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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Assessing Cultural Relevance: Exploring Personal Connections to a Text
   As a class, students evaluate a nonfiction or realistic fiction text for its cultural relevance to themselves personally and as a group.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Comics in the Classroom as an Introduction to Narrative Structure
   This lesson uses comic strip frames to define plot and reinforce the structure that underlies a narrative. Students finish by writing their own original narratives.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Dear Librarian: Writing a Persuasive Letter
   Students write persuasive letters to their librarian requesting that specific texts be added to the school library. As they work, students plan their arguments and outline their reasons and examples.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Freedom of Speech and Automatic Language: Examining the Pledge of Allegiance
   This lesson has students explore freedom of speech by examining the Pledge of Allegiance from a historical and personal perspective and in relationship to fictional situations in novels.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  September 8
   Jon Scieszka was born in 1954.
   Students review Scieszka's tips for encouraging young people to read and then create their own, sharing ideas with adults in their community through a letter.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Literature Circle Roles Reframed: Reading as a Film Crew
   Capture students' enthusiasm for film and transfer it to reading and literature by substituting film production roles for the traditional literature circle roles.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Magazine Redux: An Exercise in Critical Literacy
   Paper and pixels get compared in this lesson in which students compare both printed and online versions of a magazine.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Mapping Characters Across Book Series
   Students work on a guided characterization project, using a graphic map to illustrate the ways a character from a book series grows and evolves over the course of the story.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Modeling Reading and Analysis Processes with the Works of Edgar Allan Poe
   Explore reading strategies using Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" and other works. Students read Poe's works in both large- and small-group readings then conclude with a variety of projects.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    When Less IS More—Understanding Minimalist Fiction
    This lesson pairs Ernest Hemingway's short story "Cat in the Rain' with Raymond Carver's "Little Things" to guide students to an understanding of the characteristics of minimalist fiction.