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91. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
    Life's Journeys: Help Along the Way
    Tap into teen and preteen readers' interest in adolescent-mentor relationships with these recommendations!
    
92. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Lights, Camera, Action: Interviewing a Book Character
    Students get the inside scoop on a story when they create interview questions and answers for characters in the books they read.
93. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Literature as a Jumping Off Point for Nonfiction Inquiry
    Students use text sets to research a topic inspired by a fiction book they have read. A text set is a collection of multiple text genres with a single focus.
94. 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.
95. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Literature Circles with Primary Students Using Self-Selected Reading
    Students respond to self-selected books in journals, and talk about their books daily in small groups. The teacher guides students by offering suggestions and writing with them in dialogue journals.
96. 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.
97. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Activity & Project
    Make a Mystery Puzzle
    Have children explore the different parts of mystery writing by making a puzzle about a favorite book. They can then invent and write their own mysteries using the online Mystery Cube tool.
98. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
    Making Sense of Series Books in Young Adult Literature
    This episode offers insight into different kinds of series books followed by recommendations of truly memorable series and companion books that will hook teen readers and stand the test of time.
    
99. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Many Years Later: Responding to Gwendolyn Brooks' "We Real Cool"
    Students analyze the Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "We Real Cool" and then write about how the character's pool hall days might influence who the character becomes fifty years in the future.
100. 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.

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