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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 4  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   All About Our Town: Using Brochures to Teach Informational Writing
   Students explore their towns' landmarks, symbols, and people; look at brochures and other informational tools; practice writing for a specific audience and revising; and work collaboratively to create a brochure.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Author Study: Improving Reading Comprehension Using Inference and Comparison
   "Reading between the lines" can be as crucial to comprehension as understanding the words on the page. Through guided author studies, students experience the benefits and the limitations of inference.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Behind the Scenes With Cinderella
   Cinderella without castles, coaches, or ball gowns? Students use versions of Cinderella to explore how the setting of a story—time, place, and culture—affects the characters and plot.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   History Comes Alive: Developing Fluency and Comprehension Using Social Studies
   Let the power of imagination and inference serve as a "time machine" to bring Benjamin Franklin into the classroom! History and science come to life in a dialogue with Franklin the inventor, developed through lesson activities that incorporate research, imagination, writing, visual arts, and drama.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 3  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Jazz Up Writing Workshop: Writing Biographies of African American Jazz Musicians
   During writing workshop, students research, write, revise, and share their own comprehensive biographies of African American jazz musicians.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Learning About Research and Writing Using the American Revolution
   Students across the board will get a kick out of researching a historical figure from the American Revolution to create an acrostic poem.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Literature as a Jumping Off Point for Nonfiction Inquiry
   Students use text sets to research a topic inspired by a fiction book they have read. A text set is a collection of multiple text genres with a single focus.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Question and Answer Books--From Genre Study to Report Writing
   After exploring several question and answer books on a variety of topics, students research a topic and create their own class question and answer book.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Searching for Gold: A Collaborative Inquiry Project
   Each small group of students researches one aspect of the same big topic, such as the Gold Rush, and teaches what they have learned to the rest of the class.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Storytelling in the Social Studies Classroom
    People make the past come alive as students research and then share stories about famous Americans who promoted democratic ideals.

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