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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Boars and Baseball: Making Connections
   In this lesson, students will make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Report Alternative: Character and Author Business Cards
   Students respond to a book they have read by thinking symbolically to create a business card for one of the characters.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Report Alternative: Comic Strips and Cartoon Squares
   Students must think critically to create comic strips highlighting six important scenes from a book they have read.
4. 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.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Report Alternative: Rewind the Plot!
   In this alternative to the traditional book report, students report on their novel choices by rewinding the plot.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Doodle Splash: Using Graphics to Discuss Literature
   Students keep a doodle journal while reading short stories by a common author. In small groups, students then combine their doodles into a graphic representation of the text.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Fantastic Characters: Analyzing and Creating Superheroes and Villains
   Students analyze characterization by creating their own superheroes or super-villains,
   complete with related gadgets and settings.
8. 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.
   
9. 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.
10. 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.

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