose a visual collage depicting their own beliefs about the relationship between love and war. The lesson was…
ReadWriteThink: Creative Problem-Solving with Ezra Jack Keats
Students explore problem-solving in this new ReadWriteThink lesson, which explores the challenges faced by characters in Ezra Jack Keats’ picture books. After reading a variety of Keats’ books, students explore the problems that the characters face and solutions that they…
ReadWriteThink: The Children’s Picture Book Project
In this new ReadWriteThink lesson, students evaluate published children’s picture storybooks. Students then plan, write, illustrate, and publish their own children’s picture books. The lesson was submitted by Junius Wright of Charleston, South Carolina.