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21. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    A World of Readers: Libraries Around the World
    Bookworms will enjoy the bytes they find in this lesson as they research and share information about online library services in places around the world.
    
22. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Podcast Episode
    Being a YA Lit Advocate
    Tune in to hear about what it means to be a YA lit advocate and what YA advocacy work can look like. You'll learn strategies you can use to challenge misconceptions about YA lit. You'll also hear about a variety of fiction and nonfiction titles you can recommend to teen readers.
23. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan
    Beyond History Books: Researching With Twin Texts and Technology
    Students in grades 4–8 activate prior knowledge and research information about a historic event through fiction and nonfiction literature and exploration of relevant websites.
24. 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.
25. Parent & Afterschool Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Game & Tool
    Bio Cube
    The Bio Cube asks children to summarize information about a person for a biography or autobiography. The activity helps them learn how to identify and shorten key ideas.
26. 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.
27. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 10  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Blending the Past with Today's Technology: Using Prezi to Prepare for Historical Fiction
    To prepare for literature circles featuring historical novels, students research the decades of the 1930s to the 1990s and share their information using Prezi, a web application for creating multimedia presentations.
28. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Boars and Baseball: Making Connections
    In this lesson, students will make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text.
29. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 8  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing & Publishing Prose
    Book Cover Creator
    The Book Cover Creator is designed to allow users to type and illustrate front book covers, front and back covers, and full dust jackets. Students can use the tool to create new covers for books that they read as well as to create covers for books they write individually or as a class.
30. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    BOOKMATCH: Scaffolding Independent Book Selection
    This lesson will be turning heads and pages as students learn how to choose appropriate books for independent reading exercises and later evaluate their choices.

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