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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Audience & Purpose: Evaluating Disney's Changes to the Hercules Myth
   What drives changes to classic myths and fables? In this lesson students evaluate the changes Disney made to the myth of "Hercules" in order to achieve their audience and purpose.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 8  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing & Publishing Prose
   Book Cover Creator
   The Book Cover Creator is designed to allow users to type and illustrate front book covers, front and back covers, and full dust jackets. Students can use the tool to create new covers for books that they read as well as to create covers for books they write individually or as a class.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing & Publishing Prose
   CD/DVD Cover Creator
   The CD/DVD Cover Creator allows users to type and illustrate CD and DVD covers and related booklets for liner notes and other information. Students can use the tool to create covers for books, music, and films that they explored as well as to create covers for media they compose individually or as a class.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Printout  |  Graphic Organizer
   Connection Web
   Students use this printout to expand on connections they have made to a text and use those details to write essays or create projects about the text.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Cover to Cover: Comparing Books to Movies
   Students compare and analyze novels and the movies adapted from them. They design new DVD covers and a related insert for the movies, reflecting their response to the movie version.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  February 3
   In 1927, Joan Lowery Nixon was born.
   As a class, a genre study of mysteries takes place and a chart is made about what makes a good mystery.
7. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   K – 6  |  Activity & Project
   Let the Show Begin! Literary Talent Show
   Children choose their favorite songs, dances, poems, or stories to act out in a talent show for friends and family.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Plotting a Plan to Improve Writing: Using Plot Scaffolds
   Students really get into character in this lesson as they act out the parts of a script and analyze character motivations and dialogue.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 8  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing & Publishing Prose
   Postcard Creator
   The Postcard Creator helps students learn to identify all the typical parts of a postcard, and then generate their own postcard messages by typing information into letter templates. After printing their texts, students can illustrate the front of their postcards in a variety of ways, including drawing, collage, and stickers.
10. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 9  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Power of Picture Books, The: Using Content Area Literature in Middle School
    Featuring descriptions and activities for fifty exceptional titles, Mary Jo Fresch and Peggy Harkins offer a wealth of ideas for harnessing the power of picture books to improve reading and writing in the content areas.

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