ReadWriteThink.org keeps getting bigger and better, and as new theory and technology arise in the world of literacy education, we grow and change and adapt so that we can provide innovative materials and resources to the teachers and students who need them most. Here are the newest resources on RWT:
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Lesson Plan:
Students analyze rhetorical strategies in online editorials, building knowledge of strategies and awareness of local and national issues. This lesson teaches students connections between subject, writer, and audience and how rhetorical strategies are used in everyday writing.
Calendar Entry:
Classroom Printout:
Students use this printout to evaluate both their own performance in a group as well as the actions of their group members.
Strategy Guide:聽
Use independent, imaginative artwork and varied writing prompts to assess understanding of a given topic for a student body with differentiated needs.
Activity:
Motivate your middle school reader with books that include LGBTQ characters.
Tip & How-To:
Help students select and narrow a topic, find strong sources, and record new learning in an online tool.
Podcast Episode:
Tune in to hear about what it means to be a YA lit advocate and what YA advocacy work can look like. You鈥檒l learn strategies you can use to challenge misconceptions about YA lit. You鈥檒l also hear about a variety of fiction and nonfiction titles you can recommend to teen readers.
This past year was a fun one for us at ReadWriteThink.org, and our success and popularity has us excited for opportunities in 2017. We’d like to thank you, our users, for making the site so widely used and so well loved. We couldn’t have done it without you, and as always, your are appreciated.