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- Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Audio Broadcasts and Podcasts: Oral Storytelling and Dramatization
After exploring Orson Welles' 1938 broadcast of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds, students create their own audio dramatization of a text they have read. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Cover to Cover: Comparing Books to Movies
Students compare and analyze novels and the movies adapted from them. They design new DVD covers and a related insert for the movies, reflecting their response to the movie version. - Classroom Resources | Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Developing Story Structure With Paper-Bag Skits
Lights, camera, action, and a bit of mystery! In this lesson, students use mystery props in a skit bag to create and perform in short, impromptu skits. - Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Calendar Activity |  November 30
Jonathan Swift was born on this day in 1667.
Students explore satire and parody in television and film, advertising, and journalism and create a display that highlights their findings. - Classroom Resources | Grades 3 – 8 | Calendar Activity |  November 18
Mickey Mouse appeared in his first animated feature.
Students create a short, humorous story with at least one action character, and then use online tools to make a flipbook. - 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 K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
The Big Green Monster Teaches Phonics in Reading and Writing
A big green monster helps students build their reading fluency and word recognition skills through choral reading, literacy center activities, and writing stories. - Classroom Resources | Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Unit
The Children's Picture Book Project
In this lesson students evaluate published children's picture storybooks. Students then plan, write, illustrate, and publish their own children's picture books.