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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Report Alternative: Glog That Book!
   In this alternative book report, students identify the elements of fiction in books they have read by creating glogs, interactive multimedia posters, and then share their glogs.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Collaborating, Writing, Linking: Using Wikis to Tell Stories Online
   Students become online authors in this lesson in which they write and post a short story using wiki technology.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creating Character Blogs
   Students view examples of blogs, learn the basic elements of blog creation, and then create a blog from the perspective of a fictional character.
4. 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.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Plot Structure: A Literary Elements Mini-Lesson
   Students learn that the plot structure described by Freytag's Pyramid is actually quite familiar as they diagram the plots of a familiar story, a television show, and a narrative poem.
6. 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.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Thoughtful Threads: Sparking Rich Online Discussions
   Today's students love chatting online with friends. This lesson combines that love with literature. Students form literature circles and have meaningful online discussions about a literary work.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   You Know the Movie is Coming—Now What?
   In this lesson, students read a literary text with the eye of a director, selecting scenes from the text and putting a cinematic spin on them.