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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Report Alternative: Examining Story Elements Using Story Map Comic Strips
   Comic frames are traditionally used to illustrate a story in a short, concise format. In this lesson, students use a six-paneled comic strip frame to create a story map, summarizing a book or story that they've read. Each panel retells a particular detail or explains a literary element (such as setting or character) from the story.
   
2. 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.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Fairy Tales from Life
   Picture books provide the basis for an analysis of fairy tale elements before students write their own original tales.
4. 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.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan
   Get the Reel Scoop: Comparing Books to Movies
   Students compare a book to its film adaptation, and then perform readers theater of a scene from the book that they feel was not well represented in the movie version.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Leading to Great Places in the Elementary Classroom
   Students examine great leads in children's literature before writing or revising a lead in their own writing.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Literature Circles: Getting Started
   Students practice different ways of collaborating to read a work of literature. They work in different roles as they compose and answer questions, discover new vocabulary, and examine literary elements.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Playing with Prepositions through Poetry
   Students play with and explore prepositions during a whole group reading of Ruth Heller's Behind the Mask, and then by composing and publishing prepositional poems based on the book's style.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Poetry: A Feast to Form Fluent Readers
   Students improve their reading fluency by selecting a poem online to perform in class.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Writing and Assessing an Autobiographical Incident
    Students build upon their knowledge of biographies to write their own autobiographical incident. After going through a process of revision, they use a rubric to assess their work.