
Acrostic Poems and Comprehension
Students will write Acrostic poems to demonstrate their comprehension of a literature selection.
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Students will write Acrostic poems to demonstrate their comprehension of a literature selection.
Students will create a comic to demonstrate how two authors present different information about the same topic.
Students will create a comic to demonstrate their understanding of cause and effect from informational text.
Students will create a comic demonstrating their understanding of the main idea and details of a story.
Students will use the "I Used to Think/Now I Think" strategy to help them determine specific text evidence and infer information drawn from text. They will create a comic to demonstrate their understanding before and after reading.
Students will better understand the relationship between words by completing analogies.
Students will reflect on their independent reading selections and demonstrate their understanding of the texts by creating a comic reading log.
Students will deepen their understanding of current vocabulary terms by exploring antonyms.
Students will create a comic to demonstrate their understanding of a topic of their choice. They will conduct basic research for this project.
Students will learn about prepositions and create a comic to demonstrate the use of prepositions in sentences.
Students will learn about progressive verb tenses and create a comic to demonstrate their understanding of progressive verb tenses.
Students will learn about homographs and create their own comics to illustrate common homographs.
Students will use the "See, Think, Wonder" strategy to help them better understand scientific information or text. They’ll demonstrate their understanding in a comic.
Students will analyze multisyllabic words in context to determine the meaning, syllables, and word parts.
Students will create a comic expressing an opinion with reasons to support the opinion.
Students will read an informational article and determine the central ideas of the text.
Students will learn about perfect verb tenses and create a comic to demonstrate their understanding of perfect verb tenses.
Students will examine a story to determine how the plot unfolds and how the characters change based on the plot.
Students will conduct a short research project about a topic. Students will create a comic to demonstrate their understanding of the researched topic of their choice.
Students will learn about subjective, objective, and possessive pronouns. They will create a comic to demonstrate properly using pronouns in writing.
Students will make connections between fictional texts by creating a visual presentation.
Students will determine and clarify unknown vocabulary words by creating a comic version of the Frayer Model.
Students will analyze how an author develops and contrasts points of views of characters in a text.
Students will learn to better comprehend and check their understanding of nonfiction text by asking reflective questions. They will create a comic to demonstrate their understanding and personal connection to the content in a social studies text.
Students will learn about first and third person points of view by narrating comics of their own.