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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Alter Egos and More with Avi's "Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?"
   After reading Avi's novel "Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?", students create an alter ego for themselves and use it to write their own radio show, modeled after the book.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Report Alternative: Examining Story Elements Using Story Map Comic Strips
   Comic frames are traditionally used to illustrate a story in a short, concise format. In this lesson, students use a six-paneled comic strip frame to create a story map, summarizing a book or story that they've read. Each panel retells a particular detail or explains a literary element (such as setting or character) from the story.
   
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 4
   Edward Stratemeyer, creator of book series such as Nancy Drew, was born on this day in 1862.
   Students select several books from one of Stratemeyer's series to read, discuss shared elements in the books, and use the 3-Circle Venn Diagram to compare story elements.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Engaging Students in a Collaborative Exploration of the Gettysburg Address
   In small groups, students closely examine one sentence from the Gettysburg Address and create a multigenre project communicating what they have discovered about the meaning and significance of the text.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Fairy Tales from Life
   Picture books provide the basis for an analysis of fairy tale elements before students write their own original tales.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Flying to Freedom: Tar Beach and The People Could Fly
   Students look to the past and use historical context to compare and contrast two characters from folktales.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan
   Get the Reel Scoop: Comparing Books to Movies
   Students compare a book to its film adaptation, and then perform readers theater of a scene from the book that they feel was not well represented in the movie version.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Leading to Great Places in the Elementary Classroom
   Students examine great leads in children's literature before writing or revising a lead in their own writing.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Literature Circles: Getting Started
   Students practice different ways of collaborating to read a work of literature. They work in different roles as they compose and answer questions, discover new vocabulary, and examine literary elements.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Playing with Prepositions through Poetry
    Students play with and explore prepositions during a whole group reading of Ruth Heller's Behind the Mask, and then by composing and publishing prepositional poems based on the book's style.

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