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1. 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.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Report Alternative: Glog That Book!
   In this alternative book report, students identify the elements of fiction in books they have read by creating glogs, interactive multimedia posters, and then share their glogs.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Digitally Telling the Story of Greek Figures
   In this lesson students research Greek gods, heroes, and creatures and then share their findings through digital storytelling.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Exploring World Cultures Through Folk Tales
   Journey around the world with students as they read a Japanese, African, or Welsh folk tale, create a visual depiction of the tale, research the tale's culture, and present findings.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Flying to Freedom: Tar Beach and The People Could Fly
   Students look to the past and use historical context to compare and contrast two characters from folktales.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Sequencing: A Strategy to Succeed at Reading Comprehension
   Did Paul Bunyan gouge out the Grand Canyon before or after he dug the Great Lakes? Students create a life-sized timeline showing the sequence of events in this tall tale.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   K – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Spelling Cheerleading: Integrating Movement and Spelling Generalizations
   "2-4-6-8, students will be spelling great" in this lesson that teaches the y rule for adding suffixes through cheering the spelling of words aloud, word sorts, and writing stories.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Story Elements Alive!
   What's in a narrative? Students find out in this lesson in which they explore four narrative elements—setting, characters, problem/solution, and plot, through purpose-driven read-alouds and independent reading.
9. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 5  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   The Connection Between Poetry and Music
   Students won't miss a beat in this reading fluency lesson that combines music and poetry.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   5 – 9  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
    The Mysteries of Harris Burdick: Using Illustrations to Guide Writing
    Students use illustrations from The Mysteries of Harris Burdick as a guide to write mysteries
    and then present their stories to the class for students to discuss to which illustration each
    story corresponds.

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