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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   American Folklore: A Jigsaw Character Study
   Groups of students read and discuss American folklore stories, each group reading a different story. Using a jigsaw strategy, the groups compare character traits and main plot points of the stories. A diverse selection of American folk tales is used for this lesson, which is adaptable to any text set.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words: From Image to Detailed Narrative
   The old cliche, "A picture is worth a thousand words" is put to the test when students write their own narrative interpretations of events shown in an image.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Authentic Writing Experiences and Math Problem-Solving Using Shopping Lists
   Students use their emerging writing skills to write shopping lists. They work within a budget, use problem-solving skills to create lists, and buy their favorite treats at the class store.
4. 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.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Combining Read-Alouds With Economics in the Primary Grades
   Students learn that what you read in books can really add up when they analyze literary texts for economic concepts.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Connect With Low-Literate Families: A Three-Tiered Approach
   Parents and caregivers take a page from the teacher's book when they listen to students' take-home poems or stories and discuss the ideas within.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Cut up, Cover up, and Come Away with Ideas for Writing!
   Students rework their forgotten/abandoned drafts by cutting and covering up selected words. By creatively manipulating text, they explore portal writing, a strategy for envisioning a new story or story direction.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exchanging Ideas by Sharing Journals: Interactive Response in the Classroom
   Pairs of students respond to literature alternately in shared journals. Mini-lessons are presented on responding to prompts, creating dialogue, adding drawings, and asking and answering questions.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring a Teen's World: Learning SAT Vocabulary Through Drama
   Students use SAT vocabulary to create and film a screenplay. They perform all roles, from writing through filming, resulting in a resource for their classmates.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Exploring Compare and Contrast Structure in Expository Texts
    Students build their understanding of the terms compare and contrast by participating in class discussions, using Internet resources, working collaboratively, and by visually representing information in a Venn diagram.

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