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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Astronomy Poetry: Combining Poetry With the Content Areas
   Students' responses to this lesson will be out of this world after they've researched astronomy to write poetry and compile a poetry book.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Beyond the Story: A Dickens of a Party
   Students attend a 19th Century Victorian party to celebrate Scrooge's new outlook on life. They research characters from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and assume those personas for the party.
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   4 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Guided Comprehension: Making Connections Using a Double-Entry Journal
   Based on the Guided Comprehension Model by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson helps students learn three types of connections (text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world) using a double-entry journal.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Guided Comprehension: Monitoring Using the INSERT Technique
   Based on the Guided Comprehension Model developed by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson introduces students to the comprehension strategy of monitoring.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Guided Comprehension: Previewing Using an Anticipation Guide
   Based on the Guided Comprehension Model developed by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson introduces students to the comprehension strategy of previewing.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Guided Comprehension: Self-Questioning Using Question-Answer Relationships
   Guided comprehension moves your students beyond decoding to become independent readers. Generating questions to guide reading helps readers make connections with the text and supports independent comprehension of new texts.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Guided Comprehension: Summarizing Using the QuIP Strategy
   Students learn to use the QuIP (questions into paragraphs) comprehension strategy to organize information and then synthesize it in writing.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Guided Comprehension: Visualizing Using the Sketch-to-Stretch Strategy
   Guided comprehension moves your middle-grade students beyond decoding to become successful, independent readers. The sketch-to-stretch strategy encourages students to use "brain TV" to help them understand a text through visualization.
10. Professional Development | Grades   6 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Teaching Reading with YA Literature: Complex Texts, Complex Lives
    This book is designed to help teachers develop their own version of YA pedagogy and a vision for teaching YA lit in the middle and secondary classroom.

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