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21. 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.
22. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    A Musical Prompt: Postcards From the Concert
    Students won't miss a beat in this musical lesson that combines listening with personal response on a postcard.
23. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Analyzing First-Person Narration in Sharon Draper's Out of My Mind
    Students explore the different facets of complexity in the compelling first-person narrator in Sharon Draper's Out of My Mind.
24. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Analyzing How Narrative Structure Generates Empathy in Wonder
    This lesson builds students' understanding of empathy by defining key terms and comparing responses to characters when they are introduced by someone else, and then when they narrate the story themselves.
25. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  June 12
    Anne Frank received her famous diary in 1942.
    Students learn about eyewitness reports through a lesson that is grade-level appropriate. Then, groups use primary source documents and research an event using eyewitness accounts.
26. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  July 5
    Annual fence-painting contests take place in Hannibal, Missouri.
    A scene from one of Twain's works is chosen and students map the story setting using the Story Map. Setting is then discussed as a class.
27. 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.
28. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    A Portrait of Our World: Making Connections and Developing Comprehension
    Students engage in carousel walks, character analyses, global explorations, and genre studies while using valuable language arts strategies to build higher-level comprehension skills.
29. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Applying Question-Answer Relationships to Pictures
    A picture is worth a thousand words as students are guided in viewing wordless picture books and responding to four different types of questions about the images they see.
30. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    A Prereading Strategy: Using the Vocabulary, Language, Prediction (VLP) Approach
    Students learn content area vocabulary and increase reading comprehension using the Vocabulary, Language, Prediction (VLP) approach.

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