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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Report Alternative: Comic Strips and Cartoon Squares
   Students must think critically to create comic strips highlighting six important scenes from a book they have read.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Boys Read: Considering Courage in Novels
   In this lesson designed especially for boys, students read a work of realistic fiction and get to know courageous male characters through writing, Internet activities, and discussion.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 30
   Caldecott Medal-winner Virginia Lee Burton was born on this day in 1909.
   Students discuss similarities in Burton's illustrations and writing style in her many books, in addition to her use of personification.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Collaborating, Writing, Linking: Using Wikis to Tell Stories Online
   Students become online authors in this lesson in which they write and post a short story using wiki technology.
5. Classroom Resources | Grades   7 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 22
   Science-fiction author Ray Bradbury was born in 1920.
   Students do a Bradbury author study and then create flyers to advertise their favorite story using the ReadWriteThink Printing Press.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Solving Word Meanings: Engaging Strategies for Vocabulary Development
   Vocabulary gumshoes use context clues and semantics to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   3 – 12  |  Calendar Activity  |  August 12
   Walter Dean Myers, author of the Printz Award-winning novel Monster, was born in 1937.
   Students discuss how the form of a film script affects the story, why the author may have selected this writing style, and write a story using a similar format.