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- Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Reading and Writing Workshop: Freak the Mighty
Students use a variety of reading and writing strategies as they read Rodman Philbrick's Freak the Mighty.
- Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Recurring Lesson
Show-Me Sentences
This lesson teaches students how to revise dull "telling" sentences into vivid, descriptive "showing" sentences. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Solving Word Meanings: Engaging Strategies for Vocabulary Development
Vocabulary gumshoes use context clues and semantics to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Story Character Homepage
Students analyze personal homepages, as well as a character in a book they have read, and then create a homepage for the character. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Teaching Voice with Anthony Browne's Voices in the Park
Students analyze Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne to determine how an author keeps an audience interested by creating voice and to applying that knowledge to their own writing. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Texting a Response to Lord of the Flies
Students use Lord of the Flies to explore communication styles and techniques by writing text messages from one of the novel's characters to an imagined audience off the island. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
The Big Bad Wolf: Analyzing Point of View in Texts
Was the Big Bad Wolf really all that bad? This lesson encourages students to analyze multiple viewpoints, view texts from different angles, and recognize gaps in narrative. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
The Big, Bad Wolf...Is This a Fact?
Reading is revamped in this lesson in which students use a multimedia approach to study the books by Seymour Simon. - Classroom Resources | Grades 5 – 9 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
The Mysteries of Harris Burdick: Using Illustrations to Guide Writing
Students use illustrations from The Mysteries of Harris Burdick as a guide to write mysteries
and then present their stories to the class for students to discuss to which illustration each
story corresponds. - Classroom Resources | Grades 5 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Thoughtful Threads: Sparking Rich Online Discussions
Today's students love chatting online with friends. This lesson combines that love with literature. Students form literature circles and have meaningful online discussions about a literary work.