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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Musical Prompt: Postcards From the Concert
   Students won't miss a beat in this musical lesson that combines listening with personal response on a postcard.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   A Race With Grace: Sports Poetry in Motion
   In this lesson, athletics, aesthetics, and poetics intersect in new ways as developing literacy learners experiment together with the forms of language.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Creating a Classroom Newspaper
   Students write authentic newspaper stories, including learning about various aspects of newspapers, such as writing an article, online articles, newspaper reading habits, and layout and design techniques.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Cultural Connections and Writing for Change
   A little understanding can go a long way. After learning about difficulties that Palestinian youths face, students will write a letter to an official discussing these issues.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   4 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Developing Searching, Skimming, and Scanning Skills With Internet Bingo
   Student pairs aim to be the first team to call out "bingo" in this lesson in which they use skimming and scanning to locate information about ancient Greece and Rome.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Gabbing About Garfield: Conversing About Texts With Comic Creator
   Students will definitely get animated as they discuss comics' features and designs, and they're sure to enjoy the lesson's punch line assignment: creating a comic strip of their own.
   
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Is Superman Really All That Super? Critically Exploring Superheroes
   What makes a superhero super? By comparing popular culture superheroes with heroic characters in children's literature, students learn to think critically about character traits, and consider how cultural perspectives influence the kinds of heroes we choose.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Minilesson
   Reading Movies and TV: Learning the "Language" of Moving-Image Texts
   Introduce students to the idea that movies and TV have their own language and grammar, which gives them special ways of telling their stories.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Sharing Favorite Books Using Interactive Character Trading Cards
   Using selected characters from a text of their choice, students put their literary analysis skills to work by creating fictional character trading cards.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Storytelling in the Social Studies Classroom
    People make the past come alive as students research and then share stories about famous Americans who promoted democratic ideals.

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