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Trading Cards. Planning Story Characters Using Interactive Trading Cards. Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice The boundaries of literacy are expanding to include many different popular culture texts. Back to top Trading Card Creator online tool: Have students use this interactive tool to plan and develop their characters by answering key questions about them. Trading Cards mobile app: Students use this mobile app to create trading cards for fictional characters. Xu S.H., Perkins, R.S., & Zunich, L.O. (2005). A New Literacies Study (NLS) perspective views literacy as moving beyond merely reading and writing printed words and traditional texts. Sharing Favorite Books Using Interactive Character Trading Cards. ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us.

If you've got lessons plans, activities, or other ideas you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you. More Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how you can connect with other literacy professionals. More Teacher Resources by Grade Your students can save their work with Student Interactives. More Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice Good readers recommend books to others and read books based on recommendations. Back to top Trading Card Creator tool: Students create trading cards for fictional character to show comprehension in a fun way.

Trading Cards mobile app: Engage students with the ability to create a fictional character trading card on a mobile app. Xu S.H., Perkins, R.S., & Zunich, L.O. (2005). CoverCreator. On a Musical Note: Exploring Reading Strategies by Creating a Soundtrack. ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us. If you've got lessons plans, activities, or other ideas you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you. More Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how you can connect with other literacy professionals.

More Teacher Resources by Grade Your students can save their work with Student Interactives. More Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview Featured Resources From Theory to Practice No matter where you teach, students are likely to listen to music. Back to top CD/DVD Cover Creator: Using this online tool, student can design and print cd or dvd covers and insert booklets.

In "Film and Reading Strategies," Chapter Two from Reading in the Dark: Using Film as a Tool in the English Classroom, John Golden explains that "anytime we can get students fully involved in a text, we know we have done our job" (59). Persuasion Map. Comp Lab:Interactive Organizer. Stapleless Book. Grades K – 1 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Name Talk: Exploring Letter-Sound Knowledge in the Primary Classroom Students demonstrate their letter/sound knowledge by working with name cards and sharing observations about their classmates' names, giving teachers an opportunity to assess knowledge in a meaningful context.

Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Unit Reading Everywhere with Dr. Seuss Young readers create a classroom book modeled after Dr. Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Using a Predictable Text to Teach High-Frequency Words After reading an engaging yet predictable text about a child looking for his cat, students use a similar format and high-frequency words to craft tales about their own lost pets.

Book Buddy Biographies: Intermediate and Primary Students Working Together Students create a personalized biography for their reading buddy, and each child is the author, illustrator, and editor. Grade K | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Grades K – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson. Foldable on Symbolsim. Character Profile Interactive.