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1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Comparing Electronic and Print Texts About the Civil War Soldier
   Which side will win as students investigate both sides of the battle of using print versus online text for research as they learn about the lives of Civil War soldiers?
   
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Cut up, Cover up, and Come Away with Ideas for Writing!
   Students rework their forgotten/abandoned drafts by cutting and covering up selected words. By creatively manipulating text, they explore portal writing, a strategy for envisioning a new story or story direction.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Songs of Our Lives: Using Lyrics to Write Stories
   Students learn about the life and music of John Lennon, write a short story from their lives integrating lyrics from some of their favorite songs, and create a class book of stories.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 9  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Mysteries of Harris Burdick: Using Illustrations to Guide Writing
   Students use illustrations from The Mysteries of Harris Burdick as a guide to write mysteries
   and then present their stories to the class for students to discuss to which illustration each
   story corresponds.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Timelines and Texts: Motivating Students to Read Nonfiction
   In an effort to help motivate students to read nonfiction, students are challenged to use a timeline to help them name the year when certain products were invented.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using THIEVES to Preview Nonfiction Texts
   Students become "thieves" in this lesson as they use a previewing strategy to "steal" information from textbooks and other nonfiction texts before actually reading them.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   When I Was Young In...A Literature to Language Experience
   Past meets present in this lesson in which students practice verb tense when they write personal short stories that they then publish in a flip book.