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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Report Alternative: Hooking a Reader with a Book Cover
   Students select a book to read based only on its cover art. After reading the book, they use an interactive tool to create a new cover for it.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 10  |  Calendar Activity  |  June 15
   Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall series, was born in 1939.
   After students have read one of Brian Jacques' Redwall stories, a class newspaper is created based on the story.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 8  |  Calendar Activity  |  June 6
   Celebrate Cynthia Rylant's birthday!
   Students work in small groups or as a class to map the plot of a selected Cynthia Rylant story and create original literary works using the plot diagrams.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creating Character Blogs
   Students view examples of blogs, learn the basic elements of blog creation, and then create a blog from the perspective of a fictional character.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  June 18
   Today is Chris Van Allsburg's birthday.
   Students explore varying points of view, one of Van Allsburg's common themes, by rewriting a traditional story.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   You Know the Movie is Coming—Now What?
   In this lesson, students read a literary text with the eye of a director, selecting scenes from the text and putting a cinematic spin on them.