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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Report Alternative: The Elements of Fiction
   Students identify the elements of fiction in a book they have read and share summaries of them by writing and illustrating their own mini-book.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creative Outlining-From Freewriting to Formalizing
   After reading a short story, students use freewriting as a catalyst for a literary analysis essay.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Family Ties: Making Connections to Improve Reading Comprehension
   Families are all about connections between people. In this lesson, students read three books about different families and make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections to those texts.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Fishing for Readers: Identifying and Writing Effective Opening "Hooks"
   Good writers "hook" their readers in the very first sentences. In this lesson, students learn how to cast an attention-grabbing hook in their writing to effectively draw in readers' attention.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Imagine That! Playing with Genre through Newspapers and Short Stories
   Students identify genre characteristics for short stories and newspaper articles then practice both genres by turning a short story into a news article and an article into a short story.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Once Upon a Fairy Tale: Teaching Revision as a Concept
   Students use fractured fairy tales to practice revision and editing as separate activities when they write their own versions of fairy tales.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Travel Brochures: Highlighting the Setting of a Story
   Readers are often transported to the places mentioned in texts through words and descriptions. This lesson invites students to create travel brochures about the setting of texts they have read.