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71. 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.
72. 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.
73. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
    Peer Review: Narrative
    This minilesson guides student in using the PQP technique—Praise–Question–Polish—to offer concrete and useful peer review feedback.
74. 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.
75. 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.
76. 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.
77. 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.
78. 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.
79. 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 strategies—preview, click and clunk, get the gist, and wrap-up—and use graphic organizers for scaffolding.
80. 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.

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