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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Analyzing How Narrative Structure Generates Empathy in Wonder
   This lesson builds students' understanding of empathy by defining key terms and comparing responses to characters when they are introduced by someone else, and then when they narrate the story themselves.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 7  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Boars and Baseball: Making Connections
   In this lesson, students will make text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections after reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson. After sharing and discussing connections, students choose and plan a project that makes a personal connection to the text.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   2 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Name Tag Glyphs
   In this lesson, students practice a way to communicate without words by using a glyph. They create a name card using information about themselves. Students also interpret glyphs made by others.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Promoting Cultural Values Through Alphabet Books
   C is for Culture in this lesson in which students research a culture different from their own and compile an alphabet book that showcases cultural symbols for each letter of the alphabet.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Using Word Storms to Explore Vocabulary and Encourage Critical Thinking
   Students learn that dogs are more than just pets in this lesson, which teaches them to use research and vocabulary-acquisition strategies to learn and write about working dogs.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Recurring Lesson
   Write-Talks: Students Discovering Real Writers, Real Audiences, Real Purposes
   There's a world of writers out there, and in this lesson students discover them as they listen to presentations from local writers and learn about what, why, and how they write in their day-to-day lives.