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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   A-Z: Learning About the Alphabet Book Genre
   Students increase their understanding of alphabet books by participating in a variety of reading and writing activities.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Building a Learning Community: Crafting Rules for the Classroom
   Students will learn to mind their ps and qs in this lesson on etiquette and appropriate behavior in the classroom.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Digital Reflections: Expressing Understanding of Content Through Photography
   Striking images can leave lasting impressions on viewers. In this lesson, students make text–self–world connections to a nature- or science-related topic as they collaboratively design a multimedia presentation.
   
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Enchanting Readers with Revisionist Fairy Tales
   Students examine three examples of revisionist fairy tales in which female characters act in empowered roles rather than behaving helpless and submissive.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring Friendship With Bridge to Terabithia
   Students make predictions about Bridge to Terabithia and its characters, complete character studies, and relate the characters' experiences to their own as they identify ways to make and keep friends.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Is Superman Really All That Super? Critically Exploring Superheroes
   What makes a superhero super? By comparing popular culture superheroes with heroic characters in children's literature, students learn to think critically about character traits, and consider how cultural perspectives influence the kinds of heroes we choose.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   No Teachers Allowed: Student-Led Book Clubs Using QAR
   Students are introduced to the Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) strategy through a read-aloud and question sort. Students then use the strategy to develop questions for a peer-led book discussion.
8. Professional Development | Grades   7 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Reading in the Reel World: Teaching Documentaries and Other Nonfiction Texts
   John Golden offers middle and high school teachers a practical guide for using documentary film in the classroom to improve students' reading, writing, and thinking skills.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Taking Photos of Curious George: Exploring Character Through Images
   Students will be monkeying around in this lesson when they create a digital class book in which they imagine what Curious George would do if he visited their school.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    The ABCs of Poetry
    Students examine a letter of the alphabet from all angles, creating image pools of original metaphors that they then turn into poems.

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