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61. Professional Development | Grades   5 – 9  |  Professional Library  |  Journal
    Peek, Peak, Pique: Using Homophones to Teach Vocabulary (and Spelling!)
    Argues that regular homophone practice enhances vocabulary knowledge, spelling skills, pronunciation ability, and overall reading proficiency. Describes how card games played with decks of homophones helped to accomplish these things. Notes particular benefits of homophone games to ESL students, and outlines key advantages of using the games.
62. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Persuasive Techniques in Advertising
    Students will be introduced to persuasive techniques used in advertising, analyze advertising, and explore the concepts of demographics, marketing for a specific audience, and dynamic advertising.
63. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading
    Teach your students about sentence structure, rhyming words, sight words, vocabulary, and print concepts using a weekly poem.
64. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 2  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Predicting and Gathering Information With Nonfiction Texts
    Students take a walk on the wild side when they develop an understanding of nonfiction texts with hands-on experiences and intense analysis.
65. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Preparing a Character for a New Job: Character Analysis through Job Placement
    Working as career counselors for a literary character, students find a job for the character, prepare a resume, and design questions and answers to prepare them for a job interview.
66. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    Promoting Diversity in the Classroom and School Library through Social Action
    Students explore the effects of stereotypes by analyzing children's books. Then they create bookmarks that encourage readers to question the assumptions of stereotyped books and to seek out matching, balanced texts.
67. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    QARs + Tables = Successful Comprehension of Math Word Problems
    Using census data for an example, students use the question-answer relationship (QAR) strategy to understand and solve word problems that refer to tables and other graphics.
68. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Question and Answer Books--From Genre Study to Report Writing
    After exploring several question and answer books on a variety of topics, students research a topic and create their own class question and answer book.
69. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 25
    Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in 1803.
    Students visit a quotation attributed to Emerson and identify the definition of success. Students then use the Postcard Creator to write a note to a person that they feel is successful.
70. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  May 18
    Raymond Carver was inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1988.
    Students identify characteristics of Carver's work and compare them to other authors, as well as to literary minimalism. Students then write original poems or short stories in minimalist style.

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