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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Action Is Character: Exploring Character Traits with Adjectives
   Students must "become" a character in a novel in order to describe themselves and other characters using powerful adjectives.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Enchanting Readers with Revisionist Fairy Tales
   Students examine three examples of revisionist fairy tales in which female characters act in empowered roles rather than behaving helpless and submissive.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Change through Allegory and Poetry
   Students read an example of allegory, review literary concepts, complete literary elements maps and plot diagrams, create a pictorial allegory, and write diamante poems related to the theme of change.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Friendship With Bridge to Terabithia
   Students make predictions about Bridge to Terabithia and its characters, complete character studies, and relate the characters' experiences to their own as they identify ways to make and keep friends.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Give Them a Hand: Promoting Positive Interaction in Literature Circles
   Students circle their desks as they analyze their own participation within a small group discussion.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Making Personal and Cultural Connections Using A Girl Named Disaster
   Struggling to survive is one of the many themes explored in A Girl Named Disaster. As students read, they look for connections between themselves and the main character, Nhamo.
   
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   On a Musical Note: Exploring Reading Strategies by Creating a Soundtrack
   Students create a soundtrack for a novel that they have read, as they engage in such traditional reading strategies as predicting, visualizing, and questioning.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Teaching Voice with Anthony Browne's Voices in the Park
   Students analyze Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne to determine how an author keeps an audience interested by creating voice and to applying that knowledge to their own writing.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Texting a Response to Lord of the Flies
   Students use Lord of the Flies to explore communication styles and techniques by writing text messages from one of the novel's characters to an imagined audience off the island.