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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Daily Book Boosts
   Book Boosts—one-minute raves at the end of independent reading time—are easy ways to suggest new titles to students, and they act as a way for students to have something to think about as they read.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Guided Comprehension: Evaluating Using the Meeting of the Minds Technique
   Based on the Guided Comprehension Model developed by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson introduces students to the strategy of evaluating, using the Meeting of the Minds technique.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Guided Comprehension: Knowing How Words Work Using Semantic Feature Analysis
   Based on the Guided Comprehension Model developed by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson introduces students to the comprehension strategy of knowing how words work.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  November 18
   Mickey Mouse appeared in his first animated feature.
   Students create a short, humorous story with at least one action character, and then use online tools to make a flipbook.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 7  |  Calendar Activity  |  November 21
   The Charlotte Huck Award for Outstanding Fiction for Children is announced today.
   Students read and discuss an award-winning book before writing their own story that demonstrates compassion.
   
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using Historical Fiction to Learn About the Civil War
   Students in grades 4 and 5 discuss inferential comprehension and visualization as they use a think-aloud questioning strategy to develop a deeper understanding of a historical novel.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using Snowflake Bentley as a Framing Text for Multigenre Writing
   Using Snowflake Bentley as a model, students create a working definition of multigenre text and then use that definition to create their own multigenre piece about winter or another theme.