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31. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Sí, Se Puede: Making a Difference, One Letter at a Time
    After reading the book ¡Si, Se Puede!/Yes, We Can!: Janitor Strike in L.A., students learn about labor unions, strikes, and organizing for change. Students interview staff members in their school to learn about their daily work life, and write persuasive advocacy letters.
32. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Supporting Vocabulary Development with EASE
    This lesson allows teachers to enrich students' oral and written vocabulary using the EASE sequence of instruction: Enunciate, Associate, Synthesize, and Emphasize the words you want students to use.
33. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Teaching the Epic through Ghost Stories
    In this lesson, students connect to the oral tradition of epic storytellers by sharing their own oral tales of ghosts and goblins and monsters.
34. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
    Tell Me Your Story: Video-Inspired Vocabulary Writing
    Students watch a sample of artistic video clips online and respond through creative writing while using the vocabulary words they are currently studying.
35. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    That's Not Fair! Examining Civil Liberties With the U.S. Supreme Court
    Students have the right to have fun in this lesson in which they create a PowerPoint presentation about civil rights and the Supreme Court.
36. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    The Magnetism of Language: Parts of Speech, Poetry, and Word Play
    What wonderful ways words work! The parts of speech are the highlight of this lesson in which students identify parts of speech in a nonsensical poem and then create their own wild and wacky rhymes.
37. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    The Passion of Punctuation
    Using published writers' texts and students' own writing, this unit explores emotions that are associated with the artful and deliberate use of commas, semicolons, colons, and exclamation points (end-stop marks of punctuation).
38. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Using Children's Natural Curiosity to Lead to Descriptive Writing
    Inspired by the book It Begins with an A, kindergarten students are invited to turn their curiosity and guesswork into a class book, complete with illustrated objects and descriptive language
39. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Using Folk Tales: Vowel Influences on the Letter G
    Gentle, gigantic, graceful—do these g words describe the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk? Students will explore the hard and soft g sounds by studying fairy tales and animals.
40. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Using Pictures to Build Schema for Social Studies Content
    How do you read an image? Students find out in this lesson in which they "read" several images of the Boston Massacre to better understand the event and recognize effects of propaganda.

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