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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Report Alternative: Examining Story Elements Using Story Map Comic Strips
   Comic frames are traditionally used to illustrate a story in a short, concise format. In this lesson, students use a six-paneled comic strip frame to create a story map, summarizing a book or story that they've read. Each panel retells a particular detail or explains a literary element (such as setting or character) from the story.
   
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 16
   Dictionary author Noah Webster was born in 1758.
   Students play a variation of the game Balderdash to practice vocabulary.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Engaging Students in a Collaborative Exploration of the Gettysburg Address
   In small groups, students closely examine one sentence from the Gettysburg Address and create a multigenre project communicating what they have discovered about the meaning and significance of the text.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 1
   Get ready for National Bullying Prevention Month!
   Students create a poster to enter into a poster contest that educates others about issues surrounding bullying.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan
   Get the Reel Scoop: Comparing Books to Movies
   Students compare a book to its film adaptation, and then perform readers theater of a scene from the book that they feel was not well represented in the movie version.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  October 14
   Kodak was issued a film patent on October 14, 1884.
   Students create a scrapbook of their favorite pieces throughout the year and present it to parents at an end-of-year party.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Playing with Prepositions through Poetry
   Students play with and explore prepositions during a whole group reading of Ruth Heller's Behind the Mask, and then by composing and publishing prepositional poems based on the book's style.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Spelling Cheerleading: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations
   "2-4-6-8, students will be spelling great" in this lesson that teaches the y rule for adding suffixes through cheering the spelling of words aloud, word sorts, and writing stories.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Zines for Kids: Multigenre Texts About Media Icons
   Special edition! Students use ReadWriteThink tools to create magazines about prominent figures using a variety of writing genres and styles.