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31. 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.
32. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Book Report Alternative: Creating a Childhood for a Character
    Students explore familiar literary characters, usually first encountered as adults, but whose childhood stories are only told later. Students then create childhoods for adult characters from books of their choice.
33. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Book Reviews, Annotation, and Web Technology
    Students work in groups to create annotated book reviews with links to topics of interest related to their book.
34. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Boys Read: Considering Courage in Novels
    In this lesson designed especially for boys, students read a work of realistic fiction and get to know courageous male characters through writing, Internet activities, and discussion.
35. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 12  |  Strategy Guide
    Brainstorming and Reviewing Using the Carousel Strategy
    This strategy guide introduces Carousel Brainstorming, also known as Rotating Review, and offers suggestions to implement this technique in your classroom for brainstorming about new topics or reviewing learned information.
36. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Critical Discussion of Social Issues
    Through a series of picture book read-alouds, students engage in critical discussion of complex issues of race, class, and gender.
37. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 10  |  Calendar Activity  |  June 15
    Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall series, was born in 1939.
    After students have read one of Brian Jacques' Redwall stories, a class newspaper is created based on the story.
38. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Bright Morning: Exploring Character Development in Fiction
    Students work as a class to explore a character in a book they have read by identifying traits and finding textual references to support their choices.
39. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Bringing Economic Vocabulary to Life Through Video Posters
    Imagine if vocabulary could come alive with the click of a button! Students create video posters to demonstrate knowledge of new economics vocabulary.
40. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Buzz! Whiz! Bang! Using Comic Books to Teach Onomatopoeia
    This lesson is sure to sizzle, not fizzle, as students use comic strips to find onomatopoetic words, develop a vocabulary list from the words, and discuss why writers use onomatopoeia.

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