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- Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
More than One Way to Create Vivid Verbs
This lesson teaches students how to use old verbs in a new way, thus creating new and fresh descriptive phrases. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 6 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Opening the Door for Reading: Sharing Favorite Texts to Build Community
In this lesson, students build classroom community by exploring environmental print and a teacher-created display that focuses on a favorite book. They then create and share their own presentations. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Minilesson
Peer Review: Narrative
This minilesson guides student in using the PQP techniquePraise–Question–Polishto offer concrete and useful peer review feedback. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Picture Books as Framing Texts: Research Paper Strategies for Struggling Writers
Students use picture books as framing texts for research, freeing them from the language of encyclopedia sources and allowing them to focus their attention on the content of their papers. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Play Ball! Encouraging Critical Thinking Through Baseball Questions
Cooperation and critical thinking are the name of the game as students use baseball facts they find online to create trivia questions for a class Jeopardy game. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Plot Structure: A Literary Elements Mini-Lesson
Students learn that the plot structure described by Freytag's Pyramid is actually quite familiar as they diagram the plots of a familiar story, a television show, and a narrative poem. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Reading and Analyzing Multigenre Texts
Students develop a definition of multigenre texts by exploring multigenre picture books. They brainstorm what it takes to read these texts successfully and discuss strategies needed to comprehend the texts. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Reciprocal Revision: Making Peer Feedback Meaningful
Interpreting art is a subjective process. In this lesson, students write written responses analyzing a work of art and use feedback from their peers to revise or confirm their initial responses. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Scaffolding Comprehension Strategies Using Graphic Organizers
Students learn collaborative strategic reading (CSR). During and after reading, students apply four reading strategiespreview, click and clunk, get the gist, and wrap-upand use graphic organizers for scaffolding. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Seeing Integration From Different Viewpoints
What does the world look like through someone else's eyes? Guide students in using colorful paper glasses to examine a story of school desegregation from multiple perspectives.