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31. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Examining Transcendentalism through Popular Culture
    Using excerpts from the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, comics, and songs from different musical genres, students examine the characteristics of transcendentalism.
32. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Family Ties: Making Connections to Improve Reading Comprehension
    Families are all about connections between people. In this lesson, students read three books about different families and make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections to those texts.
33. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Fishing for Readers: Identifying and Writing Effective Opening "Hooks"
    Good writers "hook" their readers in the very first sentences. In this lesson, students learn how to cast an attention-grabbing hook in their writing to effectively draw in readers' attention.
34. Classroom Resources | Grades   1 – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Giant Story Problems: Reading Comprehension through Math Problem-Solving
    Students create posters using images, text, and mathematical equations to represent a story problem.
35. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Girls Read: Online Literature Circles
    In this lesson designed especially for girls, students read a work of realistic fiction and get to know strong female protagonists through online literary circles and writing activities.
    
36. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Imagine That! Playing with Genre through Newspapers and Short Stories
    Students identify genre characteristics for short stories and newspaper articles then practice both genres by turning a short story into a news article and an article into a short story.
37. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Investigating Junk Mail: Negotiating Critical Literacy at the Mailbox
    Students increase their media literacy skills by critically examining and revising junk mail.
38. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Judging a Book by its Cover: The Art and Imagery of The Great Gatsby
    Students explore The Great Gatsby's allusion to art and its use of visual imagery and conclude their study by designing their own cover for the novel.
39. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Learning Clubs: Motivating Middle School Readers and Writers
    Students participate in learning clubs, select content area topics, and draw on texts—including websites, printed material, video, and music—to investigate their topics, and share their learning using similar media.
40. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
    Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing
    This collection of lesson plans will help prepare high school and college students for college-level writing.

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