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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   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.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Designing Elements of Story in Little Blue and Little Yellow
   In this series of four lessons, students will explore key elements of design in Little Blue and
   Little Yellow to learn about setting, character relationships, and plot.
4. 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.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Investigating Junk Mail: Negotiating Critical Literacy at the Mailbox
   Students increase their media literacy skills by critically examining and revising junk mail.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Native Americans Today
   This lesson challenges students' views of Native Americans as a vanished people by asking them to compare their prior knowledge with information they gather while reading about contemporary Native Americans.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Voting! What's It All About?
   Students explore a variety of sources for information about voting. They evaluate the information to determine if it is fact or opinion, and then create a graffiti wall about voting.