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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   6 – 12  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Report Alternative: Rewind the Plot!
   In this alternative to the traditional book report, students report on their novel choices by rewinding the plot.
3. 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.
4. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Choose Your Own Adventure: A Hypertext Writing Experience
   Students analyze "choose your own adventure" stories and brainstorm to develop setting, characters, and plots for their own adventures stories and related Websites.
   
5. 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.
6. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
   Developing Story Structure With Paper-Bag Skits
   Lights, camera, action, and a bit of mystery! In this lesson, students use mystery props in a skit bag to create and perform in short, impromptu skits.
7. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Fantastic Characters: Analyzing and Creating Superheroes and Villains
   Students analyze characterization by creating their own superheroes or super-villains,
   complete with related gadgets and settings.
8. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Letters and Learning Genre
   Using their prior knowledge of books containing letters, students show their understanding of genre by rewriting a story and reflecting on how traditional stories differs from stories told in letters.
9. 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.
10. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Unit
    Thrills! Chills! Using Scary Stories to Motivate Students to Read
    Students examine story elements through teacher read-alouds and independent reading and then use reader-response journals and graphic organizers to prepare for the creation of their own scary stories.

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