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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Report Alternative: Creating a Childhood for a Character
   Students explore familiar literary characters, usually first encountered as adults, but whose childhood stories are only told later. Students then create childhoods for adult characters from books of their choice.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Report Alternative: Summary, Symbol, and Analysis in Bookmarks
   Students make bookmarks on computers and share their ideas with other readers at their school, while practicing summarizing, recognizing symbols, and writing reviews—all for an authentic audience.
3. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Creative Writing Through Wordless Picture Books
   Students are exposed to wordless picture books and begin developing story lines, both orally and in writing, using an online, interactive story map.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Picture Books as Framing Texts: Research Paper Strategies for Struggling Writers
   Students use picture books as framing texts for research, freeing them from the language of encyclopedia sources and allowing them to focus their attention on the content of their papers.