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1. 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.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring World Cultures Through Folk Tales
   Journey around the world with students as they read a Japanese, African, or Welsh folk tale, create a visual depiction of the tale, research the tale's culture, and present findings.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Flying to Freedom: Tar Beach and The People Could Fly
   Students look to the past and use historical context to compare and contrast two characters from folktales.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Literature as a Catalyst for Social Action: Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges
   Students are invited to confront and discuss issues of injustice and intolerance in response to reading a variety of fiction and nonfiction texts.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using Historical Fiction to Learn About the Civil War
   Students in grades 4 and 5 discuss inferential comprehension and visualization as they use a think-aloud questioning strategy to develop a deeper understanding of a historical novel.