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ReadWriteThink website has been providing quality lesson plans, interactive student materials, web resources, and ELA standards to classroom teachers since October of 2002. Highlighted here are examples of some elementary lesson plans with a focus on back to school and creating classroom community.
Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, and Internet Research Try this lesson for a get-acquainted activity that invites pairs of students to learn about each other and share their findings with the rest of the class.
The Feature Story--Fifteen Minutes (and 500 Words) of Fame! A similar get-acquainted activity for older students which asks students to write a newspaper profile of a classmate with a particular focus on a talent, interest, or passion of that classmate.
Writing about Writing: An Extended Metaphor Assignment To learn more about students as writers, try this lesson which uses Richard Wilbur's poem "The Writer" as an inspiration for students' own descriptions of their writing practices.
Audience, Purpose, and Language Use in Electronic Messages This lesson explores the language of electronic messages and how it affects other writing.