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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 4  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   All About Our Town: Using Brochures to Teach Informational Writing
   Students explore their towns' landmarks, symbols, and people; look at brochures and other informational tools; practice writing for a specific audience and revising; and work collaboratively to create a brochure.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Astronomy Poetry: Combining Poetry With the Content Areas
   Students' responses to this lesson will be out of this world after they've researched astronomy to write poetry and compile a poetry book.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Author Study: Improving Reading Comprehension Using Inference and Comparison
   "Reading between the lines" can be as crucial to comprehension as understanding the words on the page. Through guided author studies, students experience the benefits and the limitations of inference.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Behind the Masks: Exploring Culture Through Art and Poetry
   Students research mask-making from various cultures, highlight the masks' connections to cultural practices, compose poetry to reveal their understanding, analyze their own culture, and create personal masks and poetry.
   
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Behind the Scenes With Cinderella
   Cinderella without castles, coaches, or ball gowns? Students use versions of Cinderella to explore how the setting of a story—time, place, and culture—affects the characters and plot.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Beyond the Story: A Dickens of a Party
   Students attend a 19th Century Victorian party to celebrate Scrooge's new outlook on life. They research characters from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and assume those personas for the party.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Biography Project: Research and Class Presentation
   Classroom biography study offers high-interest reading with a purpose, as students begin with inquiry and research, summarize and organize their information, and prepare oral presentations to share with the class.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Book Reviews, Annotation, and Web Technology
   Students work in groups to create annotated book reviews with links to topics of interest related to their book.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Brochures: Writing for Audience and Purpose
   Students create brochures on the same topic as another piece of writing they have done, highlighting how shifting purposes and audiences creates changes in their strategies as writers.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Campaigning for Fair Use: Public Service Announcements on Copyright Awareness
    Students explore a range of resources on fair use and copyright then design their own audio public service announcements (PSAs), to be broadcast over the school's public address system.

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