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1. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Book Report Alternative: Hooking a Reader with a Book Cover
   Students select a book to read based only on its cover art. After reading the book, they use an interactive tool to create a new cover for it.
2. Classroom Resources | Grades   6 – 8  |  Lesson Plan  |  Standard Lesson
   Comparing and Contrasting: Picturing an Organizational Pattern
   Using picture books as mentor texts, students learn effective strategies for organizing information that compares and contrasts. Students can then apply appropriate organizational strategies to their own papers.
3. Professional Development | Grades   8 – 12  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Langston Hughes in the Classroom: "Do Nothin' till You Hear from Me"
   Carmaletta M. Williams provides high school teachers with background on Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance as well as help in teaching Hughes's poetry, short stories, novels, and autobiography.
4. 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.
5. Professional Development | Grades   K – 8  |  Professional Library  |  Book
   Teaching and Learning Multiliteracies: Changing Times, Changing Literacies
   This book shows you how to move away from reliance exclusively on print and incorporate multiliteracies into your classroom.