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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Critical Discussion of Social Issues
   Through a series of picture book read-alouds, students engage in critical discussion of complex issues of race, class, and gender.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Color of Silence: Sensory Imagery in Pat Mora's Poem "Echoes"
   Pat Mora's poem "Echoes" demonstrates that our senses are powerful tools for literary analysis and comprehension as students use their senses to discover new ways to read and write.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Compare and Contrast Electronic Text With Traditionally Printed Text
   Students become familiar with the similarities and differences between electronic and printed text by comparing the textual aids included in a textbook with those of an educational website.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Critical Media Literacy: Commercial Advertising
   By looking at advertising and mass media critically, students begin to understand how the media oppresses certain groups, convinces people to purchase certain products, and influences culture.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Critical Media Literacy: TV Programs
   By critically analyzing popular television programs, students develop an awareness of the messages that are portrayed through the media.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Crit Lit for Kids: From Critical Consciousness to Service Learning
   Students take their ideas from the classroom page to the community pavement when they participate in a service-learning project based on their multimedia presentations.
   
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Everyone Loves a Mystery: A Genre Study
   Students track the elements of mystery stories through Directed Learning-Thinking Activities, story maps, and puzzles. Then they offer clues for other readers as they plan and write original mystery stories.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Every Punctuation Mark Matters: A Minilesson on Semicolons
   Students analyze stylistic choices and grammar use in authentic writing, focusing on the use of the semicolon in Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail."
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Exploring Author's Voice Using Jane Addams Award-Winning Books
   History has many faces in this lesson in which students read Jane Addams Award-winning books to learn about peace, social justice, world community, and equality.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Improve Comprehension: A Word Game Using Root Words and Affixes
    Students study common root words and affixes, improve their comprehension and spelling, and make a card game in which they form words with a prefix, root word, and suffix.

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