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- Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Creative Communication Frames: Discovering Similarities between Writing and Art
Graphic organizers assist the development of comparative vocabulary and generate discussions of analogy and metaphor in art as students go on a real or virtual tour of an art gallery. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Cultural Connections and Writing for Change
A little understanding can go a long way. After learning about difficulties that Palestinian youths face, students will write a letter to an official discussing these issues. - Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Designing Museum Exhibits for The Grapes of Wrath: A Multigenre Project
Using The Grapes of Wrath as a backdrop, students conduct research on issues that the novel addresses, publishing their findings in a multigenre museum exhibit. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Earth Verse: Using Science in Poetry
Students shape up their reading, writing, and listening skills in this lesson by creating original diamante, acrostic, and shape poems about science. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Engaging Students in a Collaborative Exploration of the Gettysburg Address
In small groups, students closely examine one sentence from the Gettysburg Address and create a multigenre project communicating what they have discovered about the meaning and significance of the text. - Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Exploring Setting: Constructing Character, Point of View, Atmosphere, and Theme
Students read texts by Dybek, Dickens, Poe, and Morrison to explore how authors use language to create setting and, in turn, how setting constructs other elements in a literary work. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Expository EscapadeDetective's Handbook
Students create a Detective's Handbook based on a detective mystery they have read. The handbooks include expository and descriptive writing, as well as a letter.
- Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Fairy Tales from Life
Picture books provide the basis for an analysis of fairy tale elements before students write their own original tales. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Flying to Freedom: Tar Beach and The People Could Fly
Students look to the past and use historical context to compare and contrast two characters from folktales. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Found Poems/Parallel Poems
Students compose found and parallel poems based on a descriptive passage they have chosen from a piece of literature they are reading.