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1. 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.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  January 1
   Annie Moore becomes the first immigrant to enter Ellis Island in 1892.
   Students explore online resources about Ellis Island, interview an immigrant in the area, and publish their stories.
3. 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.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 8  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing & Publishing Prose
   Book Cover Creator
   The Book Cover Creator is designed to allow users to type and illustrate front book covers, front and back covers, and full dust jackets. Students can use the tool to create new covers for books that they read as well as to create covers for books they write individually or as a class.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Report Alternative: Writing Resumes for Characters in Historical Fiction
   Students write resumes for historical fiction characters. They first explore help wanted ads to see what employers want, and then draft resumes for the characters they've chosen.
6. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Activity & Project
   Books Will Take You There!
   While enjoying a book that features a journey, children write postcards from the perspective of the main character for each stop along the trip.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Captioning the Civil Rights Movement: Reading the Images, Writing the Words
   Teachers guide students to carefully view images from the Civil Rights Movement and write captions that accurately describe the images and/or their probable purposes.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Cultural Connections and Writing for Change
   A little understanding can go a long way. After learning about difficulties that Palestinian youths face, students will write a letter to an official discussing these issues.
9. 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.
10. 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.

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