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11. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Investigating Names to Explore Personal History and Cultural Traditions
    Students investigate the meanings and origins of their names in order to establish their own personal histories and to explore the cultural significance of naming traditions.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Looking for the History in Historical Fiction: An Epidemic for Reading
    This lesson pairs the reading of historical fiction with nonfiction to introduce students to the large themes of history.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Pairing Fiction With Poetry and Performance
    Make connections across genres and across cultures to engage students in the study of literary voice and themes. Comprehension skills and vocabulary also come into play, especially for English language learners, as students read a novel and related poems, then write and perform original poems related to the novel.
19. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Propaganda Techniques in Literature and Online Political Ads
    Students analyze propaganda techniques used in pieces of literature and political advertisements. They then look for propaganda in other media, such as print ads and commercials.
20. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Q is for Duck: Using Alphabet Books With Struggling Writers
    A is for zoo? Q is for duck? The alphabet as students know it is transformed when students create a class book that contains clever associations for each letter of the alphabet.

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