Summarizing: Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia Use a lesson that is designed to introduce primary students to summarizing a story using a part...		Writing Conferences The writing conference is a one-on-one strategy, that takes place between the student writer...
Summarizing an O. Henry Short Story During this high school language arts lesson, students will summarize, verbally and in writing,...		Classification Classification involves grouping items into one or more categories based on certain...
Visualizing Visualizing refers to our ability to create pictures in our heads based on text we read or...		Dialogue Journals A dialogue journal is an informal written conversation between two or more people...
Summarizing a John F. Kennedy Speech During this high school language arts lesson, students will summarize, verbally and in writing,...		Comparison Comparison involves looking at two or more things or ideas and considering their similarities...
Visualizing: Follow the Drinking Gourd Use a lesson that is designed to establish the skill of visualizing for primary students, using...		Cause and Effect A cause and effect analysis is an attempt to understand why things happen as they do. Use this...
Visualizing: Hill of Fire Use a lesson that is designed to expand the skill of visualizing for primary students, using...		Metaphors and Analogies Metaphors and analogies are comparisons between unlike things that have some particular things...
Writing Workshop A writing workshop is a block of time set aside in the school day to focus exclusively on the...		Classifying Seeds During this primary science lesson, students will learn classification by sorting seeds into...
Writing Aloud Writing aloud, or modeled writing, is a strategy wherein teachers use a "think aloud" strategy...		Migration Analogy Use a lesson that uses the technique of analogy to teach students about migration.
Peer Response and Editing Peer response and editing are processes through which students respond to and provide feedback...		Understanding Metaphors In this lesson, students are introduced to using metaphors in writing and daily conversations,...
Shared Writing In shared writing, the teacher and students compose text together, with both contributing their...		Displaying Data When students decide how to display data and go through the steps to create that display, they...