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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Author Study: Improving Reading Comprehension Using Inference and Comparison
   "Reading between the lines" can be as crucial to comprehension as understanding the words on the page. Through guided author studies, students experience the benefits and the limitations of inference.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Book Clubs: Reading for Fun
   This lesson describes how small groups of students can plan meetings to discuss what they've read in a "just for fun" book club they've organized—and that they control.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Heroes Are Made of This: Studying the Character of Heroes
   Designed to explore the hero and the heroic in literature, this unit asks students to discuss their ideas of heroism and analyze heroes in literature.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Identifying and Classifying Verbs in Context
   The interactive read-aloud in this lesson helps students to identify and classify the three verb types—action, state-of-being or linking, and helping verbs.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Literary Scrapbooks Online: An Electronic Reader-Response Project
   Students capture scraps of information from a variety of Web resources and use them to create an electronic scrapbook. Emphasis is placed on evaluating and citing resources.
6. 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.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Recording Readers Theatre: Developing Comprehension and Fluency With Audio Texts
   Students investigate audio texts of mystery stories, evaluate them in terms of both literary and audio qualities, and create Readers Theatre scripts, which they use to record their own podcasts.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 6  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Using Children's Literature to Develop Classroom Community
   Conversation and cooperation bring out the best in students when they hold dialogues about their individual strengths, abilities, and talents.
   
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   9 – 12  |  Lesson Plan
   What Did They Say? Dialect in The Color Purple
   Y'all set down a spell and learn ‘bout dialects!" In other words, your students will use The Color Purple to explore dialect and how it reveals information about the characters.