Sort by: Alphabetical Most Viewed Newest

1. Professional Development | November 19–22, 2020
   2020 NCTE Annual Convention
   This fall, when we come together in Denver, let’s read, write, speak, listen, and view with curiosity. Together, we will be a confluencia of our songs.
2. Professional Development | Grades   3 – 5  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
   Acting Out: Literature, Drama, and Connecting With History
   The article includes recommendations for teachers interested in integrating literature, drama, and history.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Genre Study of Letters With The Jolly Postman
   Students read The Jolly Postman, in which a postman delivers letters to storybook characters. They explore different types of mail and categorize letters from the book and their own mail.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Alter Egos and More with Avi's "Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?"
   After reading Avi's novel "Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?", students create an alter ego for themselves and use it to write their own radio show, modeled after the book.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 5
   Annual fence-painting contests take place in Hannibal, Missouri.
   A scene from one of Twain's works is chosen and students map the story setting using the Story Map. Setting is then discussed as a class.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Authoring an Epilogue That Helps Our Characters Live On
   This lesson uses One Green Apple by Eve Bunting to teach how characters change across a text. It will also guide students through writing an epilogue to accompany their independent book.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  April 28
   Author Lois Duncan was born on this date in 1934.
   Mysteries are shared with students for them to solve and brainstorm the attributes of a good mystery. Small groups then compose short mysteries using the Mystery Cube.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Organizing & Summarizing
   Bio Cube
   Bio Cube is a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person for a biography or autobiography.
9. 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.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Book Clubs: Reading for Fun
    This lesson describes how small groups of students can plan meetings to discuss what they've read in a "just for fun" book club they've organized—and that they control.

page |  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10